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Alexey Tolkachev, a student of the Master of Data Science online programme, a leading data analyst, talked with us about his victory in the Agro Code hackathon, shared his impressions of the programme, and explained why he plans to pursue computer vision in the future.

Here is Mikhail Kazantsev, a second-year student of the Financial Technologies and Data Analysis master's programme. He is currently studying in Paris at École Polytechnique via a mobility programme. We talked to him about academic mobility in the midst of a pandemic.

Professor Oleg Melnikov is among the international professors invited to work remotely with HSE University’s students this academic year. He lives in California, runs the Data Science department at a company in Palo Alto, and teaches at Stanford and other universities in the United States. At HSE University he teaches a course on machine learning for the students of the Faculty of Computer Science and the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF), as well as a university-wide optional course, ‘Machine Learning in Python’. He spoke about his work in an interview with the HSE News Service.

Applications are now open for the international postdoctoral positions at laboratories of the Faculty. The application deadline is February 14.

We are proud to announce that in 2020 eight candidates of computer science defended their theses at the Faculty. There have been six candidate defences in 2019. Prior to 2018, there were only degrees of candidate and doctor of technical or physical-mathematical sciences in Russia. Degrees in computer science have become possible due to HSE University's ability to grant its own degrees.

Upon successfully defending his dissertation before HSE Dissertation Council in Computer Science, Pavel Dvurechensky became the first Doctor of Computer Science in Russia. This was possible thanks to the fact that, starting in 2018, HSE University received the right to award its own academic degrees.

Maria Poptsova, head of the International Laboratory of Bioinformatics and associate professor of the Big Data and Information Retrieval School, spoke at the AI Journey 2020 conference on artificial intelligence with a presentation “Deep Learning in Genomics”.

Coursera has listed the most popular courses in 2020 among users from Russia. ‘Basics of Programming in Python’ by HSE Unviersity is among the top five.

It is a custom to tally up the year's results in December. We would like to tell you the results of the scientific life at the Faculty of Computer Science in 2020. You can read about the first half of the year in our previous digest. While this was not a year on which we shall look back with undiluted pleasure, but we still managed to achieve important results, adapted to changing circumstances, and made our best.

HSE scientists have proposed a way to improve the accuracy of finding Z-DNA, or DNA regions that are twisted to the left instead of to the right. To do this, they used neural networks and a dataset of more than 30,000 experiments conducted by different laboratories around the world. Details of the study are published in Scientific Reports.