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On April 21, 2023, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration held a seminar “Why do different digital public services differ so much in the response of social media users? Empirical data on the way towards a formal model”. The speakers were Professor Andrei Akhremenko, intern researcher of the laboratory Ilya Philippov and graduate student Vadim Egorov.

HSE University took first place in the 2022 ranking of the top universities in Russia according to HeadHunter, the biggest online recruitment company in Russia. Its rankings are based on employer demand for graduates of Russian universities whose CVs are available on the hh.ru website.

On April 18, the defense of the PhD thesis of  Ekaterina Vladimirovna Maklasova, a junior research fellow  at the Center for Sociocultural Research, on the topic “Individual values of Russians and the ecological and economic context of regions as factors of corruption” took place

The HSE International Laboratory of Intangible-Driven Economy has recently accepted 11 trainees into its team. Each of them is ready to develop their strong skills and learn something new in the laboratory.

Natural language processing methods are one of the advanced machine learning methods and allow for the analysis and synthesis of text data. In particular, NLP methods solve problems such as classification, comparison and text generation. NLP methods are actively developing and their study is relevant both for fundamental research and for the implementation of applied projects.

We invite everyone to join the celebration on April 22, 2023. Birthday of the Faculty of Social Sciences!

VTB, CNews, and Skolkovo have announced the winners of the Data Fusion Awards 2023, a nationwide cross-industry award in the sphere of big data technology. The awards recognise the top projects in the public sector, business, and education. The English-taught Master’s programme Math of Machine Learning, implemented jointly by HSE University’s Faculty of Computer Science and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, was named the educational initiative of the year. Second place in this category was awarded to the Graduate School of Business’s Master’s programme Business Analytics and Big Data Systems.

The Center for Digital Transformation of Public Administration of the Lomonosov Moscow State University held an international round table. Head of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration (Institute for Public Administration and Governance of the HSE University) Evgeny Styrin, made a presentation on "Data-based Public Administration: Effects, Risks, Barriers".

In 2023, the traditional HSE-Perm International Conference on Applied Research in Economics (iCare) will be held as a series of events. One of these events will be the seminar "Sport Analytics: Exploring Economic and Managerial Insights", organized by the International Laboratory for Intangible-driven economy (IDLab).

Throughout the year, the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) is hosting consulting seminars on ‘Care and Welfare in Post-Socialist Eurasia: Institutions, Discourses, Identities’ with presentations by leading foreign experts. The first seminar in the series, ‘Conceptualising Social Activism’ was held on April 4 with the participation of Professor Linda Cook, Academic Supervisor of HSE ILSIR. The second one will take place on April 18.