Information Technology at the Higher School of Economics

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2024

Development of a reference program for additional vocational education together with the Alliance in the field of AI

The AI Alliance is developing a reference program for additional vocational education together with one of the leading universities - the Higher School of Economics. This was announced on August 20, 2024 by the First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Alliance in the field of AI. Read more here.

Launch of graduate school in the field of artificial intelligence together with Yandex and ITMO

Yandex opens the first graduate school in artificial intelligence with a bias in practice. Its goal is to create new conditions and infrastructure for the development of young scientists in the country. Each year of training, graduate students will receive grants of 800 thousand rubles to create new technologies in the field of artificial intelligence and quickly implement their developments in practice, in the industry. Among the first partners are ITMO and HSE, over the next few years Yandex will increase the number of partners several times. The HSE announced this on July 23, 2024. Read more here.

Applying Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to Configure Generative Streaming Networks

Scientists at the faculty's Center AI and Institute artificial intelligence for Digital Sciences computer sciences HSE have applied classical algorithms reinforcement training to tune generative streaming networks (GFlowNets). This made it possible to improve the work of GFlowNets, which have been used for three years to solve the most difficult scientific problems at the stages of modeling, generating hypotheses and experimental design. The HSE announced this on June 13, 2024. Подробнее #.2A_.D0.9E.D0.B1.D1.83.D1.87.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.B5_.D1.81_.D0.BF.D0.BE.D0.B4.D0.BA.D1.80.D0.B5.D0.BF.D0.BB.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.B5.D0.BC_.D0.BF.D0.BE.D0.B7.D0.B2.D0.BE.D0.BB.D0.B8.D0.BB.D0.BE_.D0.BB.D1.83.D1.87.D1.88.D0.B5_.D1.80.D0.B0.D0.B1.D0.BE.D1.82.D0.B0.D1.82.D1.8C_.D0.B3.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B5.D1.80.D0.B0.D1.82.D0.B8.D0.B2.D0.BD.D1.8B.D0.BC_.D0.BF.D0.BE.D1.82.D0.BE.D0.BA.D0.BE.D0.B2.D1.8B.D0.BC_.D0.BD.D0.B5.D0.B9.D1.80.D0.BE.D1.81.D0.B5.D1.82.D1.8F.D0.BC здесь.

Opening of a master's degree in AI from MTS

PJSC, MTS a digital ecosystem, opens a master's degree in " artificial intelligence Research and Entrepreneurship in Artificial Intelligence" in. Higher School of Economics The purpose of the program is to train specialists in the field of AI and the application of new technologies in business. MTS announced this on May 17, 2024. Read more here.

Launch of a strategic project in the field of artificial intelligence

The Higher School of Economics, within the framework of the Priority-2030 program, is launching a strategic project "AI technologies for humans." The goal of the project is to create and implement AI assistants. The peculiarity of the project lies in its multidisciplinary and orientation to the real needs of a person in various fields of activity, from education to health care. This was announced on May 15, 2024 by representatives of the Higher School of Economics.

As reported, the central goal of the project is to create AI assistants that will be integrated into the educational, administrative and scientific processes of the university. These systems are designed to reduce routine workload and improve quality of life, especially in a learning environment. Among the priority areas of work are areas such as gamification of educational processes and the development of recommendation systems for adaptive learning.

The appearance in the HSE strategic project pool of a stratproject for the development of artificial intelligence is a natural and, to some extent, necessary step that consolidates the accumulated competencies, scientific potential and expertise of the university. As of May 2024, we are already implementing more than 20 applied projects in the field of AI in the interests of industrial partners, leaders in our industries. told Alexey Masyutin, scientific director of the project and director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Sciences of the Higher School of Economics

The project also provides for the development of innovative solutions for medicine, health, education, science and management. The implementation of these projects will strengthen the competence of the university in the field of AI, help optimize the quality of training of specialists and commercialize developments in partnership with leading industry players.

Among other things, HSE researchers are working to create systems that will help adapt regions and industries to climate change and minimize the socio-economic risks associated with natural and climate change. The team of the Faculty of Geography and Geo-Information Technologies is responsible for the implementation of this part of the project, which has already created a portal with interactive maps, information panels and other geoinfographics. The project team will also include specialists from the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Sciences, who will develop and adapt AI tools for this subject area. Experts expect that the project will be integrated into the climate and economic agenda of the country's national projects.

Our university has always tried to be at the forefront of scientific research and technological development. This project will not only strengthen the scientific schools of the Tower, but also create products that will find their application in the daily life of each of us. That is why scientists from all over the university will work together with all IT divisions of the HSE so that the developed models are, on the one hand, organically integrated into the IT landscape of the university, and on the other hand, have the ability to deploy partners on the site. told Alexey Masyutin, scientific director of the project and director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Sciences of the Higher School of Economics

The HSE expects that the strategic project "AI technologies for humans" will strengthen the academic community and help develop a society ready for future technological challenges.

