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Students and staff of the ‘Game Engineering and Interactive Systems’ workshop at MIEM HSE have been exploring approaches to processing multitext data, ie objects represented by a collection of texts with associated meta-information. The team produced the GameFuse dataset, which the project leader Feodor Zakharov presented it at the IEMTRONICS 2024 conference; the paper was awarded the 2024 Reviewers’ Choice Best Paper Certificate.

On April 7, university students and staff took part in a major Moscow race named April. Maxim Liksakov, a student at HSE University, managed to set a new competition record and win first place. HSE University Rector Nikita Anisimov, who also took part in the competition, congratulated Maksim on his victory.

The 18th Open Olympiad in Informatics was held in March at four locations; Moscow, Perm, Lipetsk and Tehran. The Olympiad included an online qualifying round and an on-site final round, which was attended by 435 schoolchildren from many countries, including Russia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia, and Germany. The event was co-organised by HSE University.

HSE University has launched a competition for solutions using artificial intelligence technology in theses work. The goal of the competition is to evaluate how students use tools based on generative models in their 2024 graduation theses (GT).

On March 22, the Atrium on Pokrovsky Boulevard turned into a venue to celebrate ‘Holi: the Festival of Colours,’ organised by the Department of Internationalisation. The festival was put together on the initiative of the HSE Indian Club in cooperation and with the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre of the Embassy of India.

In early March, the HSE building on Pokrovsky Bulvar hosted theRussian Culture Day Festival. The event was organised by the HSE Department of Internationalisation. International students participated in quizzes, lectures, and workshops. They also had the opportunity to taste a traditional Russian dish—blini with jam.

In mid-March, HSE University celebrated one of the most enjoyable traditional feasts in Russia—Maslenitsa. The cheerful atmosphere allowed students to forget about their studies while they sang songs, danced in circles, took part in competitions, and, of course, ate pancakes and gingerbread.

For the third time, HSE University Faculty of Computer Science has held a winter school in software engineering, with over 1000 participants registering for the event. Representatives from the Faculty of Computer Science and its partner companies, including Yandex, Sber, Tinkoff, and MTS, delivered lectures at the school.