Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

CONTEXT

04–17 Strategic governance About Skoltech Governance and management Organizational chart

18–43 Human capital Academic and non-academic staff Student and alumni community

44–81 Excellence making impact World level research Educating leaders Cultivating entrepreneurial readiness and spirit Technology to market New enterprises and technology licensing Professional training, advisory services

84–95 Local, national and global standing Partnership network Wider community engagement Growing visibility

96–103 Financial performance

104–131 Measuring progress SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

2 PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD

It was the most extraordinary and Advancing the partnership with Sber, challenging year, one that tested Skoltech Founder and a long-lasting the world and each of us. I am partner, we launched a project to especially proud of the way Skoltech create an ecosystem for development responded to the challenges of the and integration of medical pandemic. From the very beginning, applications using AI technologies. our faculty conducted research, The year was also marked with advised the government, explained a milestone: 1000 top level – and thus gave hope to society on graduates capable of working various aspects of the pandemic. in a rapidly changing global Almost 100,000 face shields landscape, future leaders in were engineered by the FabLab science, technology and business and assembled by the Skoltech completed their studies at Skoltech. community – to protect medical It is also important that we staff struggling with the pandemic in recruited a new cohort of students, red zones. Thanks to investments in not compromising the level of the digital capacity, but mostly because incoming class, thanks to successful of our incredible faculty, students and transfer of our outreach and staff, we moved such core processes recruitment campaign to the online as teaching, learning, and operations mode. online, adjusting to virtual meeting After a long break and despite rooms and finding ways to connect market turbulence, Skoltech while working from home. endowment received a generous In times of great uncertainty, we have donation from Sber for academic neither lost sight of our purpose nor development programs. wavered from our commitment. 2020 gave us a chance to review As a participant of the National our current standing and define Technology Initiative, Skoltech aspirations for the future. We designed and delivered a few are entering 2021 with a new technologies. Jointly with MTS, a strategy: the future is full of national telecom giant, we piloted a goals and endeavors, and I look 5G network in Skolkovo based on our forward to this. own software – a project to ensure technology competitiveness and Sincerely, enable state-of-the art applications. Kuleshov SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

4 Strategic development SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 About Skoltech

6 STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

Skoltech was established in 2011 applicants from 170 countries. For in collaboration with MIT with the three years in row, Skoltech evidences vision of being a world-leading a high competition rate: only 2% of institute of science and technology. applicants, going through a multiple Skoltech mission is to impact economy stage merit-based selection, are and society development based on enrolled. academic and technology excellence R&D Centers specializing in Wireless and entrepreneurial spirit. Technologies and IoT, Wireless The strategic programs of the Communication Technologies and 6 Centers, which are the core units, Joint Labs with high-tech companies advance Skoltech research, develop, prototype and facilitate education and innovation agenda scaling of cutting-edge technology in six priority areas – Data Science solutions. Overall, in 2020, Skoltech and Artificial Intelligence, Life researchers conducted almost 350 Sciences and Health, Cutting- projects totaling 1.9 bln Rub. 2 bln edge Engineering and Advanced Rub have been committed for the Materials, Energy Efficiency, coming years. Photonics and Quantum Technology, The launch of 5G pilot zone based Advanced Studies. on Skoltech software and the start Research accomplishments in select of creating AI-based healthcare areas have been recognized as ecosystem jointly with Sber, Skoltech 7 world-class, bringing Skoltech to the Founder and a strong partner, are list of top-100 world’s leading young remarkable achievements of 2020. universities in prestigious Nature Since 2011, Skoltech students, faculty Index ranking (2019). The research and alumni founded dozens of portfolio is funded through Skolkovo enterprises in Russia and abroad, 57 Foundation grant, also national and startups received Skolkovo residency. international grant programs. Skoltech Internationally recognized campus was awarded 6 EU HORIZON grants located in Skolkovo is a home for a and 5 national grants to create world vibrant multicultural community of level labs in the most promising areas 147 faculty, 520 researchers and from scratch. engineers, 1068 students, 404 staff The educational offering of 10 MSc members. 1017 alumni are spread in and 7 doctoral programs attracts Russia and globally, being employed talented and motivated students in top companies, research centers from Russia and the world: in 2020 or continuing for PhD at Skoltech or Skoltech received almost 18 000 world leading universities. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Governance and management

Governing bodies supporting In addition to the governing role, strategic development the Founders contributed to Skoltech in other aspects. Sber made a 100 Skoltech governance framework is mln Rub donation to endowment presented by the General Founders for student development, building Meeting, Board of Trustees, Academic alumni community, co-financing Council, and the President. The of applied research projects. The governing bodies act on the basis National Economic School is chairing of Russian legislation, Charter, development of the methodology to Regulations. measure Skoltech economic impact,

8 which is a key indicator of the new The General Founders Meeting is Strategy. the highest governing authority, empowered to approve the Charter, The Board of Trustees oversees make decisions on Skoltech Skoltech strategic development participation in legal entities, appoint and financial standing, reviews Board of Trustees and the President. proposals and plans on major The principal resolutions included strategic vectors. During the year approval of Skoltech co-founding the Board approved Skoltech the New League of Universities1, annual reporting, budget 2021 establishment of Alumni Association, – 2023, a proposal on student appointments of Board of Trustees development framework, plans for members – Simon Bradley, building alumni community and Founder & CEO of Percent-Edge, fundraising. After wide discussions and Johann Füeller, CEO of on the strategy concept, the Board HYVE AG Innovation Agency approved the Strategy 2021 – and Professor at the University 2025, making recommendations of Innsbruck. In December, the on key indicators and certain Founders unanimously appointed strategic directions. Also, the Board 1 The association of Skoltech, Alexander Kuleshov as the President appointed Viktor Vekselberg as the National Economic School, Moscow School of Social for the second term of office, and Chairman, and Arkady Dvorkovich and Economic Sciences, endorsed the Strategy 2021 – 2025 as the Chair of the Executive European University at St. Petersburg. presented by the President. Committee. 9 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Board of Trustees membership (as of March 1, 2021)

Viktor Vekselberg Chairman of the Board Member of Skolkovo Foundation Board of Directors. Chairman of Renova Group Board. Board member since 2011

Alexander Simon Tony Edward Abramov Bradley F. Chan Crawley Chair of the Founder & CEO President of Ford Professor Board of of Percent-Edge. King Abdullah of Engineering Directors of Board member University of at Massachusetts

10 EVRAZ. Board since 2020 Science and Institute of member since Technology. Technology. 2012 Board member Skoltech since 2016 Founding President. Board member since 2011

Arkady Johann Alexander Andrey Dvorkovich Füller Galitsky Ivanov Chairman of CEO of HYVE Co-Founder First Deputy the Skolkovo AG Innovation of Almaz Minister of Foundation. Agency, Professor Capital. Board Economic Сhair of the at the University member since Development Executive of Innsbruck. 2014 of the Russian Committee Board member Federation. of the Board. since 2020 Board member Board member since 2016 since 2014 STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

Valery Oleg Nikolay Alexander Richard Katkalo Kharkhordin Kudryavtsev Kuleshov Lester First Vice Professor, Rector of Moscow Skoltech Associate Provost, Rector, Political Science Institute of Physics President. Massachusetts Higher School Department, and Technology. Board member Institute of of Economics. Director, Center Board member since 2012 Technology. Board member “Res Publica”, since 2012 Board member since 2016 European University since 2016 in Saint-Petersburg. Board member since 2016

Alexander Alexey Chris Paul Pekka Povalko Repik Skirrow Thompson Viljakainen CEO of RVC. Chairman Former partner Professor, Chairman Board member of the Board at PwC. Chair Keck School of the Board since 2013 of “R-Pharm” of the Audit of Medicine, of Directors JSC. Board Committee USC. Board of Skolkovo member since of the Board. member since Ventures. Board 2016 Board member 2016 member since since 2013 2016 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Academic Council membership (as of March 1, 2021)

Professor Alexander Kuleshov Chairman, Skoltech President

Professor Professor Professor Professor Iskander Akhatov Nikolai Brilliantov Edward Crawley Maxim Fedorov Center for Center for Ford Professor VP Artificial Design, Computational of Engineering Intelligence Manufacturing and Data-Intensive at MIT. Skoltech and and Materials Science and Founding Mathematical 12 Engineering President Modelling

Professor Professor Professor Professor Clement Fortin Ildar Gabitov Mikhail Gelfand Dmitry Kulish Associate Center for VP Biomedical Center for Provost, Photonics Research Entrepreneurship Dean of and Quantum and Innovation Education Materials

Professor Dr. Grigory Professor Professor Anton Ivanov Kabatiansky Keith Stevenson Igor Krichever Space Center Advisor to the Provost Center for President for Advanced Science Studies STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

The Academic Council is a principal governing body to oversee Skoltech educational, scientific, R&D and innovation activities. In 2020, the Council and Committees revisited approaches for managing the Centers and research facilities, provided inputs on policies for student admission, final state attestation, thesis defense. The Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee reviewed more than 200 cases, as well as 30 nominations of the academic staff to awards. The Research and Innovation Committee approved the plans of the shared facilities, purchase requests for research equipment, grant reports.

Dr. Alexander Ekaterina Alexey Professor Fertman Malysheva Ponomarev Valery Director on Representative Senior VP Rubakov Science and of alumni Industrial Moscow State Education, Cooperation University

Skolkovo 13 Foundation

Dr. Alexander Professor Lawrence Safonov Mikhail Stein VP Development Spasennykh VP Center for International Hydrocarbon Business Recovery Affairs, IP

In 2020, when ‘online’, ‘remote’ and ‘digital’ were gaining momentum across the globe, Skoltech shared governance system appeared to be ready for distant operation. In the atmosphere of dialogue, the Academic Council and its committees conducted 35 meetings, more than in any other year, with almost 100% of presence, to ensure a balanced view on the strategy planning, policy making, faculty hiring, teaching & learning.