Partnership Development Plan with Yandex

The partnership between Yandex and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics will expand in three areas: the creation of new educational programs, the development of research in the field of AI and the use of generative neural networks in the educational process. FKN was founded by Yandex and the Higher School of Economics and became one of the leaders in the training of developers and specialists in AI and machine learning. During this time, 3,385 people became graduates of the faculty. The HSE announced this on March 28, 2024.

In 2024, with the support of Yandex, a master's degree in AI in marketing and product will open, and an AI direction will be added to the master's program "Modern Computer Sciences," which will train specialists in generative technologies and large language models. Interdisciplinary programs in IT areas for students of socio-humanitarian specialties will also be developed.

For ten years now, the Faculty of Computer Science of Vyshka has been a source of advanced developments in the IT field and trains specialists. In 2023, 93 winners and prize-winners of All-Russia entered the first year of the FKN bachelor's degree, 73 of which were enrolled in the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science educational program. "Software Engineering" demonstrated the highest passing score among all educational programs of the Higher School of Economics - 305 points. One of the key tasks of the HSE is to strengthen training in the field of AI. Our students successfully compete in international programming competitions and become in-demand specialists in the industry, where a deep understanding of the technologies of the future is required. Thanks to cooperation with key players in the artificial intelligence industry, such as Yandex, Vyshka will be able to contribute to the formation of a new generation of experts in the field of AI, who will have the most difficult tasks, "said Nikita Anisimov, rector of the Higher School of Economics.

Thanks to Yandex's support, the scientific and educational laboratory of big data analysis methods LAMBDA and the Yandex laboratory were founded at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics. For young researchers at the FKN there is a Yandex scholarship: annually the company supports up to 16 students participating in scientific work. In September 2024, a joint graduate school in artificial intelligence will open. In addition, Yandex is one of the industrial partners of the Center for Artificial Intelligence of the Higher School of Economics.

Graduates of the faculty are in demand both in business and in science. In the next few years, Yandex and FKN plan to significantly expand cooperation in the field of IT personnel training. According to our estimates, in the next 10 years, the number of graduates of Yandex programs at the faculty will increase 4 times compared to last decade, "said Darya Kozlova, director of education at Yandex.

The Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics, together with Yandex, is introducing tools based on artificial intelligence into the educational process and research. Including in 2024, courses on working with neural networks for students and teachers will be launched.

Conduct advanced training course on the use of AI

At the Higher School of Economics and the General Church Graduate School and Doctoral Studies named after the Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius (OCAD), he took an advanced training course "Principles, Methods and Ethical Aspects of the Use of Artificial Intelligence." It was attended by representatives of theological educational institutions. As a result, the listeners presented the ideas of their own projects using AI and discussed them with experts. This was announced on February 22, 2024 to TAdviser by representatives of the Higher School of Economics. Read more here.

HSE graduates will be able to receive diplomas in the NFT format

HSE, together with the VKontakte social network, is launching a pilot project for issuing NFT diplomas. They will be performed in the form of digital images with programmed metadata about the graduate, as well as what educational program and in what year he completed his studies. The HSE announced this on January 19, 2024. Read more here.

Training neural networks to recognize humor humanly

A group of scientists computer from the Faculty of HSE Sciences conducted a study on the ability to neuronets to distinguish humor. It turned out that for more reliable recognition, the approach to creating sets on data which neural networks are trained should be changed. Such information TAdviser was shared with representatives of the Higher School of Economics on January 11, 2024. More. here

2023

HSE will increase training of specialists in the field of AI on behalf of Vladimir Putin

HSE will increase the training of specialists in the field of AI on behalf of Vladimir Putin. The university announced this on November 24, 2023.

Dean of the Faculty of computer sciences HSE Ivan Arzhantsev noted that it is planned to significantly expand the master's programs and the graduate school in computer sciences, which will make it possible to qualitatively increase the level of training of specialists in the field of AI.

HSE and the Faculty of Computer Science are actively working to strengthen training in the field of AI. We already have a fairly large bachelor's degree, the next goal is to significantly expand the master's and graduate school programs in computer sciences. We provide students and graduate students with the opportunity to study technologies and methods, as well as actively develop research work so that our graduates can apply the knowledge gained in future professional activities. In addition, we are partnering with AI industry leaders to make practical learning and real-world challenges available to students. We are confident that our work will help create a generation of experts in the field of artificial intelligence who will be able to successfully cope with the complex challenges of the future, "said Ivan Arzhantsev, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Higher School of Economics.

It is necessary to significantly expand the training of the strongest development scientists. This task must be set before the leaders of the first rating of universities in terms of the quality of training of specialists in the field of artificial intelligence. These include the Higher School of Economics, MIPT, ITMO, Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities, as well as Skoltech, - said Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

Agreement with Rostelecom on the development of a series of training cases

Rostelecom and the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics (VSHB) on November 7, 2023 signed a long-term partnership agreement, under which VSHB teachers will develop a series of training cases based on an analysis of real business situations from the management practice of Rostelecom group companies. A total of 16 cases will be created covering different aspects of management: project management, strategies and marketing, organizational behavior, leadership, as well as operational and financial management.

