Big Data and Information Retrieval School

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.

Facts and Figures

  • 222 

    staff members

  • 5 

    joint departments

  • 2 

    research programmes

  • 3 

    seminars

School Management

Evgeny Sokolov

Department Head

Artem Maksaev

Deputy Head