Alexander Safonov, Vice President for Development, Academic Secretary SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Towards the Strategy 2021 – 2025 a recognized national ‘think’ and ‘act’ tank in priority technology areas. In the light of approaching the 10th No less important will be operational anniversary of Skoltech establishment, excellence enabling a favorable also end of the strategy period environment for students and staff. (2018 – 2020), Skoltech leadership At the end of year, President launched a planning initiative to Alexander Kuleshov introduced the define directions for development on core messages of the Strategy to a five years horizon. Skoltech community during the online The planning cycle, lasting over Town Hall. 10 months, was opened with SWOT, made by the Centers and administration. Further, the task Focusing agenda force of senior management, CREI of the target domains Directors, heads of departments, representatives of the Academic The assessment of Skoltech Council, Board of Trustees defined standing in the target domains a concept to lay a basis for is conducted every two years the Strategy 2021 – 2025. through an independent review The thread running through the of the Centers. The assessment

14 Strategy 2021 – 2025 is Targeting 2020 focused on Centers’ results Excellence Today to Impact Tomorrow. 2016 – 2020, also further plans. To become a full-fledged world-class The international review panels institute of science and technology, indicated topical areas of excellence which makes a substantial economic and international visibility, strong impact, Skoltech will target the highest collaborations, relevance of the level of research, emphasize educational programs to the target scaling of results, and become domains. The reviewers also provided

Skoltech’s potential should serve to attain national development goals and improve the quality of life in Russian cities. Modern digital technology brings a breakthrough in urban services and entrepreneurship.

Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of VEB.RF, Chairman of Skolkovo Foundation Board of Directors STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

recommendations on the research Maxim Fedorov as VP for Artificial agenda and ways to improve the Intelligence and Mathematical educational offering. Modeling and Professor Mikhail Gelfand as VP for Biomedical Research. Clement Fortin was Lab construction moving forward appointed as Associate Provost, Dean of Education. The lab construction program was The unprecedented challenge of the implemented as planned. The Center pandemic was faced by the COVID for Entrepreneurship and Innovation response team, chaired by Provost. and the Center for Computational Committed to safety and health of and Data-Intensive Science and students and staff, the team ensured Engineering received new facilities on emergency measures, coordinated the campus. The construction of the Skoltech transfer to the online mode, library, a focal point of intellectual designed a recovery plan for a environment, was completed – gradual return to campus. The COVID Skoltech community received hot line was organized to support staff multifunctional spaces for individual and students. and group work. The organizational level changes included renaming of the Center for

Neurobiology and Brain Restoration 15 Executive leadership appointments to the V. Zelman Center for and organizational structure Neurobiology and Brain Restoration, establishment of the Research Facilities The changes in the executive team Center, Finance and Administration included appointment of Alexey Department, fundraising and Ponomarev as the Senior VP marketing functions in the Strategic Industrial Cooperation, Professor Communications Department.

We are deeply interested in and wish to be a part of the advanced development of Skoltech as one of the country’s innovation hubs. Sber appreciates the application-focused approach underlying the Skoltech Strategy 2021–2025 which can become a powerful driver for high technology entrepreneurship in Russia.

Herman Gref, CEO, Chairman of the Executive Board of Sber Organizational Trustees chart Board

Academic President Council Alexander Kuleshov

Strategic Governance and Operational Organizational Development Academic Excellence and Value Generation Management

VP VP Senior VP Provost VP VP Advisor for Communications Development Industrial Keith Stevenson Int. Business Finance & Security and Community Alexander Cooperation Affairs, IP Operations Andrey VP Biomedical Development Safonov Alexey Research Lawrence Tatyana Simonov Alexey Ponomarev Mikhail Stein Zakharova Sitnikov Gelfand Institutional Finance & Communications Development VP AI & CEI Administration Security Mathematical Campus Student Affairs STD Analysis Modeling Procurement Maxim Fedorov Construction

Industrial Programs Centers HR

R&D Contacts Education IT

Industry Liaison Research Facilities Legal

Research Initiatives Internal Control CONTEXT

17 Left to right: Advisor to the Grigory President for VP Science Artificial Dr. Kabatiansky, IntelligenceMathematical & Modeling Maxim Provost VP VP Finance Communications and Operations and Community Zakharova, Sitnikov, Tatyana Alexey Development Fedorov, Fortin, Clement International VP Associate Provost Anna Derevnina, Associate Provost Kuleshov, Alexander President Stevenson, Keith Business Affairs, VP Biomedical IP Research Lawrence Mikhail Gelfand, Safonov, Stein, Alexander VP Development Senior VP Industrial Ponomarev. Cooperation Alexey

Human capital SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Academic and non-academic staff

World-class research requires New faculty hires top qualified personnel capable to work across the boundaries Skoltech made investments to recruit to produce outstanding results. talents in the areas of strategic Skoltech maintains the highest importance and was successful in standards for hiring and attracting faculty from international promotion allowing to have markets, which is an evidence of a high-level research groups led growing international reputation. Based by internationally known faculty. on review of the candidates’ qualification

20 Appointments and promotions of and plans to contribute to the Centers, 2020 were made to strengthen the Academic Council Appointment, research, education and innovation Promotion and Tenure Committee made performance in a number of areas. the following appointments:

The mission of the Committee is to ensure the highest quality standards to faculty, which are aligned with the ambitious goals declared by Skoltech while establishment. In 2020, the Committee reviewed 28 competition cases, almost half of which directly referred to Skoltech future – young faculty and researchers. The pandemic influenced the Committee operations: the majority of cases included contract renewals and promotions of young researchers who have always been given the Committee attention. Skoltech has the “promotion roadmap” which defines terms under which a young researcher can receive promotion. But in exceptional cases, the Committee is flexible and can bend the rules if there is a strong justification. This was exactly the case of Professor Georgii Bazykin whom the Committee unanimously promoted to Full Professor in 2020. No one even bothered to check whether we complied with the roadmap or not.

Professor Igor Krichever, Chair of the Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Academic Council HUMAN CAPITAL Academic and non-academic staff Mikhail Lebedev Cecile Ben Full Professor, V.Zelman Center Associate Professor, for Neurobiology and Brain Digital Agro Laboratory. Restoration. Research expertise in plant Research expertise in genetics and breeding, neurophysiology and brain- biotechnology. machine interfaces, main Previous affiliation: contributions are in motor control Agro Toulouse (INP ENSAT), and electrocorticography in human France neurophysiological functions of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia, bidirectional neural prostheses. Previous affiliation:

Duke University Center for 21 Neuroengineering, USA

Dmitry Kolomenskiy Loic Salles Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Center for Center for Design, Design, Manufacturing and Manufacturing and Materials. Materials. Research expertise in fluid– Research expertise in advanced structure interaction, numerical system analysis and design, modelling, high performance computational vibration to develop computing, adaptive methods, numerical techniques for analysis of machine learning. vibration of large-scale model taking Previous affiliation: Tokyo Institute into account the non-linearities. of Technology, Japan Previous affiliation: Vibration University Technology Center, UK SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Awards and professional recognition Dr. Alexander Kvashnin (Physics and Astronomy category), Professor Victoria The year brought a number of Nikitina, Professor Stanislav Fedotov, national and international awards and and Dr. Dmitry Aksenov (Chemistry professional appointments. and Materials Science category), Dr. The Provost, Professor Keith Stevenson Yuri Yanovich (Data Transfer, Storage, received the Charles N. Reilley Award Processing and Protection category). of the Society for Electroanalytical Dr. Dmitri Krasnikov was awarded Chemistry. Professor Artem Oganov was with Zhores Alferov scholarship for elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of achievements in designing new low- Chemistry and a Fellow of the American dimensional materials. Physical Society. Professor Evgeny The traditional Skoltech Teaching Burnaev received The Ilya Segalovich Award went to the faculty demonstrated Award (Yandex) as the best academic excellence: Professor Tatyana advisor. Professor Ivan Oseledets was Podladchikova (Best Professor), appointed to the Russian Presidential Professor Victor Lempitsky (Best Council for Science and Education. Instructor), Professor Dmitry Dylov (Best For a few years in a row, the Moscow Supervisor), Professor Dmitry Kulish Government Award for Young Scientists (Best Career Trainer), Professor went to Skoltech: the winners 2020 are Nasibulin (Best Mentor).

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Left to right: Professor Keith Stevenson, Professor Artem Oganov, Professor Evgeny Burnaev, Professor Ivan Oseledets, Dr. Alexandr Kvashnin, Professor Victoria Nikitina, Professor Stanislav Fedotov, Dr. Dmitry Aksenov, Dr. Yuri Yanovich, Dr. Dmitri Krasnikov HUMAN CAPITAL

Left to right: Professor Tatyana Podladchikova, Professor Victor Lempitsky, Professor Albert Nasibulin, Professor Dmitry Dylov, Professor Dmitry Kulish

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Faculty assessment excellence and contribution of the personnel to research, teaching The annual faculty assessment was and innovation capacities. The organized by the Provost Office Appointment, Promotion and Tenure in the format of self-evaluation. Committee approved the following The asessment criteria considered promotions: faculty research output, educational load, sponsored research funding, • Professor Georgii Bazykin was innovation activities, professional promoted to Full Professor, services. The Elsevier PURE Research • Professor Anh-Huy Phan was Information Management System promoted to Associate Professor, was integrated to support faculty • Professor Dmitry Dylov was with pre-filled profiles, containing promoted to Associate Professor, data on results. • Professor Anatoly Dymarsky was promoted to Associate Professor, Faculty career ladder • Professor Dmitry Titov was promoted to Associate Professor. Skoltech is committed to create Dr. Konstantin Tikhonov, Dr. Yuri supportive environment which rewards Gladysh, Dr. Maria Logacheva, SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Dr. Dmitry Yudin, Dr. Alexey the Provost Office. Jointly with the Zaytsev received Assistant Professor University of Iowa, the Education appointments, having demonstrated team organized workshops for faculty outstanding results. on "How to engage students in online teaching." A new pilot professional development course Facilitating and Contract renewals and terminations Assessing Learning was initiated by Professor Gustafsson (TU Chalmers) Nine faculty contracts were for course instructors and teaching extended: Professor Artem assistants. The staff of research Abakumov, Professor Alexander facilities participated in programs Braverman, Professor Dmitrii on safety requirements, attended Chudakov, Professor Andrzej site tours arranged by equipment Cichocki, Professor Maxim Fedorov, producers and suppliers. The Professor Alexander Korsunsky, administration team attended trainings Professor Petr Sergiev, Professor related to HR administration and Vladimir Spokoiny, Professor Denis recruitment, employer’s brand, student Zorin. admission, educational programs Professor Pavel Troshin, Professor accreditation, financial management, Marwan Charara, Professor Fine, GDPR data privacy professional,