Rostelecom experts will provide relevant data companies, on the basis of which the teachers of the Higher School of Economics will develop educational cases. All materials will be prepared taking into account international standards. Cases that reflect current challenges business processes Russian and the market will become a practical-oriented educational and methodological material for training at various levels - from undergraduate to MBA programs. The case method is recognized as one of the key tools of high-quality business.formations

The developments will be introduced into the educational programs of the Higher School of Economics, as well as replenish the collection of educational cases of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics and will be available free of charge to all teachers of business disciplines in universities and corporate universities. An additional advantage of the project will be guidelines for teachers on the use of these cases.

Establishing partnerships with leading companies is one of the priorities for the development of the Higher School of Economics as a leading Russian business school. The use of original training cases developed on the primary materials of domestic companies is an important factor in the high quality of our programs from undergraduate to MBA and corporate training. The new project of the Higher School of Economics with Rostelecom shows that cooperation with business in creating cases on Russian management practices can benefit both parties, "said Valery Katkalo, director of the Higher School of Business at the Higher School of Economics.

Our company has extensive expertise in the implementation of complex and large-scale projects in different. industries economies Acting as a partner for, states business and, population Rostelecom is introducing technological services and products that require unique competencies and professionalism to develop and launch. A joint project with a business school of this level allows us not only to share this experience with the audience for which it is important. We are confident that our cooperation will be a contribution to strengthening the country's human resources and will allow us to train specialists who are really in demand by business. In addition, it is important for us that the partnership with the HSE will strengthen our own training programs, - said Ekaterina Barabanova, HR Development Director of PJSC Rostelecom.

Axenix opens workspace at HSE Graduate School of Business

Consulting company Axenix and the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics opened coworking space on the university campus in Moscow on Shabolovka. The space is decorated and equipped in accordance with modern trends in the organization of educational spaces. The design uses the corporate colors of the partner company. This was announced on October 9, 2023 by representatives of Axenix.

As reported, in the personal coworking space on an area of ​ ​ 395 square meters there is everything necessary for independent and team design work as part of the educational process. Students, teachers and students of additional professional education programs at the Higher School of Economics can hold various meetings, study and work in a zoned comfortable space.

The university also organizes various events, lectures and master classes on the territory of coworking space together with partner companies.

Axenix and HSE Graduate School of Business are strategic partners. Together they are engaged in management consulting for business and government agencies on the basis of the Center for Management Consulting of the Higher School of Economics, and also implement student initiatives. In addition, Axenix experts teach classes at the faculty as visiting practitioners. The company invites students of various programs to an internship and, if successful, offers a job.

We have been cooperating with the Higher School of Economics for a long time, we hold joint events, we work with faculties, career centers, student case clubs. The university is our basis "supplier" of personnel, and we are always glad to see HSE graduates as our employees. commented Marina Papkova, HR Director of Axenix

MTS opens the Department of Machine Learning at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics

MTS On June 19, 2023, PJSC "" announced the opening of the basic department in the direction of the deep department machine learning at the faculty. computer sciences HSE The first 500 students will begin classes on September 1, 2023. Training will be held on real cases of companies included in the MTS ecosystem, and the best students will undergo an internship in "" and MTS Digital will receive an offer.

The basic department of MTS will work in three relevant areas: generative models of artificial intelligence, Big Data and data work, as well as the creation and support of infrastructure for big data.

Pavel Voronin, First Vice President for MTS Technologies, will become the head of the department. The best specialists of the company with practical experience in the field of big data and deep machine learning will teach. The program includes lectures on generative models of artificial intelligence, sound processing technologies, computer vision and other areas. MTS also plans to hold contests and hackathons with a prize fund.

Generative artificial intelligence is the most important technology trend that will radically change people's lives in the next few years. It is very important to master the work with transformer networks and convolutional neural networks in order to feel confident in the future and create it. We are glad that we can give this opportunity to HSE students, - commented Pavel Voronin, First Vice President for MTS Technologies.

An important area of ​ ​ work of the faculty is the development of partnerships with Russian companies and the involvement of their specialists as teachers. We know MTS Digital not only as a reliable partner, with whom we have already launched courses and training projects, but also as an expert who occupies high positions in key market segments. This basic department at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics will provide students with the opportunity to work with urgent tasks, and scientific teams with the implementation of joint applied projects, "said Ivan Arzhantsev, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Higher School of Economics.

2022

Launch of engineering and mathematical school - joint educational project with VK

The Higher School of Economics announced on October 10, 2022 that, together with VK, they are opening enrollment in a joint educational project - the Engineering and Mathematics School. Within the framework of the project, HSE students will be able to undergo training in practice-oriented workshops in current and popular areas of IT: machine learning, the development of highly loaded applications and artificial intelligence technologies. Training is free, the number of places is limited.

