From Spring 2015 the highest-achieving undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Computer Science Faculty will be eligible for the Ilya Segalovich grant – named after the founder of Yandex. All students – including first years – will be able to apply for the grant.
Education
The Higher School of Economics and Yandex are opening a Faculty of Computer Science to train specialists in Theoretical and Applied Computer Science and Software Engineering. Former director of Yandex' educational programmes, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Ivan Arzhantsev will be the dean of the new Faculty.
Students from the Faculty of Computer Science participate in two teacher-student research teams.