24 Professor Konstantin Piatkov, Professor electronic document flow, project Eric Achtmann left Skoltech due to management. The omni management contracts expiry or other reasons. training allowed to learn and practice skills for managing teams in remote and hybrid formats. Personnel onboarding, learning The project PM.Science, aimed at and development creating sustainable supportive environment for project management, The onboarding and orientation was launched as a joint initiative program, designed by the HR team of HR and R&D Contract Office. In to create a friendly and comfortable addition to regular meetings, the immersion of newcomers, was project management course was conducted fully online. More than 40 delivered to the first group of 20 participants learnt about Skoltech managers. The “Training for Trainers” goals, core activities as well as module will allow to train managers received tips for efficient day-by-day in-house based on unified standards. activities. The Coursera for Skoltech project Skoltech continued to invest in building provided a free access to 3800 organizational capabilities by offering courses with a possibility to a broad range of learning and receive certificates. The major development opportunities. Springer interest was raised for soft Nature online trainings for academic skills (leadership, emotional staff and students were arranged by intelligence, presentation skills, HUMAN CAPITAL

time management), as well as by staff, were delivered to Krasnodar, courses for Python and Excel. Krasnoyarsk, Vladikavkaz, Groznyi, Nizny Novgorod and Moscow hospitals, including Sklifosovsky Social responsibility activities Institute, MEDSI, Botkin hospital. The online Charity Christmas Tree, Skoltech continued engagement in arranged with the Love Syndrome social responsibility activities. In April, Fund, allowed to help children, a volunteer project was launched for teenagers and adults with Down manufacturing protective face shields syndrome. The donations went for users with a high risk of exposure towards services that Syndrome of to COVID-19. About 100 000 shields, Love provides to families with Down produced by FabLab and assembled syndrome members. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Student and alumni community

Student Fostering student success community To educate the next generation of In 2020, the multicultural student leaders in science, technology and community reached 1068 MSc business, Skoltech is building and PhD students representing a holistic system for fostering student 47 countries. Around 30% are success, providing a variety of female students. The share of opportunities to develop professional, internationals reached 20%, entrepreneurial and personal mostly due to the target outreach skills. Many students demonstrated

26 to the regions of interest resulted achievements in academia, in a higher rate of international technology and startup tracks. enrollments. The list below is far from exhaustive.

Academia track

Evgeny Kanin (PhD Petroleum Engineering) took the 1st place in Rosneft conference “Digital technologies in hydrocarbon recovery: from models to practice” (section Geomechanic modelling and hydraulic seam fracture).

Dmitri Travin (PhD Life Sciences), Sofia Medvedeva (PhD Life Sciences) received named fellowships of the Embassy of France in Russia (Ostrogradsky Fellowship, Mechnikov Fellowship).

Maksim Zakharkin (MSc Materials Science and Engineering) received the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship awarded to promising graduate students in crystallography-related fields. 27 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Examples of excellence in publication output (first authorship or co-authorship in top international journals, A* conferences):

Aleksandr Artemenkov (MSc Data Science) Artemenkov, A., & Panov, M.(2020) NCVis: Noise contrastive approach for scalable visualization. Paper presented at the The Web Conference 2020 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020, 2941-2947.

Arina Drobysheva (MSc Life Sciences) Drobysheva, A., Panafidina, S., Kolesnik, M., Klimuk, E., Minakhin, L., Yakunina, M., Borukhov S., Nilsson, E., Holmfeldt, K., Yutin, N., Makarova, K., Koonin, E., Severinov, K., Leiman, P., Sokolova, M. (2021) Structure and function of virion RNA polymerase of a crAss-like phage. Nature, 589(7841), 306-309.

Anastasia Stolyarova (PhD Life Sciences) Stolyarova, A., Nabieva, E., Ptushenko, V., Favorov, A., Popova, A., Neverov, A., & Bazykin, G. (2020) Senescence and entrenchment in evolution of amino

28 acid sites. Nature Communications, 11(1)

Alexandra Galitsyna (PhD Life Sciences) Ulianov, S., Zakharova, V., Galitsyna, A., Kos, P., Polovnikov, K., Flyamer, I., Mikhaleva, E., Khrameeva, E., Germini, D., Logacheva, M., Gavrilov, A., Gorsky, A., Nechaev, S., Gelfand, M., Vassetzky, Y., Chertovich, A., Shevelyov, Y., Razin, S. (2021) Order and stochasticity in the folding of individual drosophila genomes. Nature Communications, 12(1)

Marina Kalinina (PhD Life Sciences) Kalinina, M., Skvortsov, D., Kalmykova, S., Ivanov, T., Dontsova, O., & Pervouchine, D. D. (2021) Multiple competing RNA structures dynamically control alternative splicing in the human ATE1 gene. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(1), 479-490.

Nikita Luchinin (PhD Materials Science and Engineering) Fedotov, S., Luchinin, N., Aksyonov, D., Morozov, A., Ryazantsev, S., Gaboardi, M., Plaisier, J., Stevenson, K., Abakumov, A., Antipov, E. (2020) Titanium-based potassium-ion battery positive electrode with extraordinarily high redox potential. Nature Communications, 11(1)

Dmitrii Semenok (PhD Materials Science and Engineering) Semenok, D., Kvashnin, A., Ivanova, A., Svitlyk, V., Fominski, V., Sadakov, A., HUMAN CAPITAL

Sobolevskiy, O., Pudalov, V., Troyan, I., Oganov, A. (2020) Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties. Materials Today, 33, 36-44.

Evgenii Anikin (PhD Physics) Anikin, E., Chermoshentsev, D., Dyakov, S., & Gippius, N. (2020) Dyakonov- like waveguide modes in an interfacial strip waveguide. Physical Review B, 102(16)

Dmitry Chermoshentsev (PhD Physics) Osminkina, L., Žukovskaja, O., Agafilushkina, S., Kaniukov, E., Stranik, O., Gonchar, K., Yakimchuk, D., Bundyukova, V., Chermoshentsev, D., Dyakov, S., Gippius, N., Weber, K., Popp, J., Cialla–May, D., Sivakov, V. (2020) Gold nanoflowers grown in a porous Si/SiO2 matrix: The fabrication process and plasmonic properties. Applied Surface Science, 507

Ilia Fradkin (PhD Physics) Fradkin, I., Dyakov, S., & Gippius, N. (2020) Nanoparticle lattices with bases: Fourier modal method and dipole approximation. Physical Review B,

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Technology track

Artyom Gadetsky (MSc Data Science), Vage Egiazarian (PhD Computational and Data Science and Engineering), Alexander Lyzhov (MSc Data Science), Denis Volkhonsky (PhD Computational and Data Science and Engineering) received Ilya Segalovich Award (Yandex) which remarks outstanding achievements in computer science.

Dejan Dzunja (MSc Data Science), through the internship at company secured a research contract for 10 months, which transferred to MSc Thesis. After graduation, Dejan was immediately hired by Bosch.

Artem Grebenko (PhD Physics), Natalia Katorova (PhD Materials Science and Engineering) and Filipp Obrezkov (PhD Materials Science and Engineering) received a prestigious award from Haldor Topsoe, a global leader in heterogeneous catalysis. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Ilya Zakharkin (MSc Data Science), Arman Tsaturyan (MSc Data Science), Jonathan Tirado (MSc Space and Engineering Systems), Miguel Altamirano Cabrera (PhD Engineering Systems) with Zoom touch project and Miguel Altamirano Cabrera (PhD Engineering Systems), Igor Usachev (PhD Physics), Juan Heredia (MSc Space and Engineering Systems), Jonathan Tirado (MSc Space and Engineering Systems), Aleksey Fedoseev (MSc Space and Engineering Systems) with MaskBot along with 18 top international projects, presented their developments in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

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We design educational 3D courses, which are available as video games to download into virtual reality glasses. We have two formats: a 3D computer game and a VR lab, offering school kids and students an opportunity to conduct experiments that are impossible to imagine in school or university settings. Moreover, virtual reality allows to safely explore new worlds, many of which are even hard to imagine. In addition, we have created a simple video test constructor, which we have already implemented in some schools in a test mode. It allows teachers to compose video tests themselves and to add interactive components to their lessons. Thus, a teacher immediately gets all the analytics about the lesson, its progress and results, helping to tailor the process to each student’s needs on fly.

Khurram Pirov, PhD Computational and Data Science and Engineering, XREADY LAB co-founder

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Startup track

Kirill Kurdin (PhD Materials Science and Engineering), Timur Ermatov (PhD Physics), Ilya Zakharkin (MSc Data Science) and Alisa Shaikhulova (MSc Materials Science) – became winners of UMNIK innovation scholarship.

Polina Morozova (PhD Materials Science and Engineering), Natalia Katorova (PhD Materials Science and Engineering) founded “K-Plus” startup (Sk resident) to create and market a new generation of batteries. The startup received the grant "Start" (2 mln Rub).

Evgeny Shilov (PhD Petroleum Engineering) co-founded Labadvance stratup (Sk resident), which focuses on optimization of enhanced oil recovery methods, evaluation of efficiency of different chemicals, numerical modelling of microfluids tests.

Khurram Pirov (PhD Computational and Data Science and Engineering) founded XREADY LAB startup, which designs 3D simulations for schools and universities.