On the basis of the Engineering and Mathematical School, the Higher School of Economics and VK organize the work of four workshops: on virtual platform solutions, on compilers and high-load applications, on the hardware of artificial intelligence (AI) and on applied AI. The first workshop was launched on the basis of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, the remaining three workshops were implemented jointly by MIEM HSE. Students will work on the real technological tasks of VK and receive a scholarship from the company in the amount of 40,000 rubles.

The team of each workshop will include up to ten best masters and bachelors of senior courses in the technical departments of the Higher School of Economics. Selection tests include test tasks and interviews with specialists from the company and the university.

For workshop participants, HSE teachers and VK experts will conduct courses in more than ten areas of IT: web development, machine learning, data analysis, information search, development methodology and others. Students will receive both relevant theoretical knowledge and applied skills necessary to start a career in the chosen field.

Graduates of the program will be able to take an internship at VK and, following its results, join the teams as young specialists.

Cooperation with VK gives HSE students the opportunity to take part in the implementation of large industrial projects, which were launched jointly and in the interests of one of the large IT corporations in Russia. Participation in the implementation of projects, on the one hand, will allow students to acquire first-hand - that is, from mentors, teachers and VK employees - practical skills and skills that are relevant in the labor market, and on the other, to significantly pump their own soft skills, because working in the workshop is possible only on a command basis. noted the director of the Engineering and Mathematical School of the Higher School of Economics, Fedor Ivanov.

The launch of the Engineering and Mathematical School together with the HSE is a continuation of fruitful cooperation with the university. The format of workshop laboratories, which will be the main one in the School of Engineering and Mathematics, it opens up many opportunities for students. They will be able to work with real business projects of different VK teams and regularly interact with experienced VK experts. The breadth of thinking of HSE students will allow implementing bold ideas - these are necessary for the creation and development of advanced VK services and technologies, which are used by millions of people, commented Anna Stepanova, Director of Educational Projects at VK.

Agreement with VK on the development of the undergraduate program "Digital Innovations in Enterprise Management

On June 20, 2022, VK announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Higher School of Business HSE on a partnership to develop the undergraduate program "Digital Innovations in Enterprise Management." In the medium term, the program will train more than 350 young specialists of international level.

Already in 2023, VK employees will become teachers of specialized courses, and students will work on real projects of the company. The program's top graduates will get a chance to join the VK team.

With the participation of VK, students will be able to gain relevant knowledge and get acquainted with digital technologies and products with a multi-million audience. A close connection with the business will make it possible to better understand what needs the business has and prepare personnel with demanded skills and competencies.

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Since the beginning of the creation of the Higher School of Business in 2020 on the basis of the National Research University of HSE, business communication has been one of its key priorities. Thus, innovative academic councils were created for each educational program. Their composition is at least 75% composed of top managers of leading Russian and international companies specialized for a specific educational program. The chairman of the academic council of the program "Digital Innovations in Enterprise Management" (TSIUP) was already then Boris Kaptelov, operational director of advertising technologies at VK.

Margarita Gladkova, Academic Head of the Program of the Higher School of Business HSE, spoke about the structure of the curriculum, which takes 4 years of bachelor's degree and consists of five main blocks:

• understanding innovation;
• knowledge of technologies that enable innovation and ideas to be turned into products;
• analytical skills;
• knowledge of economics and finance;
• marketing and management required to understand the market and the ability to sell the product.

Partnership with VK allows you to make the program as practical as possible, give students up-to-date knowledge and provide their career trajectory with incredible opportunities already at the start, noted Margarita Gladkova.

The program "Digital Innovations in Enterprise Management" prepares globally sought-after specialists: managers of IT projects and products, leaders in digital business transformation. Demand is growing in an explosive way: over the past two years, according to the Headhunter portal, the demand for relevant specialists has amounted to more than 720%.

The Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics is ready to respond to the challenges of personnel hunger in the field of digitalization: over the next 5 years, more than 350 graduates of the Digital Innovations in Enterprise Management undergraduate program will be trained within the framework of the CIUP, who will be able to occupy their niche in the market.

The educational program was also based on many years of cooperation with the University of London, which, combined with the specialized training of the Higher School of Economics in business computer science, gives high-quality fundamental business education to students.

Thanks to the synthesis of the practices of a leading Russian technology company, the educational platform of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics and the implementation of training programs in English, graduates of the CIUP will have competitive competencies of the international level.

Training in the Business Informatics program 87 bachelors in conjunction with Navicon

The system integrator and developer Navicon on March 31, 2022 announced that he had become one of the business partners of the Higher School of Business at the Higher School of Economics. Under the guidance of the company's experts, 87 bachelors of the Business Informatics educational program master business analytics in a project format. The best students based on the results of their studies will be able to apply for an internship at Navicon.

