Yandex School Students Proceed with Studying

September 15, 2014 – Novosibirsk students started their classes at the Yandex School of Data Analysis, a free two-year Master’s-level program aimed at teaching how to apply data processing and analysis to the Internet and Internet search algorithms. The Novosibirsk branch of the school was launched on the NSU base in 2013.

The second enrollment to the Yandex School at NSU for 2014-2016 academic years counts 26 junior and seniors students as well as graduate and postgraduate students. During the first term the students are to study two core subjects, namely the course on Discrete Analysis and the Theory of Probability and Algorithms and Structures of Search Data. The former course is provided by an instructor at the Physics and Mathematics School, a researcher at the Institute of Computational Technologies (SB RAS) Alexander Avdyushenko; the latter – by a postgraduate student at the A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems (SB RAS) Stepan Gatilov and an NSU alumnus Svyatoslav Scherbina, who both train students teams at NSU for international programming competitions. A course on C++ will be taught by another NSU alumnus and a Yandex developer, Evgeny Sidorenko.

During the first term, classes are scheduled to be conducted three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

According to the lead of the faculty at the Yandex School, Prof. Ilya Muchnik, ”The goal of this academic program is to give students a top-notch but also practical education where they can develop the talents and knowledge that can immediately be applied upon entering the workforce. Many of the fundamental technologies that Internet users around the world use every day were developed in Russia, and this program is designed to centralize that academic know-how and ensure that innovation continues long into the future. This program builds upon the long Russian tradition of strong, math-based data analysis skills with practical, commercial applications.” The school trains students not only for Yandex but also for IT in general. Established 7 years ago, it has already given education to more than 300 specialists. The Novosibirsk branch has become the fourth after those in Ekaterinburg, Minsk and Kiev; the Yandex School of Data Analysis also helped to create St. Petersburg’s Computer Science Center