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We developed potassium ion batteries, cheap and reliable stationary power storage systems. We presented a working prototype as part of the Skoltech Translational Research and Innovation Program in December 2019. Our battery is twice as cheap as its lithium analog (per 1 kW•h of energy), but it is somewhat heavier. That is why our niche is stationary batteries for uninterruptible power systems, solar panels, and wind farms. In other words, systems where it is not necessary to frequently move the batteries but to store generated energy.

Polina Morozova, PhD Materials Science and Engineering, K-Plus co-founder

The microfluidic research technology currently being developed can be used to quickly analyze the efficiency and optimize the methods of oil recovery enhancement, select the optimal hydraulic fracturing fluid, and conduct PVT studies. This approach is ten times faster, cheaper, and more accurate than traditional experimental studies. This allows us to solve the problem of the scarcity of core samples by using microfluidic chips, 2D analogs of real reservoirs.

Evgeny Shilov, PhD student in Petroleum Engineering, Labadvance co-founder HUMAN CAPITAL

Welcome to the class 2020 In total, Skoltech received almost 18000 applications from 170 The recruitment campaign was countries. The new cohort of 299 influenced by the pandemic forcing the MSc and 136 PhD students joined outreach team to move activities online Skoltech. 22% of enrollments are and design new appealing formats. The internationals from Argentina, admission plan was fully completed, Austria, China, France, India, Italy, leveraging a strong in-house marketing Mexico, Nigeria, Romania, Serbia, expertise. Being digital natives, Vietnam and other countries. 25% talented and ambitions applicants of the intake are double degree responded with even higher interest students under agreements with to virtual open doors, lab tours, Higher School of Economics, webinars, lectures, Q&A sessions, Moscow Institute of Physics and Telegram channels. The pilot and Technology, Tomsk State campaign to Germany, Italy, USA, University of Control Systems and Mexico, India, China, Nigeria, and Radioelectronics, Saint Petersburg Kazakhstan2 was successful, bringing State University of Aerospace 1/3 of international enrollments. Instrumentation.

33 Recruitment funnel 2019 2020

Applications 13881 17987

Invited to pre-selection 4346 7644

Invited to selection 941 888

Yield 416 435

% of enrolled 3% 2%

To assess the attractiveness environment, intense research focus, of Skoltech offer, the Student and competitive benefits were named Department and marketing team among the top reasons to choose conducted a survey of the newcomers. Skoltech, top faculty and excellent Cutting-edge curriculum, international research facilities.

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Curriculum 64% International environment 56% Focus on research 37% Benefits 37% Career opportunities 30% Top faculty 28% Research facilities 19% E&I oportunities 19% Other 1%

Source: multiple choice survey on factors to choose Skoltech

The class 2020 was warmly Foundation during the Orientation welcomed by faculty, administration, Day, held as an 8 hours livestream representatives of the Skolkovo show.

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Student admissions at Skoltech have proven to be resilient to any external change: we have managed to carrying out all the supporting processes remotely, and with great efficiency. We owe the success of online admissions to the following tools: the Pruffme webinar platform, which we used for general applicant greetings and orientations; Zoom, where we held applicant interviews via several concurrent video chats; the Telegram messenger, which we used for E&I Challenge and general consultations; and the StartExam platform, which we deployed during the written exam in Advanced Level Mathematics, with integrated proctoring by the company ProctorEdu, which is co- founded our alumnus. Nevertheless, even with all the benefits offered by long-distance admissions, we once again discovered that offline face-to-face interaction with prospective students is a major advantage of traditional admissions. One can’t overestimate its value.

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Enhancing student experiences Student life provided opportunities to join sports clubs, social and volunteer Skoltech is committed to enhancing projects, attend networking events. In student experiences through career addition to traditional Talent Show and advising, nurturing student life and International night, new formats were efficient support services. designed: Science Opera, Halloween Opened in June, the Career Office party, online language exchanges with rapidly ramped-up a number of international universities. More than programs. The Career Online Guide 20 sports clubs (football, volleyball, was designed to brief on the job rock climbing, hockey, basketball, lawn market with “first hand” insights tennis, badminton, cycling and others) shared by employers. Online events and interest based clubs for startups with Sber, Huawei, X5 Retail Group, development, movies, music and dances, Raiffeisenbank, Yandex, Accenture, glued the community of Skoltechians. BostoneGene were organized. To Students were supported with services on extend the pool of partners, the issuing Moscow social cards, migration Employers Guide was released to registration, medical insurance, access to promote Skoltech top level graduates. sports facilities. A service for processing Regular communication with students requests to attend online conferences was enriched with monthly digests was successfully piloted to save time in

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Student self-governance issues related to experiences at Skoltech, as well as deliver key messages to the The Student Council represents a voice of administration. The Council composition is Skoltech multicultural student community. balanced with representatives of MSc and The Council’s role is to support students on PhD students, international students.

Affected by the pandemic, we started the year remotely by operating under the new structure and regulations. This year, our focus was more on the problems faced by new students and the student body in general along with few online events. In coordination with, and help from, the student department, education office and administration we managed to solve (or initiated the solution for) range of problems. Be it Covid- related problems, course quality, bicycle parking at campus, online clubs activity or any other initiative – our aim is to ensure that each and every student gets the best experience during their stay at Skoltech.

Salman Ali Thepdawala, the Student Council’s President, Skoltech HUMAN CAPITAL

Student Council composition

Salman Ali Thepdawala Nadezhda Matveeva President Liliya Mironova Tuan Nguyen Vladislav Alekseev Marina Pak Miguel Altamirano Polina Pilyugina Galina Burdukovskaia Khattiya Pongsirijinda Anastasija Cumika Anastasiia Rogozheva Ayush Gupta Lidiia Silkina Anton Hinneck Natalia Timusheva Nina Konovalova Zainab Waris Kirill Kurdin Yakov Yermakov SKOLTECH ANUAL REPORT 2020

The Student Council addressed Uppsala University, European COVID restrictions, quality of online Molecular Biology Laboratory. 6% courses, stipend issue, recognition are employed abroad (Facebook UK, of Skoltech PhD degree, networking Redstone Digital GmbH, Chanwanich events. The Council also released the Company Limited, National student Handbook which briefs on Laboratory Astana, and others). the educational process, student life, 6% are involved in teaching (tutors campus facilities. or lecturers), work in governmental bodies in Russia, while 2% decided to take a gap year, considering Future leaders in science, uncertainty of the job market. technology and business

For the first time in Skoltech history, Building a worldwide alumni the commencement ceremony community was held online. More than 2000 viewers – faculty, graduates and In 2020, Skoltech reached their families, stakeholders, partners the milestone of 1000 alumni from MIT, TU Munich, University of (graduation classes 2015 – Texas, ETH Zurich, HSE gathered 2020). Around 76% of alumni

38 to recognize achievements of are based in Russia, while others graduation class 2020 and wish are spread in 37 countries of the success in future career. world. The “technology track” The majority of graduates were alumni are working in top national employed during four months after and international companies graduation. 32% joined high-tech (Sber, Huawei, Samsung, Tinkoff, companies in Russia or established Facebook etc.). Those decided to startups. Among the top employers focus on academia, hold postdocs are Huawei, Sber, Samsung, Yandex, positions in Skoltech, research Tinkoff. Mostly common positions are institutions in Russia, Germany, data scientist, software engineer, France and other countries. researcher, developer, analyst. Some MSc graduates decided to Another 32% are in Skoltech, continue for PhD at Skoltech or continuing for PhD or postdoc top universities abroad (EPFL, positions. 10% of graduates are in TU Munich, KU Leuven, Caltech, national universities (studying for Oxford and others). PhD) or working in research centers. The communication lines are kept Those decided to continue for PhD open. Several programs were or research abroad (14%) are in designed to involve alumni in University of Alberta, Stanford, outreach and fostering student Oxford, Cambridge, EPFL, Caltech, success activities: True story, Technical University of Denmark, Ambassador Program, Career Digest Humboldt University of Berlin, and Career Online Hub.

It was the freedom in choosing career development path that drew me to Skoltech

Nikita Chernyadev After I graduated from Bauman University in 2018, I was uncertain about what university to choose for my MSc studies until I came to Skoltech Open Doors Day. CTO of Native Robotics When applying for Skoltech, I knew for sure that I wanted to (MSc in Space and study robotics, although I was still hesitating between building Engineering Systems) career in academia or business. It was the freedom in choosing my career development path for the next two years that drew me to Skoltech: I could do research, write papers, join academic mobility or start my own business, expand network, and advance my entrepreneurial skills. Strongly motivated by Innovation Workshop (which, luckily, was offline) and a freedom in designing the educational path, I decided during my first year to try my hand at entrepreneurship. My most important learning outcome is that I have founded Native Robotics jointly with Skoltech graduate whom I met at the Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory of Skoltech Space Center. Starting from admission and the first days of Innovation Workshop, Skoltech encourages proactive thinking and offers a variety of opportunities for student development. What helps most in creating and driving your business forward is the proactive attitude inherent in Skoltech culture, as well as hard skills you acquire and polish during your studies. Skoltech gave me opportunities to attend unique field-specific courses and workshops

Maria Matushko What I found especially appealing about Skoltech was its stellar faculty of world-renowned mathematical physicists. Since I joined the first class of PhD students at the Center (PhD in Mathematical for Advanced Studies, there was no one around to share Physics) learning experiences. Still, the new program looked very promising thanks to the Center’s founders and staff committed to improving quality of mathematical education. And my expectations were fully met: we attended exciting scientific events, including guest lectures by the world’s top scholars, met with top quality students, researchers, and faculty joining Skoltech. Along with unique field-specific courses and workshops, we attended conferences and schools that offered a highly stimulating environment for tackling new challenging tasks from scratch. In 2020, I defended my PhD thesis “Limits of integrable systems of Calogero-Sutherland type”. Right now, I am doing research in mathematical physics which in many ways is built on the results published during my studies at Skoltech. I am grateful for valuable experience I gained here as a teacher and speaker at various conferences and workshops. Skoltech has top-notch faculty, inspiring environment, and fantastic research opportunities. I wanted to be part of it and learn a lot

