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• Next Stop – Houston: School Students from St. Petersburg Win FIRST Tech Challenge Championship

  Sputnik Original, a team of school students from St. Petersburg, reigned supreme at last month's international robotics competition FIRST Tech Challenge Championship in Italy. They outperformed more than 40 teams from 13 countries, becoming the event’s absolute winners. The team trains at Lyceum No. 244, where they are mentored by university students, including Master’s students from ITMO who once graduated from the school and have now returned to teach supplementary courses. What awaits the team next? The world finals in Houston (USA) in late April. ITMO NEWS got to talk to the team and now shares their story. 

  21.03.2025

• ITMO Student Wins China Intelligent Robot Fighting and Gaming Competition

  Natalia Leshchenko, a student of ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, took first place at the China Intelligent Robot Fighting and Gaming Competition in Beijing, competing as part of the team of the Beijing Institute of Technology in the category Visual Confrontation. Overall, the competition welcomed 1,692 teams from 184 Chinese universities.

  30.01.2025

• Four ITMO Students Win 1 Million Ruble Each in National Contest Your Turn

  Your Turn is the biggest student project in Russia that helps implement student initiatives, with its platform boasting 1.7 million users. This year’s winners from ITMO presented their projects in design and digital technologies, as well as those aimed to assist people with disabilities.

  24.01.2025

• ITMO Students Win 3.4 Million Rubles at AI Junior Challenge

  Several first-year Bachelor’s students from ITMO University have won two gold and three bronze medals at the international AI Junior Challenge. The winners received a total of 3.4 million rubles in prizes, as well as internship offers from the competition’s partners. 

  20.12.2024

• ITMO Students Develop AI Model to Detect Car Malfunctions

  Daria Ledneva and Timur Ionov, students of ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science, became winners in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Olympiad (AIDAO) organized by Yandex Education and HSE University. Their team, AI Capybara, suggested an AI model that detects car malfunctions – a solution that drew the interest of the ridesharing service Yandex Taxi (Yandex Go).

  04.12.2024

• Five Continents – One Tournament: BRICS+ CTF Finals Held at ITMO University

  Five continents, 105 countries, and 1,257 teams – Russia has recently hosted the online cybersecurity competition BRICS+ CTF. The final round of the contest, co-organized by ITMO University, took place on November 16 and welcomed 20 teams from eight countries. The team Friendly Maltese Citizens (international) finished first, followed by NE_SPRUSH (Russia) and Bushwhackers (Russia).

  20.11.2024

• I Am a Professional Contest: Programming & Information Technologies Track FAQ

  Registration is still ongoing for the I Am a Professional competition. All winners will get the opportunity to enroll in Russia’s leading universities and intern at major companies; medalists will be awarded up to 300,000 rubles. ITMO is in charge of three of the conference’s tracks, including Programming & Information Technologies. In this article, we look into what to expect and how to prep for the track with its curator Alexander Mayatin, an associate professor at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty.

  23.10.2024

• I Am a Professional Contest: Information & Cyber Security Track FAQ

  Registration is underway for the I Am a Professional competition that allows medalists to receive up to 300,000 rubles and winners and prize-winners – to intern at major Russian companies and enroll at the country’s top universities. ITMO oversees three conference tracks, including Information & Cyber Security. In this article, we talk about what to anticipate and how to prepare for the contest with Andrey Yougunson, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies.

  16.10.2024

• Triumph Again: Russian Students Win Four Gold Medals at International Olympiad in Informatics

  At the recently concluded International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the Russian team secured four gold medals – repeating last year’s success! Competing under the IOI flag, the team was coached by Andrey Stankevich, the Dean of ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, who also trained the teams that secured ITMO’s seven wins at ICPC. This year, IOI brought together over 350 participants from 91 countries, all assembled in Egypt’s Alexandria on September 1-8.

  07.09.2024

• ITMO PhD Students – Two-Time Winners of Google’s Image Matching Challenge

  Jaafar Mahmoud and Ammar Ali, PhD students at ITMO University, have won Google's Image Matching Challenge, an international machine learning competition, for the second time in a row.

  25.06.2024