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• Chosen by Best: ITMO Among Leading Russian Universities by Number of Enrolled Contest Winners

  Russian universities have now closed the round of admissions for top-priority applicants. 875 winners and runners-up of school student contests have chosen ITMO for their studies and enrolled at the university without exams. This is one of the best results in the country, the highest in St. Petesburg, and a new record for ITMO.

  03.08.2026

• Discovery of the Month: Cozy Mysteries, Active Hobbies, and More

  Summer is for having fun – and in July, we at ITMO NEWS have been doing it each in our own ways. From weekend trips to gardening endeavors, here’s what we’ve been up to in the past month.

  31.07.2026

• ITMO Among Top Five Russian Universities For Graduate Earnings in Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

  ITMO took fifth place in the ranking of Russian universities by the salary of their graduates working in chemistry and pharmaceutics. According to the survey by SuperJob, the median monthly salary of young specialists who graduated from ITMO in 2020-2025 is 170,000 rubles.

  30.07.2026

• ITMO Unveils First Russian Service for Fast Complex Planning of Social Urban Infrastructure

  Researchers from ITMO’s Institute of Design and Urban Studies have created a service that analyzes the shortage or surplus of urban social infrastructure and provides construction proposals based on precise calculations. The service’s main advantage is its efficiency: depending on a city’s size, it takes 5-30 seconds to complete the analysis. 

  29.07.2026

• This Week in St. Petersburg: July 30 - August 5, 2026

  Let’s start the third month of summer on a high! On offer this week is a badminton festival, open-air music, intriguing exhibitions, and more.

  29.07.2026

• Pakistani Physicist Mustafa Haider on New Paths for AI Data Centers, Working in Russia, and St. Petersburg Metro

  Mustafa Haider, a physicist from Pakistan, has overcome his share of hardships throughout his career. First when he managed to enroll at a prestigious university thanks to new admission rules, and then when the world closed down for COVID-19 and his international postdoc turned into isolation with uncertain prospects. Eventually, he found himself in the industry, where research ideas became commercial products. Since then, he has worked in China, where a chance encounter with a Russian professor brought him to St. Petersburg and, more specifically, ITMO, where he is now working on promising solar cells for AI data centers. Read on to learn how to turn a crisis into a springboard, keep your humanity in an increasingly machine-centered world, and fall in love with the metro, where every station is a masterpiece.

  28.07.2026

• Ethics in the Age of AI: In Conversation With ITMO Expert Daria Chirva

  Is AI conscious? Why do we need to study if AI already knows all the answers? Who is the author when an AI helps write a paper? And who is responsible for accidents with driverless cars? These and other questions fall in the realm of AI ethics, an emerging field that aims to make sense of the changing world and highlight the aspects we can’t overlook when adopting new technology. ITMO offers several courses on the subject, spearheaded by Daria Chirva, a member of the National Committee for AI Ethics. We chatted with the expert to find out more about ethical AI.

  28.07.2026

• ITMO Youth Lab’s New Software Prepares Medical Data for Use With AI

  Students of ITMO University’s youth lab Digital Public Health Technologies have created MAS-EHR, a multiagent platform for processing of medical documents. The software can automatically analyze multiformat data – be it texts, scans, or tables – and transform it into a single structured medical record. MAS-EHR extracts diagnoses and test results, converts them into a shared format, detects and deletes personal data, and connects separate facts to demonstrate how different records about the same patient correspond to each other.

  27.07.2026

• Three Neuroscience Experiments to Try at Home

  On the eve of World Brain Day (July 22), we invite you to use actual scientific methods to turb abstract concepts – like memory or attention – into something measurable. And it can be quite fun, too! Proceed below into our online laboratory to see for yourself.

  21.07.2026

• ITMO Family Day 2026: Diplomas, SUP Surfing, and a Science Bar

  Chat with a dean at the bar, play some drone basketball, meet a future employer, go SUP surfing in the Gulf of Finland, and talk to your future self – all in one day and one place. On July 11, ITMO Family gathered at the 300th Anniversary Park for ITMO Family Day 2026 – the festival of science, technology, and, most importantly, people. Here’s how it went.

  20.07.2026