Andrii Liashyk I was among the first students to enter PhD program in Mathematical Physics at Skoltech Center for Advanced Studies. After earning MSc degree from research scientist Skoltech, I decided to continue here my PhD studies, at Skoltech Center since I believe that Skoltech with its top-notch for Advanced Studies faculty, inspiring environment and fantastic research opportunities has a lot more to offer in Mathematical (PhD in Mathematical Physics than any other Russian university. I wanted to Physics) be part of Skoltech and learn a lot. As an MSc student, I focused on research in Mathematical Physics, gaining fundamental knowledge that shaped my understanding of science. In 2020, I defended my thesis “Bethe vectors and their scalar products in quantum integrable models”. In my PhD research, I focused on eigenvectors and their scalar products in quantum integrable systems with superalgebra symmetry. I continue to pursue this area of research, and by now I have defined a generalized field of application for classical results. At Skoltech, I made a lot of friends, gained valuable experiences and greatly expanded my scientific horizons. Computer science research is highly important, as it helps create new solutions for driving the industry forward

Valentin Khrulkov As a schoolboy, I took interest in mathematics and computer science. After finishing Moscow school No 57, I earned MSc degree from Moscow State University researcher Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and did PhD at Yandex Research studies at Cornell University (USA) for two years before (PhD in Computational transferring to Skoltech PhD program Computational and Data Science and Engineering. and Data Science and At Skoltech I was involved in applied research, designed Engineering) and conducted numerical experiments. I also published over seven papers in data analysis and won the Ilya Segalovich award allowed me to have an internship in Yandex. I helped the Computer Vision group to develop a simpler way of assessing quality of photo resolution enhancement model. To do this, I compiled a dataset from all experimental data we had and trained the model to predict human response to image quality. I wrote a paper to make these findings available to other developers, which was accepted to the conference on computer vision. I believe that computer science research is highly important, it helps to create new solutions for driving the industry forward.

Excellence making impact SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 World level research

Organization of agenda: applied research and translational target domains and Centers research to create marketing knowledge and allow technologies Skoltech agenda for driving research, to mature, generate IP and create education and innovation is built in ecosystem which stimulates six target domains which address innovation culture and promotes critical scientific, technological, and startups establishment. Centers innovation challenges and gaps facing train next generation of leaders in Russia and the world: science, technology and business by Data Science and Artificial designing and delivering educational

46 Intelligence programs. Also, Centers provide Life Sciences and Health advisory services on a variety of Cutting-edge Engineering aspects of science and technology Advanced Materials development to the national institutes Energy Efficiency of development (change agents), Photonics and Quantum Technologies governmental bodies, high-tech Advanced Studies companies. Skoltech standing and brand are promoted via prestigious Centers for Research, Education conferences, schools, programs for and Innovation (CREIs) are main the wider community, all developed contributors to Skoltech mission. and implemented by Centers They contuct cutting-edge basic & academic personnel. As of 2020, Skoltech has nine respond to the needs and challenges CREIs, two Centers in Wireless of the dynamic environment. Technologies and Internet of Things, The target domains are wide and and Wireless Communication serve as a long term, while the Technologies (within the CDISE) areas of Centers’ specializations established under the National are reviewed on a regular basis Technology Initiative, and the to reflect emerging topics. No Digital Agro Laboratory. rigid boundaries exist between the The framework of the target domains domains, so the vast majority of the and Centers is sufficiently flexible to Centers operate in several domains.

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Even though the pandemic had a huge impact on our academic and personal lives by changing the way Skoltechians work, commute, (non) travel, and conduct research there were many positive outcomes in our academic prominence. In 2020, we have published >1100 papers, doubled our share in Nature index journals, won >90 national and foreign grants, developed new innovative enterprises, graduated exceptional MS and PhD students of high distinction; and recruited yet another outstanding crop of students. By all measures we were able to adapt, recalibrate and rebalance to become even more productive in 2020 than сould have been envisaged.

Keith Stevenson, Provost SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Target Domains

Data Science Life & Artificial Sciences Intelligence & Health

Artificial Intelligence Transmission Mathematical Modelling 5G and emerging 6G, CDISE & Computational Digital Biomedicine Professor Nikolai Technologies Chemical Informatics & Brilliantov Information Processing & Digital Pharma

Bioinformatics Drug design CLS Systems Biology Biomed Professor Mikhail Gelfand Evolutionary Biology Agro-Science

Developmental Computational CNBR Neurobiology Neurobiology Professor Mikhail Gelfand Molecular Neurobiology Analysis of medical data

Polymer-based composite Metamaterials and Materials Integrated Microwave CDMM Additive Manufacturing Photonics Technologies Digital Design & Professor Iskander Thermal Spray & Functional Manufacturing Akhatov Coatings Micro-Nano-Mechanics 48

Centers & specializations Centers Strategic Thinking & Digital Space-Enabled Services SC Engineering Science and Exploration Professor Anton Ivanov Advanced Engineering

Geomechanics Gas Hydrates & Permafrost Enhanced Oil Recovery Advanced Reservoir CHR Geophysics & Petro- Simulations Professor Mikhail Physics of Unconventional Data Science in Oil & Gas Spasennykh Reservoirs Industry

Electrochemical & Storage Energy Storage Smart Energy Grids CEST Electrochemical Energy Energy Markets & Regulation Professor Artem Conversion Computational Energy Abakumov Solar Energy Conversion Materials

Photonic integrated Polariton -Einstein circuits and integration condensates CPQM technologies Quantum algorithms Photonic ICT incl. THz and Quantum communications RF photonics Quantum materials Professor Franko Nanomaterials and superconducting Kueppers Biophotonics technologies

Geometric representation Theory theory Symplectic geometry CAS String theory Topology Conformal and gauge Statistical Physics field theory Dynamical systems Integrable models Hyperbolic geometry Professor Igor Krichever Combinatorics & Singularity CONTEXT

Cutting-edge Energy Photonics & Advanced Engineering, Efficiency Quantum Studies Advanced Materials Technologies

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the existence of compact Skoltech scientific team is also structures, so-called interested in how changes in Topologically Associating chromatin organization might Domains, and their stable be associated with disease, links to the functional organism development (epigenetic) state of the and aging: “Assuming that The chromatin (DNA plus chromatin. This distinguishes chromatin architecture structural proteins) folding Drosophila cells from is tightly linked to gene was studied in individual mammal cells studied earlier, expression, answering these cells of Drosophila as in the latter TADs appear questions might unravel the only as a result of averaging regulatory prerequisites of Specially designed over a large number of human development, aging, computational methods cells. Hence, the principles and disease.” demonstrated stability of of chromatin folding in the folding, not expected Drosophila and mammals are Published in Nature a priori, and, in particular, substantially different. Communications

A notion of meanders It was show that the situation becomes more which can be traced tractable if the topological type (or the total to H. Poincaré number of minimal arcs) of a meander is and naturally appears fixed. Then simple asymptotic formulas for the in various areas of numbers of meanders as N tends to infinity mathematics, theoretical were derived. The new tools which were physics and computational biology (in brought to bear are based on interpretation particular, as a model of polymer folding) of meanders as square-tiled surfaces with is a topological configuration of a line one horizontal and one vertical cylinder. The and a simple closed curve intersecting proofs combine recent results on Masur–Veech transversally in the plane volumes of moduli spaces of meromorphic quadratic differentials in genus zero with our Enumeration of meanders is an important new observation that horizontal and vertical open problem. The number of meanders with separatrix diagrams of integer quadratic 2N crossings grows exponentially when N differentials are asymptotically uncorrelated. grows, but the long-standing problem on the precise asymptotics is still out of reach. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Pi In the area ensemble construction are either of AI a new not suited for long-term forecasts, algorithm because they operate only for high- with 1-step-ahead predictions, quality online or they are not adaptive, i.e., forecasts cannot track the changes in the for sequential data was individual experts’ performance. A new method of developed The proposed algorithm is both multispectral sensing adaptive and applicable to the of biological liquids It is essential for various online construction for long- with hollow-core applications, including term forecasting. Theoretical microstructured optical demand prediction, electricity performance of the algorithm fibres was proposed consumption forecasting, weather was proved as well as that the forecasting, anomaly detection existing classical approaches are The state of the art in optical for predictive maintenance, etc. its specific cases. biosensing is focused on However, existing algorithms for Published in ScienceDirect reaching high sensitivity at a single wavelength by using any type of optical In the investigation of potassium-ion batteries resonance. This common the concept of K-ion batteries has been strategy, however, disregards developed the promising possibility of simultaneous measurements Tentative compositions for the cathode material of a bioanalyte’s refractive were selected by computational screening of the index over a broadband crystallographic database, and the most prospective candidates in spectral domain. Now this terms of specific capacity and diffusion barriers were synthesized issue was addressed by and electrochemically tested. The most prospective materials were introducing the approach found among those possessing the KTiOPO4-type structure, which of in-fibre multispectral appears to be a universal host capable of reversible (de)intercalation optical sensing (IMOS). The of four alkali cations (Li - Rb). Diffusion coefficients for all these operating principle relies cations were measured, and, surprisingly, potassium demonstrated on detecting changes in the highest diffusivity. Strong inductive effect in KTiPO4F allowed transmission of a hollow- tuning the Ti3+/Ti4+ redox potential towards the value suitable for core microstructured optical cathode application that is the highest value achieved up to date. A fibre when a bioanalyte is number of organic polymers capable of superfast charging either streamed through it via liquid via pseudocapacitive mechanism or via dual-ion mechanism were cells. IMOS offers a unique synthesized and electrochemically tested. Hard carbon anodes opportunity to measure for K-ion batteries were developed (patented), mechanism of K the refractive index at 42 insertion and SEI formation was investigated with transmission wavelengths, with a sensitivity electron microscopy. Chemical prepotassiation procedure (patent up to 3000 nm per refractive pending) was proposed in order to enable assembling full K-ion index unit (RIU). This technique cells. Prototypes of the K-ion pouch cells were constructed based on was applied to determine the hexacyanoferrate cathode, hard carbon anode and concentrated concentration and refractive diglyme electrolyte (patented). index dispersion. Published in Nature Communications (The article was mentioned in the Published in Light: Science & Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights webpage on energy materials). Applications SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

High impact publication output in the most prestigious Nature Index journals as indexed in Scopus. With As reported (refer to “Common data regards to the standing in Artificial set”), the total number of Skoltech Intelligence (A* conferences), publications in 2020 reached Skoltech holds a leading position 1131. Ensuring a growth of the among national universities, research output compared to 2019, Skoltech institutions and companies. The total maintained the highest level publishing number of papers in A* conferences 63% papers in Q1 journals, and 13% during 2018 – 2020 reached 45.

