Yandex offers various awards in the fields in which they have experience. Yandex researchers are engaged in inventing innovative solutions to problems that have not yet been solved. Algorithms, methods, and technologies created by them are used in many Yandex projects.
What areas of the project will the prize be awarded to?
- Speech recognition and synthesis;
- Computer vision;
- Information search;
- Natural language processing and machine translation;
- Generative models.
Nominations
- First edition;
- Researchers;
- Young scientific leaders;
- Scientific supervisors;
- Teachers of machine learning.
One of the main conditions for participation in the program is a specialty, bachelor’s, master’s, or postgraduate degree in one of the higher educational institutions or scientific research institutes in Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan. The prize fund consists of a cash prize of 500,000 to 1,000,000 rubles and a grant of 500,000 rubles for the use of all services on the Yandex Cloud platform. You can find out more about the requirements and the prize at this link.
Prize Board
- Pavel Braslavsky — associate professor of Nazarbayev University, Higher School of Economics;
- Alexander Krainov — the director of development of artificial intelligence technologies at Yandex;
- Yevgeny Burnayev — the head of the artificial intelligence center at Skoltech University;
- Sergey Nikolenko — a senior researcher at the St. Petersburg branch of the Steklov RAN Mathematical Institute and St. Petersburg State University;
- Alexey Gusakov — CTO at Yandex;
- Stanislav Smirnov — a professor at Geneva University, St. Petersburg State University, and Skoltech University.
Members of the committee
- Dmitry Soshnikov — a senior programmer at the Yandex machine learning laboratory;
- Roman Isachenko — the head of Yandex image discriminative analysis group and a candidate in physics and mathematics sciences;
- Konstantin Lakhman — the head of Yandex computer vision and ML-programs department;
- Sergey Kastryulin — Yandex Research researcher;
- Artyom Babenko — Yandex Research researcher, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences;
- Lyudmila Prokhorenkova — leading researcher at Yandex Research, doctor of computer sciences, candidate in physics-mathematical sciences;
- Dmitry Baranchuk — a leading researcher at Yandex Research;
- Aleksey Tolstikov — head of the Yandex School of Data Analysis, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences;
- Aleksandr Garshin — head of Yandex Pogoda service, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences;
- Alexey Drutsa — director of the Yandex technology reception department, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences;
- Dmitry Soshnikov — technical director of the generative SI laboratory, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences;
- Valentina Broner — the academic head of the machine learning department of the Yandex School of Data Analysis and a candidate in physics and mathematics.
Important dates
- Applications can be submitted from May 6 to June 21, 2024;
- Candidates who successfully pass the first stage will be interviewed from July 1 to August 9;
- The winners will be awarded in the fall of 2024.
You can submit entries for the prizes through this link. Source: yandex.ru website