AI-ACADEMY :: The Artificial Intelligence Academy for Teens. About us.

About us

The Artificial Intelligence Academy for Teens is an international educational project under SberBank`s Charitable Foundation «Investment to the Future» supported by Sber. The AI-Academy aims to educate and guide talents among teens in the field of artificial intelligence.

We believe that, in future, AI based technologies will be presented in all areas. Therefore, it is important to learn how AI works and how it can be used. AI-Academy creates self-study materials for students, educational content and training materials for teachers to use as a part of school programme or extracurricular activities so that school education to keep up with changes in IT.

For those who seeks professional development in the field of artificial intelligence, we are creating new opportunities — competitions with practical challenges and valuable prizes, advantages for university admission to leading universities, internships at the SberBank.

AI-Academy'S activities

Training for students

Competitions are an important part of the project, because they allow participants to apply their knowledge and skills to solve practical problems.

Since 2019, the main competition of the AI-Academy has been held in the format of an All-Russian Contest in partnership with NTI Contest: the annual high school student team tech competition. Best participants can win valuable prizes, certificates for education and get privileged access to the leading universities in Russia.

Start training

Competitions

Competitions are an important part of the project, because they allow participants to apply their knowledge and skills to solve practical problems.

More about Contest

AI Academy for teachers

The main goal of the AI-Academy for teens is to give each student an opportunity to receive relevant knowledge and develop in the field of artificial intelligence.

Academy`s experts work on brand-new educational materials which can be introduced into the curriculum of school lessons as well as on advanced training courses in the field of machine learning.

All materials for teachers can be found in the respective section of our website in Russian.

Our experts

Alexey Natekin

AI Academy expert, Founder of the Open Data Science
Graduated the faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St Petersburg University, PhD student at TUM

Expand

Tatiana Shavrina

Head of division at SberBank, team lead of the Research & Development in NLP team, responsible for research and development of experimental text processing technologies
Graduated National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, School of linguistics and Faculty of Computer Science, faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lead the group for the development of an automatic checking for the Unified State Exam for the Russian language
Author of 13 scientific publications in ndustry-leading conferences and journals in the field of NLP, the first of which was made when Tatiana was in the 9th grade
Exchange student in 3 universities around the world: in Finland, Portugal and the UK

Expand

Sergey Aksenov

Senior Data Scientist at SberBank
Graduated of the faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Lecturer at MIPT and HSE
Member of the ACL and ELRA

Expand

Nonna Shakhova

AI Academy expert, Data Engineer
Organizer of ODS meetups, project Manager at the Data Souls
Graduated St. Petersburg Mining University
Supports the Women in Data Science (HSE), IT-Girls (Microsoft) initiatives

Expand

Maria Tikhonova

Leading Data Scientist at SberBank
PhD student at the Faculty of Computer Science of Higher School of Economics
Graduated the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the School of Data Analysis

Expand

Dmitry Konyrev

Master in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, graduated National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute"
Product manager of AI products at SberBank
Leader of a team that developed the "Robot-Lawyer" project for an automation of legal due diligence in the "Credit in 7 minutes" process
Head of the "Digital manager" project, an automated system to help managers in decision-making
Member of ACL

Expand

Mark Potanin

Senior Data Scientist at Sberbank
PhD student at MIPT

Expand

Denis Dimitrov

Senior Data Scientist at SberBank
PhD student of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Participant in working groups for grants of the Russian Science Foundation

Expand

Dmitry Bogdanov

AI Academy expert, expert of the Moscow Center for the Technological Modernization of Education and the project competition "TechnoPark"
Coordinator and teacher at Yandex.Lyceum and Samsung IT School
Computer science teacher at School №1474 in Moscow
Russian Unified State Exam expert in Informatics and ICT
Graduated the Moscow Aviation Institute, PhD at the Department of Informatics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Winner of the profecctional competition "New teacher of new informatics. Reboot" in 2018 and 2019 years

Expand