Huawei Novosibirsk Research Institute (NRI Huawei) has been cooperating with NSTU NETI in education for more than a year. Last semester, the University held a grant competition for undergraduates and graduate students. 10 winners received financial support.
In winter semester 2020-2021 NSTU NETI and NRI Huawei successfully reiterated the experience in supporting talented students. This time, they provided support not only for 10 University students (4 graduate students and 6 undergraduates), but also for 4 post-graduate University students.
Undergraduates V. Shperling I. Isakov V. Shatalov V. Mamatov, A. Mizyukanova and I. Kedik will receive 25,000 rubles a month (pre-tax) during the entire semester. Graduate students: Y. Maidebura, V. Kukotenko A. Slepnev, J. Chetvertakova will receive 30,000 rubles per month (pre-tax) during the academic semester.
"All participants of the competition have demonstrated a high level of motivation, a desire to learn more and to improve their skills. Many scholarship recipients are winners of Russian and international competitions and believe that there is no room for complacency. Graduate students and post-graduate students of NSTU NETI showed a high level of research in diverse areas of expertise, logical reasoning for solving practice-oriented problems and suggestions of possible technological solutions which is particularly important for transformation of science-intensive knowledge into practical solutions that improves people's lives", said Sergey Gololobov, the head of Math Libraries Division, NRI Huawei.
As part of the sponsorship program, the following post-graduate students were supported: A. Grif, N. Kondratiev, V. Kolesnev and D. Mykhaylenko.Post-graduate students and their research advisors will receive Huawei's financial support to conduct research for 10 months. The total amount of financial support for the entire period for a post-graduate student and their research advisor will be 650,000 rubles (pre-tax). At the first stage, post-graduate students competed in academic performance rates and publications in top-rated academic journals; the candidates' participation in research grants was also taken into account. "NSTU NETI aims at conducting applied research, offering approaches and possible technological solutions to current issues and concerns. It was the applied research prospect that we kept in mind while assessing the work of post-graduates, since we sought to determine whether their proposed ideas can be implemented in the future, to become a likely new technology or product. Huawei's graduate student support program at NSTU NETI already provides excellent conditions for integrating competitive market approaches, real University's business and research capabilities," said Igor Solodov, the head of Big Data and Machine Learning Division at NRI Huawei.