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Laboratory of Bioinformatics organised the first international summer school in bioinformatics. The school was held online on August 24-28.

Any student or 2020 graduate of a Russian or international university is eligible to take part in the Student Research Paper Competition. Papers can be submitted from September 1 to October 15. The competition has been held at HSE University since 2003.

ELLIS is a leading European association in the field of artificial intelligence

Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) of the Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University held the sixth summer school on Machine Learning in High Energy Physics (MLHEP) on July 16-30. The school was organised in cooperation with Yandex School of Data Analysis and EPFL High Energy Physics Laboratory. This year the school was listed as an official EPFL course with 4 ECTS credits awarded to the participants successfully passing the school requirements.

The Joint Department with 1C will train highly qualified engineers and developers with mathematical expertise, strong research profiles, and a fluency in modern software tools. Department graduates will be able to effectively solve both system-related and applied problems in business automation.

Faculty of Computer Science thrives and flourishes even during the pandemic. We have already told you how the Faculty switched to distance learning . However, the Faculty is a research centre as well as the educational one. It comprises twelve laboratories researching into data science, theoretical computer science, process-oriented information systems, bioinformatics, financial technologies, and other fields of study. We want to tell you about the progress of research at the Faculty of Computer Science during the first half of 2020.

Over the last decades, the International Mathematics Competition for University Students has acquired universal fame and recognition, as well as sponsorships from companies like Huawei and Wolfram. Every year, hundreds of participants from around the globe meet in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria to compete.

Meet Madina Atymkhanova, 2^nd year master student from Kazakhstan studying Data Science at the Faculty of Computer Science. She told us about advantages of HSE University, upcoming international mobility and what motivates her in life.

What defines a good university? Is it students’ achievements, cutting-edge research, or bright projects? The success of the university depends on many different things – that’s why international university rankings use complex methodologies and take many criteria into account. The administration is a thing often forgotten. They are often overlooked, despite being responsible for a lot of stuff. To correct this injustice, we are starting a series on the invisible heroes of the academe. Our first is Ekaterina Volzhenina, manager of the Centre of Deep Learning and Bayesian Methods, who is also teaching history at HSE University. She told us about the transformation of her work during the quarantine, how our ancestors fought the Pechenegs and tried to answer the main question: hard and soft science?

Students of the first cohort of the HSE’s online Master of Data Science are now completing their first semester. Offered entirely online on Coursera, the programme attracts students from all over the world. HSE News Service spoke with two international students about what drew them to the programme, the courses they have taken so far, and what their online student community is like.