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August is an exciting time for entering colleges and universities. Applicants submit documents pass entrance exams or receive additional points and enter the dream university thanks to their victories in the competition.Thus Pavel Shkolyansky from Murmansk and Tatyana Ovchinnikova from Moscow after winning the first district hackathon of the project Digital Breakthrough. Season Artificial Intelligence - one of the projects of the presidential platform Russia is a Land of Opportunities became interested in studying artificial intelligence and entered the budget for a masters program as part of the AI Talent Hub Machine Learning Engineering at ITMO. At the entrance exam the winners received additional points for the status in the project and the solution created at the hackathon.42-year-old Pavel Shkolyansky and 39-year-old Tatyana Ovchinnikova took part in the Far Eastern District hackathon of the Digital Breakthrough Season Artificial Intelligence project for the first time in 2022 they gathered a team on the platform and tried their hand at solving the problem of route planning for a group of robots with using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The first hackathon was successful and breakthrough - the team took first place won 300000 rubles decided to further study this area and develop professionally.I told my teammates that I could try to enroll in the Masters program Machine Learning Engineering at ITMO. We would not have acted without the participation and most importantly the victory of our team in the Digital Breakthrough competition says Pavel.Tatyana Ovchinnikova head of the IT product at MTS Digital chose the specialty Machine Learning Engineering when she entered the ITMO masters program in order to further specialize in the direction of AI Product Manager and add more high-tech products to the portfolio.Without participating in the Digital Breakthrough hackathon I would not have realized how interested I am in the topic of AI ML it was my task for the hackathon to understand this for myself and I would not even have thought about the university at all. Previously I considered only American universities I didnt even suspect that in Russia there is a fairly developed system of education in such subjects. Moreover it was a surprise for me that it was the Russian university that is the absolute world champion in programming. Its a great luck for me to learn from the best The winner of the hackathon admitted Tatiana Ovchinnikova.ITMOs Masters Program in Machine Learning Engineering was created jointly with Napoleon IT. The peculiarity of the program is that students will study online under the guidance of experienced mentors in the format of a distributed project office like in large IT companies - and in two years they will receive skills corresponding to the level of Middle Machine Learning Engineer. Dmitry Botov head of the MA in Machine Learning Engineering at ITMO and the AI Talent Hub project spoke about the goals of this program One of the key objectives of the program is to recruit confident Junior Junior guys motivated for professional development in first of all those who have project experience in ML DS. The winners of the Digital Breakthrough hackathon proved in practice that that they have a good base and are ready to deal with the difficulties that await them. This path will not be easy. But if a person has decided in life and clearly knows what results he wants to achieve then he will succeed And program mentors from leading IT companies will help students with this.The mentors of the program spoke about how exactly the training will be built. So Daniil Potapov Head of Data Science Analytics Big Data MTS Digital emphasized that this masters program is a beneficial interaction between business and universities the former receive more experienced employees who are ready for higher career positions the latter receive an educational program after which not just graduates come out but specialists for the labor market. And all together they get an environment in which specialists of different levels can develop and grow.Valentin Malykh senior researcher at Huawei Noahs Ark laboratory spoke about the interaction between the university and the company For more than 30 years there has been a strategy aimed at creating a development base for Huawei. It seems to me that any large company should think about its future. These reflections lead to on the one hand companies get access to students who then come to work for them.On the other hand even if the student does not come the company transfers experience so that talents can become strong specialists who together make the market better.We develop the environment and get benefits both directly in the form of people who come to us and in the form of the environment itself from which strong specialists will also come to Huawei.And understanding thisHuawei is focusing on interactions with universities.The main goals of the project Digital Breakthrough. Season Artificial Intelligence creation of a personnel selection system for solving problems search development and support of talented promising specialists who want to create products and services using artificial intelligence technologies increasing the level of providing the Russian AI technology market with qualified personnel as well as the formation and development of the AI community popularization development and development of products using artificial intelligence.
