About the School

The school was created in 2014 alongside the Faculty of Computer Science out of the Joint Department with Yandex, which is now part of the FCS. The school is centred around research groups conducting world-class research in machine learning, theoretical computer science, distributed computing, scalable algorithms for big data processing, computer vision, text processing, information retrieval, and graphical models. School staff members regularly participate in prestigious international IT conferences.

Dmitry Vetrov, PhD and lecturer at the Yandex School of Data Analysis, was the head of the school from its foundation until September 1, 2015, when Vladimir Podolsky, PhD, associate professor at the school, and senior researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, took over. On September 1, 2022, Evgeny Sokolov, associate professor at the school, academic supervisor of the Continuing Education Centre, and academic supervisor of the Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and Information Science,‎ became the new head of the school.

There are internship opportunities for students and graduate students at major Russian IT companies (Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, Sber, T-Bank). Staff of the school and the Yandex School of Data Analysis jointly developed theMaster’s in Modern Computer Science and theBachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and Information Science.