Navicon experts are involved in project seminars and team course projects for third-year students of the Business Informatics bachelor's program. The training takes place in the format of a business game and is focused on developing practical implementation skills IT-projects for future business analysts.

As part of project workshops based on business cases, students solve the applied tasks of automation for the real sector based on machine learning, data mining and corporate performance management systems. For example, under the guidance of mentors, students develop IT solutions for automating procurement, planning production, creating analytical systems to support decisions.

The business simulation takes place in several stages. At the first stage, the project teams conduct a study of the automation object, write the charter and plan of the consulting project, formulate functional requirements for the IT solution. The second stage will be the preparation and protection of coursework ― a simplified version of a real IT project. The examination board will assess the timing and quality of the work done, as well as the compliance with the results of the set goal.

Project training with the participation of practical teachers working with large projects and understanding the trends in the development of the global and domestic IT market will become the basis for a career start for students, and for Navicon ― the opportunity to get promising employees with the necessary skills into the team.

In Russia, the shortage of personnel in the IT industry is, according to various estimates, from 500 thousand to a million people. In six years, that deficit could at least double. Therefore, it is necessary to quickly develop technical education and train practitioners who will quickly join business processes, and companies will not need to spend time retraining them. We are grateful to the Higher School of Economics and the HSE Department of Business Informatics for the opportunity to conduct joint educational activities and want to put such projects on stream in the future. We hope that cooperation with the university will become another channel for us to attract talented youth to the company, ― said Maria Averina, Director of the Business Analytics Department of Navicon.

The value of the project training format is that students adopt the real experience of professionals, study the nuances of project work in practice and join the IT community at the stage of study. We have been successfully cooperating with Navicon for a long time, many graduates of Business Informatics work in the company. We are confident that the expertise of the Navicon team in the field of business analytics will allow students to gain in-depth knowledge and skills that will help their career rise in the IT field, - said Sergey Bruskin, academic coordinator of project training for 3 years, deputy head of the Department of Business Informatics at the Higher School of Economics.

2021: Launch of Innovation in Retail Program with X5 Retail Group

On February 18, 2021, X5 Retail Group announced that, together with the Higher School of Business of the National Research University, the Higher School of Economics, concluded a strategic agreement on long-term cooperation in the field of education. At the first stage of the partnership, a joint application program "Innovations in Retail" will be launched for students at the Higher School of Economics and other universities. Read more here.

The program "Innovations in" retail is designed for 48 listeners in one stream. The program will be selected on a competitive basis, the best candidates will receive a training grant from X5 Retail Group. The program will be taught by representatives of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics, practitioners and innovation specialists of the Kh5 Retail Group, retail chains Five"" and Intersection"," as well as the Russian world companies (, IIDF Plug & Play and others). The duration of the program is 3 months. It includes face-to-face and online classes, content available in 24/7 format, homework and work on project teams. The result of the training will be the creation by the project team of a concept of an innovative product or service that can be implemented on the Kh5 infrastructure. It is planned that during the year up to 50 hypotheses with conversion to 5-10 effective projects will Kh5 fall into the innovation funnel. A narrow focus on training for the company's tasks will allow you to replenish the flow of employees as interns and select the best students.

Cooperation between HSE and Kh5 will be long-term and progressive. In April 2021, a multifunctional audience of the Retail Group Kh5 will be opened at the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics, where lectures and seminars of the Innovation in Retail program, applied workshops and scouting of solutions developed by students, as well as industry meetings with leading Russian and world companies will be held. HSE and Kh5 plan to conduct joint research, publish scientific and educational materials in the field of retail and technological solutions.

One of the key drivers of the development of the Higher School of Business at the Higher School of Economics is the construction of a system of corporate relations with leading companies in Russia and the world. Partnership with X5 Retail Group is the most important step in this direction. By joining forces, we will provide leadership in the quality of training in specialized business education programs. This partnership will give impetus to our research in the field of retail, and will also allow us to implement ambitious plans to support student startups by creating a joint accelerator - said Professor Valery Katkalo, First Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Dean of the Higher School of Business.

Kh5 and the Higher School of Economics set themselves an ambitious task - the development of entrepreneurship in the university environment due to the changed format of the educational process. Within the framework of strategic cooperation with the scientific school, Kh5 plans to stimulate the search for ideas, the creation and development of innovative products, services and processes that meet the needs of business by the students themselves. The best projects will be able to become part of the business, benefit millions of customers. The launch of joint cooperation is a logical step in the system work of Kh5 with innovations. Together with the Higher School of Economics, we want to improve the quality of education, taking into account the current needs of business and the accumulated expertise, assist in the training of professional personnel and open career opportunities for talented students, - comments Ivan Melnik, Director of Innovation at Kh5 Retail Group.

2020: Cooperation with LANIT-Integration in the field of technology research for agriculture

LANIT-Integration (part of the LANIT group of companies) and the HSE technological transfer center signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of technology research for agriculture and product promotion markets. This was announced on August 31, 2020 by LANIT.