Select examples are highlighted below:

Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering

Kozlovskii, I., & Popov, P. (2020) Spatiotemporal identification of druggable binding sites using deep learning. Communications Biology, 3(1)

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Center of Life Sciences

Sharonov, G., Serebrovskaya, E., Yuzhakova, D., Britanova, O., Chudakov, D. (2020) B cells, plasma cells and antibody repertoires in the tumour microenvironment. Nature Reviews Immunology, 20(5) 294-307

Osterman, I., Wieland, M., Maviza, T., Lashkevich, K., Lukianov, D., Komarova, E., Zakalyukina, Y., Buschauer, R., Shiriaev, D., Leyn, S., Zlamal, J., Biryukov, M., Skvortsov, D., Tashlitsky, V., Polshakov, V., Cheng, J., Polikanov, Y., Bogdanov, A., Osterman, A., Dmitriev, S., Beckmann, R., Dontsova, O., Wilson, D., Sergiev, P. (2020) Tetracenomycin X inhibits translation by binding within the ribosomal exit tunnel. Nature Chemical Biology

V.Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration

Khrameeva, E., Kurochkin, I., Han, D., Guijarro, P., Kanton, S., Santel, M., Qian, Z., Rong, S., Mazin, P., Sabirov, M., Bulat, M., Efimova, O., Tkachev, A., Guo, S., Sherwood, C.C., Gray Camp, J., Pääbo, S., Treutlein, B., Khaitovich, P. (2020) Single-cell-resolution transcriptome map of human, chimpanzee, bonobo, and macaque brains.Genome Research,30(5) 776-789 EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials

Safonov, A., Gusev, M., Saratov, A., Konstantinov, A., Sergeichev, I., Konev, S., Gusev, S., Akhatov, I. (2020) Modeling of cracking during pultrusion of large-size profiles. Composite Structures, 235

Tikhomirova, K., Tantardini, C., Sukhanova, E., Popov, Z., Evlashin, S., Tarkhov, M., Zhdanov, V., Dudin, A., Oganov, A., Kvashnin, A. (2020) Exotic two-dimensional structure: The first case of hexagonal NaCl. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(10), 3821-3827.

Evlashin S., Fedorov F., Dyakonov P., Maksimov Y., Pilevsky A., Maslakov K., Kuzminova Y., Mankelevich Y., Voronina E., Dagesyan S., Pletneva, V., Pavlov, A., Tarkhov, M., Trofimov, I., Zhdanov, V., Suetin, N., Akhatov, I. (2020) Role of Nitrogen and Oxygen in Capacitance Formation of Carbon Nanowalls. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(12) 4859-4865

Space Center

53 Rodríguez Gómez, J.M., Podladchikova, T., Veronig, A., Ruzmaikin, A., Feynman, J., Petrukovich, A. Clustering of Fast Coronal Mass Ejections during Solar Cycles 23 and 24 and the Implications for CME-CME Interactions (2020) Astrophysical Journal, 899 (1), art. no. 47.

Toche, B., Pellerin, R., & Fortin, C. (2020) Set-based design: A review and new directions. Design Science, Vol 6

Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery

Chekhonin, E., Popov, Y., Peshkov, G., Spasennykh, M., Popov, E., Romushkevich, R. (2020) On the importance of rock thermal conductivity and heat flow density in basin and petroleum system modelling. Basin Research, 32(5) 1271-1286

Popov, E., Popov, Y., Chekhonin, E., Safonov, S., Savelev, E., Gurbatova, I., Ursegov, S., Shakirov, A. (2020) Thermal core profiling as a novel and accurate method for efficient characterization of oil reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 193

Kanin, E., Garagash, D., Osiptsov, A. (2020) The near-tip region of a hydraulic fracture with pressure-dependent leak-off and leak-in. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

892 Markovic, S., Bryan, J., Turakhanov, A., Cheremisin, A., Mehta, S., Kantzas, A. (2020) In-situ heavy oil viscosity prediction at high temperatures using low-field NMR relaxometry and nonlinear least squares. Fuel, 260

Eskin, D., Meretskaya, E., Vikhansky, A. (2020) A model of breakup of a rising bubble in a turbulent flow. Chemical Engineering Science, 226

Temirchev, P., Simonov, M., Kostoev, R., Burnaev, E., Oseledets, I., Akhmetov, A., Margarit, A., Sitnikov, A., Koroteev, D. (2020) Deep neural networks predicting oil movement in a development unit. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 184

Chuvilin, E., Sokolova, N., Davletshina, D., Bukhanov, B., Stanilovskaya, J., Badetz, C., Spasennykh, M. (2020) Conceptual models of gas accumulation in the Shallow permafrost of northern west Siberia and conditions for explosive gas emissions. Geosciences (Switzerland),10(5)

Center for Energy Science and Technology

Akbulatov, A., Frolova, L., Dremova, N., Zhidkov, I., Martynenko, V., Tsarev,

54 S., Luchkin, S., Kurmaev, E., Aldoshin, S., Stevenson, K., Troshin, P. (2020) Light or heat: What is killing lead halide perovskites under solar cell operation conditions? Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(1), 333-339.

Fedotov, S., Luchinin, N., Aksyonov, D., Morozov, A., Ryazantsev, S., Gaboardi, M., Plaisier, J.R., Stevenson, K., Abakumov, A., Antipov, E.V. (2020) Titanium-based potassium-ion battery positive electrode with extraordinarily high redox potential. Nature Communications, 11(1)

Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials Ermatov, T., Noskov, R., Machnev, A., Gnusov, I., Аtkin, V., Lazareva, E., German, S., Kosolobov, S., Zatsepin, T., Sergeeva, O., Skibina, J., Ginzburg, P., Tuchin, V., Lagoudakis, P., Gorin, D. (2020) Multispectral sensing of biological liquids with hollow-core microstructured optical fibres. Light: Science and Applications, 9 (1)

Center for Advanced Studies

Aggarwal, A., Delecroix, V., Goujard, É., Zograf, P., & Zorich, A. (2020) Conjectural large genus asymptotics of Masur–Veech volumes and of area Siegel–Veech constants of strata of quadratic differentials. Mathematical Journal, 6(2), 149-161. EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

Increase of grant funding Li-ion batteries, nonlinear optical effects, quantum informatics In 2020, Skoltech increased and quantum optics, modern sponsored research funding mathematical physics, etc. The and was awarded 1 bln Rub European funding (HORIZON) under new 93 national and was awarded to the project for foreign grants. The research developing a hybrid energy projects will span a wide range storage system. Among the visible of subjects, including medical national awards are grants for data analysis, deep neural setting world class labs in power networks, novel computer vision systems, machine learning, methods, machine learning, sustainable development of liquid CRISPR-Cas, new generation of hydrocarbon reserves.

Grant project PI Award, Period Funding mln Rub agency

World-level science center Professor Mikhail 593 2020 – Ministry “Sustainable development Spasennykh, 2025 of Science of global hydrocarbon Skoltech and Higher reserves” Education 55

Advanced Monitoring, Professor Vladimir 90 2021 – Ministry Protection and Control Terzija, University 2023 of Science of Future Power Systems of Manchester and and Higher Skoltech Education

Multiscale intelligent Professor Wang 90 2021 – Ministry neurodynamic systems Jun, The Chinese 2023 of Science for multidimensional University of Hong and Higher optimization with machine Kong and Skoltech Education learning and data processing applications

Development of a Professor Ibanez 31 2020 – European sustainable hybrid storage Federico Martin, 2023 Commission system based on high Skoltech power vanadium redox flow battery and supercapacitor – technology SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Skoltech scientists were successful The PhD research projects were in receiving funding for COVID supported with 26 grants of related projects (Russian Russian Foundation for Basic Foundation for Basic Research): Research awarded to students from Center of Life Sciences, •Professor Georgii Bazykin V.Zelman Center for Neurobiology (Project:“Fundamental aspects and Brain Restoration, Center of molecular epidemiology of for Computational and SARS-CoV-2”), Data-Intensive Science and •Professor Konstantin Lukyanov Engineering, Center for Energy (Project:“Genetically encoded Science and Technology, Center fluorescent probes for studying for Photonics and Quantum the dynamics of intracellular Materials. transport and interaction of SARS- CoV-2 proteins and creating safe cellular screening platforms”), Research and innovation •Dr. Marat Kazanov partnership with MIT (Project:“Bioinformatics prediction and comparative Skoltech – MIT Next Generation genomic analysis of coronavirus Program (NGP) was continued

56 proteolytic cleavage sites”), with two Calls for joint faculty •Dr. Alexey Yashchenok (Project: projects. Based on the results of A new approach for the peer-review process, the Steering treatment of viral respiratory Committee, composed of Skoltech tract infections, including SARS- and MIT senior faculty, reviewed CoV-2, based on targeted binding and made recommendations of vaterite particles containing on the following proposals for encapsulated ribonuclease”). awarding funding:

The dangers of COVID-19 were apparent immediately. We focused on it as early as in January, designing epidemiology models and consulting government agencies. Starting from March, we studied the genomics of SARS-CoV-2 in Russia. We traced details of its introduction and spread, and deciphered the causes of individual outbreaks. More globally, we use genomics to study the interaction between the virus and the host immune system. Our results are actionable, and inform health care decisions.

