SPbU’s IT specialists to collaborate with City University of Hong Kong
The department of computer sciences from the City University of Hong Kong has paid an official visit to SPbU to discuss the opportunities to expand academic mobility and collaborate in computer and information sciences.
The event was visited by the head of the office for international educational collaboration Anna Porodina and SPbU’s scientists in informatics, information-analytical systems, computer modelling, multiprocessor systems, and biotechnologies.
“Each semester SPbU accepts 1-2 students from the City University of Hong Kong, mostly in the humanities. Still we are open to expand our collaboration, — said Anna Porodina. — Today SPbU has a framework agreement on collaboration and an agreement on student exchange with the City University of Hong Kong, and we are ready to sign an additional agreement on student exchange programmes on under-graduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels in computer and information sciences”.
Prof Sam Tak-Vu Kvon, head of the department of computer sciences, delivered a presentation about the City University of Hong Kong. The department, as part of the College of Science and Engineering, focuses on artificial intelligence, IT education, bioinformatics, cloud technologies, data analysis, integrated systems, information security and safety, software engineering, and others. “The City University of Hong Kong collaborates with the universities worldwide, and we are interested in joint research with your professors and students”, — said Prof Kvon.
SPbU’s scientists, in their turn, told about what research the University is undertaking in this field. Associate Professor Vladimir Korkhov, Department of Computer Modelling and Multiprocessor Systems, delivered a report on distributed and parallel computing in data analysis and modelling of natural phenomena, while Andrei Przhibelskii, junior research associate at the SPbU’s “Centre for Algorithmic Biotechnology”, focused on what research the University is carrying out in bioinformatics , and Prof Boris Novikov, head of the Department of Informatics, made a presentation on how to optimize complex analytical working processes.
“The City University of Hong Kong is definitely interested in our developments and advances. We have exchanged contacts and agreed to continue negotiations, — said Boris Novikov. — For us, collaboration with the department of computer sciences is strategically important, as they are regarded as scientists of a very high calibre. Now we have to discuss the opportunities for joint research, but definitely our research scope is big data application and analysis, computational optimization in data analysis and multi-criteria optimization. These are the areas our colleagues are particularly interested in”.
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City University of Hong Kong is a leading university in Asia with excellent academic reputation: it is ranked 55 according to the QS World University Rankings 2016–2017, and 119 according to the THE World University Rankings 2016–2017. Total student body is about 20,000. Graduates of the department of computer sciences became researchers in the world’s leading universities in China, USA, UK, Singapore, and Google offices around the world.