Cooperation involves joint research and the organization of applied scientific activities. The experience of LANIT-Integration in the field of technology and the expertise of the Higher School of Economics in the field of analytical work and education, as well as scientific groundwork for the study of the legal and economic aspects of modern agricultural technologies, will make it possible to form a unified vision of the scientific and technological development of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. The partners plan to conduct a joint study of promising areas of agricultural development to proactively identify points of application of digital technologies.

The global agro-industrial complex is rapidly being technologized. Digital technology is changing the control system, making it more distributed, horizontal. The active use of IoT leads to the autonomy of production components and deepens the informatization of agro-industrial processes, minimizes losses from the so-called "human factor." At the same time, it becomes necessary to take into account various types of technological processes related to soil cultivation and crop cultivation, which is reflected in the interaction between agricultural production entities and representatives of other industries in the "production - implementation" chain. Cooperation with LANIT-Integration is being built within the framework of the CTT project to study the needs of different segments of the agro-industrial complex in digital technologies and develop approaches to creating a unified digital ecosystem of the Russian agro-industrial complex.

Pavel Svarnik, Executive Director of the Center for Strategic Development and Digital Transformation of LANIT-Integration, noted: {{quote 'Agriculture is a production area, economic entities carry out a variety of technological activities in large spaces, producing various types of massively demanded products and services. Decisions here are made on the basis of data, processes are managed promptly, so the whole range of technologies for planting and harvesting crops, their cultivation, protection and storage, and not just "digital" should be considered. As manufacturing technologies find application, IT solutions will complement them, enrich, ensuring the efficiency of business processes, creating opportunities for the development of the shared economy and the formation of various ways of creating value, forming mechanisms of interaction and exchange between economic agents, while reducing the role of geographical, temporary and other factors affecting socio-economic processes, institutions and phenomena, and ultimately we will see synergy. }}

Participants in the agreement on the study of promising technologies are also conducting independent practical work on the requests of agricultural enterprises to digitalize their activities and to implement standards for automating production and management processes.

2019

Launch of educational resource цифроваяграмотность.рф

On December 26, 2019, it became known that the University of 2035 and Russian companies launched an educational resource цифроваяграмотность.рф so that residents of Russia could learn for free the safe and effective use of digital technologies and services.

According to the company, Megafon, Rostelecom, Russian Railways, Er-Telecom, Sibur IT, Rostec Academy, HSE, Rocit and Russian Post, NAFI analytical center will be engaged in the development of IT solutions, the provision of online content, as well as expertise of its quality. The project operator is the University of 2035. Read more here.

Plans to invest more than 4 billion rubles in digital transformation of the university in 4 years

On December 24, 2019, the Higher School of Economics told TAdviser that it plans to spend about 1.4 billion rubles on digital transformation of the university in 2020, bringing it over the period 2020-23. investments in this area totaling up to more than 4 billion rubles.

These funds will be aimed at developing, firstly, the university's digital platform (creating a digital educational environment, integration solutions, digitalization of back-office, modernization of IT infrastructure) and, secondly, digital educational resources.

As of December 2019, in terms of digitalization, the Higher School of Economics occupies a leading place among Russian universities and is comparable to the best universities in the world. As the rector of the Higher School of Economics Yaroslav Kuzminov notes, further digital transformation will allow the university to switch to electronic regulations, eliminate bureaucratic approvals and provide virtually endless individualization of educational trajectories for students.

So already in 2020, it is planned to introduce the first version of the online learning system, which will support modern technologies of education, testing and interaction, the student teacher, point-by-point pulling up those fragments of knowledge that the student missed for some reason. Further plans: the creation of self-diagnosis services for knowledge, as well as recommendation services for applicants for career guidance, readiness for the Unified State Exam, psychological readiness to study at the Higher School of Economics, etc.

A separate important task within the framework of digitalization of the university is to ensure equal access to education for all categories of students, including for students from remote regions of our country and the world, as well as for network partner universities of the Higher School of Economics.

Work will continue to support, update and produce online courses. Already in 2020, the authors of online courses at the Higher School of Economics will receive allowances, a system of stimulating the development and updating of courses based on their effectiveness indicators will work. Developing online training, the HSE sets the task by the end of the next decade to issue approximately 500 thousand certificates for attended online courses.

To solve the problems of digital transformation of the university, a IT command is being formed at the Higher School of Economics, to which specialists from the faculty, computer sciences the School of Business Informatics and MIEM will be involved. This approach will allow you to develop and implement your own original IT solutions that allow you to ensure the manageability of the main processes at the university without dependence on third-party companies.

According to the university for digital transformation, he plans to spend the funds that he earns himself. So, according to the adopted financial plan, the volume of HSE revenues in 2020 will increase to 26 billion rubles, providing a 10 percent increase compared to 2019. At the same time, extrabudgetary revenues will amount to 47% of this amount.

IT Landscape

Most of the activities on the management of the educational process, administrative services and scientific activities of the HSE are closely related to information technology and are no longer possible in paper form.

