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• Daria Kozlova at Congress of Young Scientists: Education vs Roblox and Twitch

  Nowadays, many entities contribute to education in IT. Universities collaborate with companies, big tech contributes to secondary and higher education, while school teachers turn to universities for additional knowledge. What’s the path from a school student to a middle-level developer? What skills are needed along the way? At the Congress of Young Scientists, Daria Kozlova, the director for strategic development at ITMO and director of education at Yandex, pointed towards the main topics in programming education. Discover them in this article.

  02.12.2024

• HeadHunter: Current Trends in IT Labor Market

  How much do IT specialists earn? Which IT specializations are currently in demand? Is it true that there is an excess of such specialists on the market? These and other questions were answered by Maria Buzunova, the head of the PR service of the northwestern branch of HeadHunter (a popular Russian job search platform – Ed.), during the national educational forum We Are From Neva (Мы с Невы).

  11.11.2024

• Digital Breakthrough Hackathon: 300,000 Rubles for 42 Hours of Coding

  900 IT specialists from all around Russia participated in the recent hackathon Digital Breakthrough. Season: Artificial Intelligence. Over the course of three days, they searched for solutions to cases provided by the event’s partner companies. At the end, the 18 best teams shared the hackathon’s prize pool of 3,600,000 rubles. The competition took place at ITMO University.

  14.10.2024

• University Applicants Prefer Educational Programs by IT Companies

  The availability of educational programs developed by IT companies is one of the top three criteria for choosing a university among IT applicants – says a recent study by Yandex Education. Most of all when choosing a university, both applicants and their parents care about its support for new students, such as adaptation and mentorship programs and a helpful community. Another factor is high-quality educational programs that equip graduates with relevant skills, as well as experienced teaching staff, including experts from tech companies.

  17.09.2024

• ITMO’s First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova: Big Tech Should Support Universities in Training IT Experts

  Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s First Vice Rector, believes that businesses should engage in the educational process at universities, share their knowledge, and contribute resources to the training of high-profile IT specialists. That was the view she expressed at the recent Eastern Economic Forum during the discussion The Digital Transformation of Public Administration and the Data Economy: Friend or Foe?. Such specialists will also be able to engage in the new national project Data Economics and Digital Transformation of the Country that aims to create a domestic data market.

  05.09.2024

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: “Technological Leadership Is Impossible Without Mathematics”

  Vladimir Vasilyev, the Rector of ITMO University, believes that training highly qualified IT and AI specialists is impossible without an in-depth study of mathematics and computer science at universities that needs to combine the expertise of the country’s top educational establishments and tech giants. The statement was voiced at a Yandex.Education press conference, which was held today, on August 27, in Moscow. The event was also attended by Maksut Shadayev, the Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, the rectors of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and the Siberian State Medical University, as well as the leaders of educational departments at T-Bank, Sberbank, and VK.

  27.08.2024

• Meet Russia’s First AI Service for Outstaffing IT Teams

  Students of the Artificial Intelligence Master’s program by ITMO’s AI Talent Hub and Napoleon IT have created an AI-powered platform for browsing job offers and hiring IT experts. Talent Matcher helps novice specialists find suitable internships faster; startups and corporations can turn to the service to assemble efficient teams for their projects. Currently, the online platform is used by over 5,000 people and 89 companies, including Wildberries, Napoleon IT, Rabota.ru, RuTube, and X5 Tech.

  14.06.2024

• ITMO Professor Anatoly Shalyto on Mentorship for IT Students

  2023 is declared the Year of Teachers and Mentors in Russia. Five years ago, Prof. Anatoly Shalyto was among the first lecturers in Russia to have received the prestigious award “For Mentoring.” This year, Dr. Shalyto, a leading researcher at the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, celebrates his 75th birthday. We talked to the esteemed professor about his work at ITMO and the new challenges in mentoring IT students.

  27.07.2023

• New Online Master’s Program: ITMO & Yandex To Train High-Load Systems Developers

  Continuing their successful history of collaboration, ITMO University and the Russian tech giant Yandex are launching a new fully-online Master’s program for future high-load systems developers. Learn more in this article.

  14.03.2023

• ITMO Launches Open-Source Mentorship Program

  ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” has launched an open-source mentorship program that will allow students to work at the university, helping research groups develop open-source frameworks and libraries. Read on to learn about the program’s perks.

  20.12.2022