Georgii Bazykin, Full Professor, Center of Life Sciences EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

Skoltech MIT co-project leader Project co-project leader

Profesor Artem Jennifer L.M. Rupp, Atomic-level Understanding of Abakumov Department of Materials Interface Structure Evolution Science and Engineering for Next Li Solid State Batteries

Professor Dmitry Dylov Jacob White, Department Learning-Paradigm Based of Electrical Engineering & Acquisition Techniques Computer Science for Hand-Held Magnetic Resonance Imagers.

Dr. Alexandra Boldyreva Rafael Jaramillo, New chalcogenide and Department of Materials chalcohalide semiconductors Science and Engineering for environmental sensing and renewable energy

Professor Keith Stevenson Fikile Brushett, Assoc. Energy-dense and Durable Professor Chemical Nonaqueous Redox Flow Engineering Batteries enabled by Flowing Solid-state Capacity Boosters

Professor David Pozo Munther Dahleh, Department Market Design for of Electrical Engineering and Electromobility: New Computer Science Formulations, Models and Algorithms 57

Professor Maria Sokolova Michael T. Laub, Elucidating the molecular Department of Biology foundations of an ancient arms race between two major classes of bacteriophages and their hosts

Professor Sergey Brian L Wardle, Multifunctional Fusion: Life- Abaimov Department of Aeronautics cycle enhancements via data- and Astronautics driven nanoengineering of advanced composite structures

Evgeny Burnaev Justin Solomon, Associate Unpaired learning from professor irregular geometric modalities Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Professor Zeljko Tekic Douglas Hart, Department The Skoltech1Million of Mechanical Engineering Entrepreneurial Challenge

The Call for innovation proposals was opened to MIT project leaders representing any school, department, laboratory, or a center. Ten projects in immunotherapy, energy conversion, robotics, climate change in Russian Arctic received funding awards. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Research facilities Currently, the documents are being prepared for obtaining accreditation The shared facilities completed of the Advanced Imaging Facility in services for more than 70 external accordance with ISO 17025 and a clients (total 22 mln Rub), as well as license from Roscosmos. internal clients (total 24 mln Rub). Within the grant of Moscow, the The majority of services for external Skolkovo Foundation purchased clients were provided by FabLab, for Skoltech research equipment Advanced Imaging and Genomics for 200 mln. Rub to be installed Core Facility. The certification at FabLab, Advanced Imaging audit was successfully completed and Laboratory of Nanomaterials with receiving QMS certificates (Center for Photonics and Quantum for compliance with ISO 9001. Materials).

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Response to the pandemic MSc defenses

The decision to transfer face-to-face The pandemic severely impacted teaching and learning to the online students’ plans for theses mode due to COVID-19 was not preparation and delivery – the only an exceptional challenge for all academic mobility was cancelled, Skoltech, but fundamentally affected research supervision performed the educational processes. Leveraging remotely, a large proportion of a strong foundation of online systems experimental work was not finalized and tools, along with highly qualified due to restricted access to research

64 faculty and staff, the educational facilities. Although the pre-defenses process was smoothly transferred and defenses were held online, online, allowing to deliver 10 MSc and Skoltech evidenced exceptional 7 doctoral programs for 1068 students. faculty engagement, higher quality Accepting limitations of interpersonal of students’ presentations, seamless communication, teamwork, and professional integrated work of experiential and applied learning, the committees. new opportunities were pursued, such 302 MSc students successfully as expansion of online resources and defended thesis projects in front of the development of digital tools. Faculty state attestation committees composed worked hard to create virtual labs and of mostly 100 faculty, academia and come up with alternative lab scenarios. industry experts. EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

MSc Program MSc Graduates

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 19 Life Sciences 39 Information Science and Technology 25 Data Science 95 Energy Systems 14 Materials Science 21 Mathematical and Theoretical Physics 8 Petroleum Engineering 23 Photonics and Quantum Materials 24 Space and Engineering Systems 34

TOTAL 302

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Canvas LMS (Learning Management System) is a modern platform, where all the main players, whether faculty, instructors or students, can easily come together to serve the primary mission of effective and engaged learning, which in this new online world, is more important than ever. Skoltech uses Canvas effectively, not only for courses but for MSc and PhD research, for the Industrial Workshop and the Industrial Immersion, and for the ISP courses and defenses. With Canvas, Skoltech is well prepared for online learning. Canvas works alongside other tools and formats like Zoom, YouTube, Telegram chats, etc. Not all modes of instruction translate easily to online platforms, but the best online tools have been integrated. However, the main concern of everybody was the effectiveness of the education process without face- to-face contact and outside of the lab.

Matthew Mulherin, Head of the Education Office SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

The highest appraisal received the following theses:

Research Student Thesis Title Advisor

Doston Shayunusov Simulation of Gas Hydrate Deposition Prof. Dmitry MSc Petroleum Engineering in Pipelines Eskin

Ekaterina Isachenko Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Prof. Ighor MSc Advanced Manufacturing Modeling of a Contra-rotating UAV Uzhinsky Technologies Propeller and Validation against the Experiment

Oluwaseun Oladimeji Electromobility: The Value of EV Fleets Prof. David MSc Energy Systems Coordination Pozo

Alexey Sanin NASICON Superionic Conductors Prof. Keith MSc Materials Science — Synthesis Optimization and Stevenson Performance Conservation

Vladislav Lukoshkin Generalized Finite Element Solver for Prof. Ivan MSc Information Science Multiscale Problems Oseledets and Technology

Bakhyt Zharkynbay Solving Optimal Stopping Problems via Prof. Vladimir 66 MSc Data Science Approximate Dynamic Programming Spokoiny (Chairman Vadim Strijov)

Dmitriy Krylov Reinforcement Learning for Suppression Prof. Dmitry MSc Data Science of Collective Activity in Oscillatory Ensembles Dylov (Chairman Anton Konushin)

Elena Petrova Forecast of the F10.7 cm and F30 cm Prof. Tatyana MSc Space and Engineering Systems Radio Flux for Orbit Prediction Needs Podladchikova

Vasily Rogov Non-algebraic Deformation of Flat Prof. Aleksandra MSc Mathematical Physics Kahler Manifolds Skripchenko

Anton Khvalyuk Low Energy Excitations in Dr. Mikhail MSc Theoretical Physics Superconductors Close to Feigelman Superconductor-Insulator Transition

Daniil Rabinovich Magnetoelectric Effects in Prof. Mikhail MSc Photonics and Quantum Materials Superconducting Heterostructures Skvortsov

Arina Drobysheva Transcriptional strategy of the crAss- Prof. Maria MSc Life Sciences. Molecular like Phage phi14:2 Sokolova Biology

Hilary Edema Comparative Genomic Analysis of Lignin Prof. Mikhail MSc Life Sciences. Bioinformatics Degradation and Its Transcriptional Gelfand Regulation in Streptomyces spp. EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

PhD defenses have been awarded with Skoltech Doctor of Philosophy degree, while 13 Since 2017, 88 PhD graduates have with Candidate of Science degrees at successfully defended PhD thesis: 75 external committees.

2020 36 7

2019 19 2

2018 13 4

2017 7

0 10 20 30 40 50

Skoltech PhD defenses External defenses

The defenses were organized in a 4-year duration of the doctoral 67 hybrid mode with online presence of program: 26 defended Skoltech jury external members, while keeping PhD degree and 7 defended at the a requirement of on site attendance external committees (Higher School of 1/3 of the jury members. Among of Economics, Moscow Institute of 63 PhD graduates, 33 successfully Physics and Technology, Landau defended on time within the standard Institute).

PhD graduates Skoltech External PhD Program 2020 defenses defenses

Computational Data Science and Engineering 14 6 1 Engineering Systems 13 4 - Physics 9 4 3 Petroleum Engineering 8 3 - Materials Science and Engineering 7 4 - Life Sciences 7 4 - Mathematics & Mechanics 5 1 3

TOTAL 63 26 7 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Cotutelle programs partners are KU Leuven, RIKEN, Aalto University, Curtin University, Having a strong international outlook, Ben Gurion University, Sorbonne, Skoltech supported joint doctoral ETS Montreal, University of Paris, programs with leading international University Grenoble Alps. The joint universities through the customized defenses were organized with Curtin cotutelle agreements. Among Skoltech University and Aalto University.

PhD student Supervisors Thesis title

Anastasia Professor Alexey Dynamic modelling and Ivanova Cheremisin (Skoltech) experimental evaluation of PhD Petroleum Professor Ahmed Barifcani nanoparticles application in Engineering (Curtin University) surfactant enhanced oil recovery

Pramod Professor Albert Hybrid heterojunction solar Mulbagal Nasibulin (Skoltech) cells using single-walled carbon Rajanna Professor Peter Lund nanotubes and amorphous PhD Physics (Aalto University) silicon thin films

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Internationally recognized ("Life Sciences" program received programs accreditation in 2019).

