MASNA graduates never cease to amaze us with their talents!

Ekaterina Melianova and Artem Volgin became winners of two international competitions on data analysis at once!

We have already shared with you the news that while they were still sophomores in the Master's program "Applied Statistics with Network Analysis," Katya and Artem won first place in the DS4G: Environmental Insights Explorer competition, which was held on the Kaggle platform.

Within literally six months, the guys were in the spotlight again! Two very different international analytical competitions, the CDP: Unlocking Climate Solutions Kaggle Competition and The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, in which professors and students in Ph.D. programmes from Georgia Tech, Iowa University, Virginia Polytechnic University, University of Washington, MIT, and many others competed. Katya and Artem took 2nd place and received $25,000 in prize money - showing themselves to be the best even in fields with which they are barely familiar. 

We heartily congratulate Katya and Artem for their series of remarkable victories! And we are sure that this is just the beginning of their professional future.