As part of the "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" national program, a competitive selection of research centers in the field of artificial intelligence, including in the field of "strong" artificial intelligence, trusted artificial intelligence systems, and ethical aspects of application of artificial intelligence was held in 2021.
The competition received 36 applications from Russian universities and scientific organizations. As a result of the competitive procedures, 6 research centers in the field of artificial intelligence on the basis of educational and scientific organizations have been selected: Skoltech, Innopolis, ITMO, NRU HSE, MIPT, and ISP RAS.
Selected research centers received 900 million rubles in grants in 2021. The total amount of grant funds, including extrabudgetary funding, until 2024 will be 7 billion rubles.
Cooperation with industrial partners and partners of the center in conducting research and educational activities.
Development of software and hardware frameworks with a high level of technological readiness;
Conducting educational events, including lectures, seminars, and training courses;
Support of frameworks in the field of artificial intelligence;
Commercialization of research and development results;
Creation and support of frameworks in the field of artificial intelligence;
The Research Center implements the project “Artificial Intelligence for Optimizing Managerial Decisions to Reduce Carbon Footprint”.
The project aims to create software based on strong AI technologies to reproduce the creative professional functions of an industry specialist to develop solutions for the processes of digital transformation and intellectualization of industrial production.
Potential consumers of the solutions are industrial organizations of the real sector of the economy.
A key implementation partner is PJSC Gazprom Neft, so one of the key objectives of the Center is integrated planning of oil and gas field development and development.
Monitoring and modeling of carbon footprint and environmental pollution involves:
Consolidation of multimodal data to build predictive models;
Modeling of complex physical and socio-economic phenomena;
Development of a new class of energy-efficient and high-performance models.
The Center's strategic partners are Sber, Yandex, Gazprom Neft and CityAir.
The Center's programs of cooperation with partner companies include creating software to assess atmospheric air quality, optimize managerial decisions in oil production, analyze the risks posed by climate change and refine weather forecasts.
2 courses of lectures and seminars on the center's subjects formed and conducted
14 postgraduate students who are employees of the center
3 engaged industrial partners
7 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
7 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the Center:
Burnaev Evgeny Vladimirovich
The Research Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems is engaged in the creation of hardware and software based on open platform solutions for the development of conversational assistants, robotic systems and unmanned vehicles with text, voice, photo and video services.
In the process of work will be created prototypes of solutions with elements of strong artificial intelligence for use in e-commerce and several other areas. Sberbank of Russia is a strategic partner of the Center.
1 formed and conducted course of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center
12 post-graduate students who are employees of the Center
2 engaged industrial partner
1 AI article published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
3 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the Center:
Kondratiev Vyacheslav Vladimirovich
The Artificial Intelligence Center of NRU-HSE aims to create platform software or hardware/software (software/APO) based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. To do this, the Center's specialists will:
Conduct basic research;
Develop software tools for industrial partners;
Create open software libraries for the social sphere.
The industrial partners of the center are Sberbank, Yandex and MTS.
For the Sber ecosystem, the Center plans to develop AI tools for online education, work with human resources, as well as assessment and risk management in the banking sector. AI technologies will also be used in the Sber system to evaluate goods on virtual platforms.
Together with Yandex, the Center plans to create algorithms for car autopiloting. AI technologies will also be used to categorize complex user traits and optimize pricing on the crowdsourcing platform Yandex.Toloka.
MTS, together with the Center, will develop conditional generation models to significantly improve sound and image quality, as well as approaches to distill neural network models.
The results will be able to influence many of the processes and products of all of the Center's industrial partners.
4 formed and conducted course of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center
11 post-graduate students who are employees of the Center
3 engaged industrial partners
5 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
5 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the Center:
Masyutin Alexey Alexandrovich
Research Center is developing methods and technologies for creation of trusted artificial intelligence systems. These solutions will reduce the risks of introducing AI in industrial systems.
The aim of the Center is the formation and implementation of methods and appropriate software and hardware platforms for the development and verification of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the required level of confidence. During the implementation of the program, the Center plans to carry out:
Fundamental and applied research in the field of trusted artificial intelligence;
Development of a scalable (cloud) platform, including specialized tools for the development of trusted AI systems, as well as a corresponding PAC;
Creation and moderation of a distributed community of leading Russian scientists on the Center's topics and consumer ecosystem on the basis of the principle of equal accessibility of the Center's results;
Preparation of highly qualified personnel through the implementation of new training courses on the subjects of the Center and the involvement of students and young professionals in all activities of the Center, including the development of applied trusted AI systems.
The industrial partners of the Center are Kaspersky Lab, ES-Leasing, Interprocom LLC, and TECHNOPROM.
2 courses of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center;
8 postgraduate students who are the employees of the center;
4 engaged industrial partners;
1 AI article published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
2 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the Center:
Turdakov Denis Yurievich
The research center implements the task of accelerating the transition of priority sectors of the digital economy, their digital transformation and solving the problems of industrial partners through machine learning and hardware and software based on artificial intelligence technologies.
The Center plans to develop the following industry-specific hardware and software complexes, which will be included in the register of domestic software:
Petrochemicals and Chemistry;
Transport;
Power Engineering;
Logistics;
Medicine;
Provision of services in electronic form.
For the industrial partners of the center, the cooperation will solve significant problems of reducing the cost of technological maintenance and repair of aircraft and urban transport, optimization of warehouse operations and personnel management at the sites.
Cooperation with partners in the field of chemistry will solve the problems of reducing the number of physical experiments and simplifying the introduction of new products to the market of road bitumen.
The objectives of cooperation with strategic partners in the field of medicine are to improve the efficiency of radiation diagnostics and to create a competitive advantage for the developer of CAMI.
2 formed and conducted courses of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the center
9 postgraduate students, who are the employees of the center
10 industrial partners engaged
6 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
5 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the Center:
Kuleev Ramil Fuatovich
The research center aims to create software based on strong AI technologies to reproduce the creative professional functions of the industry specialist to develop solutions that provide the processes of digital transformation and intellectualization of industrial production.
Potential consumers of the solutions are industrial organizations of the real sector of the economy.
The key implementation partner is PJSC Gazprom Neft, so one of the key objectives of the Center is integrated planning of oil and gas field development and development.
In October 2021, the Center became the winner of the grant competition within the framework of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence"
43 postgraduate students who are employees of the center
1 engaged industrial partner
2 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
12 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences
Head of the center:
Bukhanovsky Alexander Valerievich
The number of articles on AI that were published in the 1st quartile journals indexed in WOS/Scopus systems - 41
Number of publications at A* level conferences in the field of AI - 36
Number of frameworks on AI formed and supported (cumulative total) - 9
Number of articles on AI that were published in 1st quartile journals indexed in WOS/Scopus systems - 47
Number of publications at A* level conferences in the field of AI - 45
Number of AI frameworks formed and supported (cumulative total) - 11
Number of AI articles published in 1st quartile journals indexed in WOS/Scopus systems - 55
Number of publications at A* level conferences in the field of AI - 51
Number of formed and supported AI frameworks (cumulative total) - 13
A competitive selection of research centers in the field of AI was carried out. Selected 6 research centers.
900 million rubles was allocated in the form of grants for the development of centers in 2021.