The HSE AI and Digital Science Institute presented a multi-agent hardware–software system that analyses the parameters of industrial equipment and helps detect signs of malfunction at an early stage. The system was presented at the 4^th Professional Conference for the IT and Engineering Community in the Oil and Gas Industry. 

Around 300 international students at HSE University took part in Russian Culture Day. Students from Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia, Egypt, Vietnam, China, Pakistan, Brazil, and other countries joined their Russian peers to discover Russian traditions, try their hand at playing traditional Russian folk instruments, and take part in quizzes testing their knowledge of Russian history and culture.

The HSE Academic Council has reviewed the results of the recently completed admissions campaign. Around 21,000 students have been admitted to state-funded and fee-paying undergraduate, specialist degree, and master’s programmes.

In 2026, the HSE Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies celebrates its 15th anniversary. In this interview, Mikhail Blinkin, the institute’s founder and Academic Supervisor, explains how the institute came into being, what goals and objectives it was originally set up to achieve, and why its work has gradually expanded far beyond its initial specialisation.

Maxim Zhiganov has been exploring different aspects of sound for many years—first in relation to his native Perm and then on a broader, global scale. In this interview for the HSE Young Scientists project, he talks about sound maps, the special issue of the journal Logos, and why it is important to make the familiar less clear and obvious.

Researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with international colleagues, have shown that by the end of first grade, children have already developed an important eye-movement skill for reading. Children’s gazes tend to land near the beginnings of words, whereas adults tend to target areas closer to the centres of words. The more fluent the reading, the closer saccadic targeting is to the word centre.

Raihanullah Mohmand, from Afghanistan, is a recent graduate of the HSE Master's in Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication. He is currently based in Moscow and preparing to pursue a PhD in communication and journalism studies. Raihanullah told the HSE News Service about why the university meets his expectations both in the classroom and beyond, how the challenges of adapting to a new country helped broaden his academic perspective, and what an afternoon in the park can teach about intercultural communication.

The sixth season of the International Olympiad on Financial Security has now come to an end. The final week was held at Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk. More than 700 participants from over 40 countries reached the finals, including six HSE University students who scored victories across a number of areas.

HSE University hosted the first international conference on vibe coding, VIBE CODING RUSSIA 2026. More than 450 participants and speakers from universities, banks, the telecommunications and cybersecurity sectors, and the vibe-coding community discussed how AI is shortening the path from research findings to products and who is responsible for code written by an algorithm.