Key Challenges for HSE Information Systems Architecture

• The client and his needs in the spotlight. Students and teachers are extremely demanding clients.
• General "mobilization" of students, applicants, graduates requires an industrial level of system implementation.
• The growth of big data (including educational and scientific tasks) and the need for modern equipment, including high-performance clusters.
• Speeding up the technology innovation lifecycle requires highly trained IT staff.
• Replacing ordinary offices and services with digital ones without the possibility of rolling back.

Cooperation with Cisco and Rostelecom in the field of digitalization of educational processes

On April 4, 2019, the Higher School of Economics announced that, together with Cisco and Rostelecom, they signed a five-year cooperation agreement aimed at implementing joint activities under the Digital Education program, digitalizing educational processes and training qualified specialists for the high-tech economy. The result of the signing of the trilateral agreement will be the creation of a joint educational and research Center for Digital Technologies at the Higher School of Economics.

The agreement provides for joint activities of Cisco, Rostelecom and the Higher School of Economics within the framework of the university's educational, educational, methodological and research activities, internship and the possibility of further employment of students at Rostelecom and Cisco, as well as cooperation in the field of digitalization of educational processes. Cisco and Rostelecom intend to hold annual presentations for students, allocate specialists for classes, participate in the formation of a pool of projects in which HSE students could participate, conduct joint research and involve their employees in the scientific leadership of students and graduate students.

Cisco also intends to promote IT education at the Higher School of Economics through the Cisco Network Academy program - fundamental training courses for specialists in the design, construction and operation of communication networks.

The result of the signing of the trilateral agreement will be the creation of a joint educational and research Center for Digital Technologies at the Higher School of Economics. Its tasks will be to integrate the experience and technologies of Cisco and Rostelecom to build an electronic educational environment at the Higher School of Economics in the context of the Digital Education program of the Russian Federation. The Center for Digital Technologies will develop and test the latest educational technologies, including smart education technologies, online education and mixed education in the training of highly qualified IT personnel, as well as conducting joint research and project activities with the participation of leading Cisco and Rostelecom specialists.

Cisco actively cooperates with many educational institutions in Russia. The time of digital transformation imposes increasingly stringent requirements for the professional level of graduates, and our goal is to educate ICT specialists who can develop the national IT infrastructure and stimulate the digital transformation of the Russian economy, "commented Jonathan Sparrow, Cisco vice president for work in Russia and the CIS. - Within the framework of cooperation with Rostelecom and the Higher School of Economics, we intend to support young people who decide to connect their professional future with high technologies and strengthen Russia's competitiveness in the global ICT market.

Training of professionals in the engineering field is impossible without immersion in the environment of real tasks and practical work with modern infrastructure. Cooperation with leading IT market participants in the field of not only personnel training, but also joint research and advanced development is a strategic direction of development that will allow us to create a world-class engineering school, "says Igor Agamirzyan, Vice President of the Higher School of Economics. - The presence of such schools in the field of IT technologies - cyberphysical systems, microelectronics and telecommunications - is a prerequisite for the development of the digital economy, and IIEM HSE is actively working in this direction together with our leading industrial partners.

2018: Opening a joint laboratory with Samsung Research

As it became known in March 2018, the Higher School of Economics opens a joint laboratory with Samsung Research.

Samsung-HSE Laboratory will develop Bayesian output mechanisms in modern neural networks, which will solve a number of problems in deep learning. The laboratory team will be made up of employees of the research group of Bayesian methods of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Higher School of Economics, a scientific group in the field of machine learning and Bayesian inference. It will be headed by HSE professor Dmitry Vetrov.

As you know, neural networks and Bayesian models are two popular paradigms in the field of machine learning. The first made a real revolution in the processing of large amounts of data, giving rise to a direction called deep learning. The latter have traditionally been used for processing small data. The neurobayes approach can potentially solve a number of open problems in deep learning: the possibility of catastrophic retraining to noise in data, self-confidence of the neural network even in erroneous predictions, non-interpretability of the decision-making process, vulnerability to hostile attacks (adversarial attacks). All these problems are recognized by the scientific community, many teams around the planet are working on their solution, but there are no ready-made answers yet.

In its developments, amsung Electronics uses many deep learning models. But in order to keep up with competitors, it is not enough just to use ready-made models. It is necessary to create new machine learning technologies. This is all the more important because the field of in-depth training has not yet "settled down" and every year more and more new models appear, and existing ones are quickly becoming obsolete, "explained Dr. Gingbe Li, head of the AI Center, a recently created division of Samsung Research. - All this means that humanity has not yet found the optimal solution for processing large amounts of data. Therefore, cooperation with leading scientific groups in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence at universities around the world allows you to "keep your finger on the pulse" and track the most recent achievements in the field, as well as gain exclusive access to technologies created in partner laboratories.

Samsung's decision to choose our group as a key partner in Russia, giving us the opportunity to focus exclusively on basic research, is a sign of recognition of our scientific achievements and at the same time a credit of trust, which we will try to fully justify, "said Dmitry Vetrov, head of the joint laboratory and head of the Bayesian Methods Research Group at HSE. - Our laboratory will be engaged in the creation of new technologies, that is, the most interesting from the point of view of the scientist. Our goals fully coincide with the wishes of our partners, which serves as the key to successful and long-term cooperation.

In addition to scientific projects, the joint HSE laboratory - Samsung will actively participate in the educational process. Both students and graduate students of the Faculty of Computer Science will be involved in the work in it. In August 2018, with the support of Samsung, the second summer school on neuroscience methods will be held.

2017: Start of Data Science training on all educational programs

In 2017, the Data Culture project was launched at the Higher School of Economics, within the framework of which educational tracks appeared at all educational programs of the university's bachelor's degree aimed at forming competencies for students in Data Science.

2015

Open access to the first HSE online courses on the "National Open Education Platform"

September 1, 2015 opened access to the first online courses of the Higher School of Economics, posted on the Russian "National Open Education Platform."

Laboratory of Big Data Analysis Methods (LAMBDA) opened at the HSE Faculty of Computer Science

At the Faculty of Computer Science, the Faculty of ^[1] the Higher School of ^[2] the HSE together with Yandex, opened a laboratory of methods for analyzing Big Data (LAMBDA). The goal of the new research and training laboratory is to form a world-class research center for solving fundamental problems in the field of computer science and the development of Big Data processing and analysis methods .

Big data (or Big Data) is a huge amount of structured or unstructured information, such as, for example, social networks, document archives, and stock market indicators. The task of Big Data Analysts is to obtain human-perceived results after processing this amount of data. The term itself was introduced into use relatively recently - in 2008, and as an academic subject, Big Data analysis appeared only two years ago, so the potential for studying this field of knowledge is enormous.

Thanks to working with Big Data, business problems are solved, such as, for example, predicting the likelihood of a loan refund or a client leaving a certain company, but Big Data is not limited to commercial interests - CERN physicists use them to find new particles, test and refute hypotheses about the structure of our universe.

Several research groups will be formed in the laboratory, the first of which will devote its work to physics. Together with the School of Data Analysis, which is a member of the LHCb experiment (http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/), laboratory staff will work on algorithms for analyzing the arrays of data accumulated in CERN when observing particle decay.

The laboratory will be headed by the head of joint projects of the Yandex School of Data Analysis and the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) Andrei Ustyuzhanin. "This laboratory will expand the range of competencies of the Higher School of Economics for the analysis of heterogeneous data sets," Ustyuzhanin said, "we plan to cover tasks from both scientific and business areas. Our goals include extracting practical benefits from available data, as well as enriching methods for finding new patterns. Our immediate plans are to form a team and search for new applied areas of research. "

2014

Created the Faculty of Computer Science with the participation of Yandex

In March 2014, with the participation of Yandex, a new faculty was created at the university - the Faculty of Computer Science, which combined the departments of software engineering and applied mathematics and computer science, as well as the basic department of Yandex.

Moscow Center for Research and Development EMS and HSE created a design and training group on bioinformatics

The EMS Moscow Center for Research and Development for Cloud Computing and Big Data (EMC Research Center) and the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) signed an agreement on the start of cooperation in December 2014, which provides for the creation of a design and training group on bioinformatics. The group included students, graduate students and teachers of the Higher School of Economics. The project manager from the EMS Research and Development Center was Meier Evgenia, Director of Business Development at the EMS Research and Development Center.

Bioinformatics is one of the most promising areas of computer science, which deals with theoretical issues of storage and transmission of information in biological systems. The main section of bioinformatics is computer genomics, which solves the problems of decoding genetic data stored in DNA and RNA nucleotide sequences. To develop bioinformatics, it is necessary to create computer databases on molecular biology, providing genomics with the necessary experimental data in sufficient quantity and convenient for use.

The formed group will focus on conducting a large-scale study of the bioinformatics market, which will include a detailed description of the entire "ecosystem" of bioinformatics in Russia: bioinformatics programs, information about companies conducting bioinformatics research, as well as educational institutions engaged in the popularization of this branch of science. In addition, specialists will take part in the organization of the spring school of bioinformatics in Moscow, and will also create a Russian-language online course "Bioinformatics" - a continuation of the program of the Research Center of EMS "Introduction to Big Data Analytics," which can be found on the website of the National Open University "INTUIT."

EMS Research Center and HSE have already had experience working together: the corporation's experts have repeatedly delivered lectures to students on such topical topics as big data analytics and storage systems.

2013: Launch of cooperation with Coursera platform

In 2013, the Higher School of Economics began its cooperation with the international educational platform Coursera. Over the year, more than 350,000 people from 190 different countries enrolled in HSE courses, and in May 2017, the number of participants in HSE online courses on Coursera reached 1 million users.

IT project at the Higher School of Economics

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