International recognition of Skoltech programs is verified by external Enhancing the educational offer experts. In April 2020, international accreditation of PhD programs New MSc programs were designed to “Materials Science and Engineering” open admission in 2021: “Internet of and “Computational and Data Things and Wireless Technologies” and Science and Engineering” was “Advanced Computational Science”. successfully completed by the EU- To close the gap caused by based High Council for Evaluation postponing the Innovation Workshop of Research and Higher Education due to the pandemic, the Center for (HCERES). As mentioned in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation evaluation reports, both programs delivered a few new courses: satisfy evaluation criteria, internal quality assurance mechanisms are •Hack Lab: Laboratory for Ideas in place and effectively used to (Professor Zeljko Tekic) allowed improve the doctorate continuously. mostly 200 students to gain Thus, in total Skoltech had three experience in innovation sprints and PhD programs accredited in EU problem solving under resource EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

and time constraints hack real-life Linguistic Problems (Dr. Boris problems jointly with top companies Iomdin, V.V. Vinogradov Institute of (Tinkoff, Lenta, AstraZeneca, Russian language, Russia) NVIDIA, Sbermarket, and Accenture). •Financial Literacy and Personal •Startup Funnel (Professor Dmitry Finance (Krasik Sofia, MSc Life Kulish, Professor Alexey Nikolaev) Sciences) was launched as a learning-by- •Roadmap to Career Success (among doing course to accelerate teams the speakers were Lada Simacheva and give real-world hands-on (Head of the Career Center), Ivan experience of creating a startup. Bogdanov (Head of Industrial •Internet of Things: Launching New Liaison Office), Lyudmila Primako Products & Startups (Professor (Antal Russia), Ekaterina Mikhailova Alexey Nikolaev) provided students (Changellenge), Ekaterina with hands-on, immersive skills of Tretyakova (Antal Russia), Vladimir translating IoT technology into new Volkov (MTS), AI/IoT/digital products and then •New Space Startup Bootcamp technology-based startups. (Professor Alessandro Golkar) •ProfiRu Hackathon by HackLab The course Teachers Toolkit for (Professor Zeljko Tekic) Higher Education jointly with Moscow •How to Stop Worrying about Art

Pedagogical State University was and Start Enjoying It (Professor 69 offered to students willing to broaden Natalia Mazur, European University pedagogical skills. at Saint Petersburg) delivered by Skoltech partner under the New The Independent Studies Period was League of Universities. a joint effort of faculty, students, and invited speakers. Among some The Industrial Immersion was a examples of courses delivered are: challenge due to the online format. Even with that, over 200 projects were •Critical Dialogues on Arts and co-supervised by faculty and industry Science (Professor Shpanin, Rutgers representatives at more than 100 University, and worldwide famous national and international companies, artists) including Skolkovo startups. The results •Languages of the World: were presented to industry and business Understanding Them by Solving experts during the Industry Day. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Digital library had access to top international databases such as Science Direct, Being a core pillar of Skoltech learning Springer or IEEE, bibliographic experiences, in 2020 the library databases (Scopus, Web of Science, played a crucial role in successful etc.), Springer e-books collection and switch to the online mode. Students Elsevier Freedom Collection.

Sources 2017 2018 2019 2020

Print books collection 700 930 1 100 1 248 Skoltech e-books 220 370 420 435 Elsevier Freedom Collection - - 4 900 6 000 Springer e-books 70 000 85 000 71 000 50 400 Full-texts downloads from e-library databases 50 000 110 000 240 000 210 000

70 71 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Cultivating entrepreneurial readiness and spirit

Widening E&I curriculum (plasma enhanced sterilizer for hands

72 and surfaces), BeDance (software for The Startup Funnel was designed by assessing the accuracy and dynamics faculty of the CEI and Innovation as a of movements in real time), Move. chain of E&I courses to guide students Now (wearable device for efficient from “idea” to an application to and convenient knee rehabilitation), create a startup sustainable enough and UniApp (mobile platform that to join the Skolkovo ecosystem. combines a navigation system in closed Conducted fully online, the Funnel environment with additional integrated included Technology Entrepreneurship content). BeDance, Spheroid Revolution, Foundations (for MSc students), Move.Now passed Sk expertise to Startup Founders Workshop (for PhD become Skolkovo residents. students), followed by the project-based Jointly with the Moscow School of Startup Workshop (for MSc and PhD Management, Skoltech hosted the students) and a specialized course Startup Academy, helping to develop for to prepare a Skolkovo residency business from scratch. Mostly 90 application. Six projects submitted students worked on 29 projects, applications, including LASY (self- gaining knowledge from founders and adjustment systems for commercial entrepreneurs on project development. and scientific laboratories to maximize In general, more than 500 students reproducibility), Spheroid Revolution participated in E&I courses, more than (software to control spheroids quality 50 student projects were developed and functional properties for 3D and pitched to business and industry bioprinting application), Plasmaster representatives. EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

Fostering entrepreneurial jointly with MIT to foster students’ environment entrepreneurial skills.

The Translational Research and Innovation Program (STRIP) was Leveraging opportunities redesigned to fill the gap between of the Skolkovo ecosystem results and market expectations. The program Year 1 focuses on research Five Skoltech projects joined and MVP development, while Year Sk IGTech incubation program. 2 is concentrated on pre-seed Mentoring startups on investment acceleration of the most promising issues was carried out with support projects. 10 industry applied projects of Skolkovo Ventures. Skoltech also were approved for funding in 2021 took part in ecosystem events. 12 – 2022, including a smart sensor for Skoltech associated startups were food quality control based on carbon selected to semifinals of Startup nanotubes and AI algorithms, a new Village 2020 – HeadKraken, combo treatment for hepatocellular Tetraquant, CyberPhysics, SmugNet, carcinoma, the first portable mass- Native Robotics, WareVision, Ecobot, spectrometer for identification Labadvance, XREADY LAB, Move. bacteria and virus SARS CoV-2, a Now, Laminate IT, and BazAR. Native universal management system for Robotics and HeadKraken, reached 73 redox flow batteries. the final. Native Robotics was the Within the NGP, the project second in IT track, while HeadKraken “Skoltech1Million Entrepreneurial was the fourth. Six startups Challenge” will be developed participated at Startup Bazaar.

For many years CEI has been developing pedagogical and organization tools that would facilitate the ultimate goal of inspiring and equipping Skoltech students towards founding their own technology startups immediately after joining Skoltech. Such endeavour is not easy for students, because in parallel they have to satisfy the most stringent criteria of academic and research excellence. In 2020, this goal was accomplished through concerted execution of Skoltech Startup Funnel system, that united teaching by CEI faculty, mentoring by CEI Business Development, and organizational support by Skoltech administration. In July, the group of PhDs defined projects (based on their Skoltech studies) at the introductory E&I course “Startup Founder Workshop”. In September, the nascent projects were brought by PhDs to the MSc introductory course “Innovation Workshop”. The resulting teams developed their business plans during November “Startup Workshop” and three freshly minted projects passed Sk expertise to become Sk residents. CEI is very proud of this success and intends to replicate it many years ahead.

Dmitry Kulish, Professor of the Practice, Сenter for Entrepreneurship and Innovation SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Technology to market

Skoltech was founded as a core prototypes and pulling technologies element of the Skolkovo project to to the level of readiness as assessed re-create a foundation for national by industry. By doing that, Skoltech high-tech industry, leveraging serves as a think and act tank, on the boost in research and facilitating technology transfer and entrepreneurship in science-intensive scaling by high-tech companies, when areas of economy. In this paradigm, technologies bring a sustainable Skoltech acts as a catalyst for economic and societal impact. developing promising areas by In 2020 Skoltech signed 89 new creating environment for world-class contracts totalling 1.2 bln Rub. The

74 specialists, conducting cutting-edge overall portfolio is composed of large research and building technology scale national technology projects groundwork. (Digital technologies, National Today, being a core element of technology initiative), projects the national system of “change” performed to aerospace, agricultural agents or the innovation institutes and biotechnology, oil and gas, of development, Skoltech initiates telecommunications industry. Despite and conducts ambitious projects COVID challenges influenced on the for developing economy and R&D budgets, access to research society, ensures applied research facilities, all Skoltech contractual and technology transfer through obligations were fulfilled. EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

1 2 3 4 Competencies Prototypes / Transfer to companies Scaling, and ideas trail modelas Early stages economic effect

Technologies for production of unconventional and hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves

Energy storage

Al technologies in medicine

Next generation of 5G communications

Al in industry and technologies for manufacturing

Genomic technoligies for accelerated selection for agriculture

4/5G software is unique in Russia, and OpenRAN support provides an opportunity for bringing our solution both to the local and global markets. State registration gives us every right to claim that our software is a Russian product, which is particularly important in the light of the government’s instruction to build 5G networks using Russian hardware only. Our technology partners, Eltex and Radio Gigabit, are responsible for the hardware part of the project and, just like ourselves, are following the roadmap and have already built a 5G base station prototype. In 2021 we expect to start testing the base station prototypes jointly with operators. This will help identify and meet the market players’ needs and lay the basis for future market demand for our solution.

Dmitry Lakontsev, Head of the Skoltech-based NTI CoE Technology Highlights

Next generation of 5G communications

•The first version of the national software Russian Railways company, including for the base station was developed, the transmission of various types of traffic, station was tested in the network of MTS protected by a quantum key distribution company (Project “Base station 4/5G system (Project “Demonstration of the with open architecture”). prototype of the wireless 5G network •Skoltech and MTS launched secured with a system of quantum key the first stage of the pilot zone, distribution systems”). including the base station with •Skoltech won the competition for software, developed by Skoltech implementing the product at the (Project “Pilot 5G zone in Skolkovo Seversky Pipe Plant, the tasks and a Innovation Center”). plan of work have been approved •The prototype of the network was (Project “DATASKAI industrial data presented to top management of processing framework”). AI in medicine Sber and Skoltech signed an agreement on creating ecosystem for development of AI in healthcare in Russia. The ecosystem operator is the company SberMedAI, established last summer. Skoltech research expertize and Sber cloud-based engineering infrastructure will be combined in a powerful technological platform for healthcare services, providing developers with access to a unique collection of well-structured medical data and cutting-edge data processing algorithms and tools. The combined library of applications for data sets and assistance in making medical decisions, formed on the basis of developments of Sber and Skoltech CoBrain project, is currently one of the largest in Russia. Sber and Skoltech’s joint effort has resulted in one of Russia’s largest libraries of applications and datasets for medical decision-making. Skoltech’s NTI CoBrain Analytics project (2016-2020) is a major contributor to the database. SberMedAI and Skoltech develop medical solutions using 50 AI models. Their new services are already available to over 40 million people in 16 Russian regions. As part of this effort, SberMedAI has launched a medical decision support system based on the SberBank Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s algorithms and providing a second opinion on the diagnosis. The new “Lung Computer Tomography” service that helps identify various lung diseases, including those caused by COVID-19, is being pilot-tested in Moscow, Tambov, and Orenburg region, Republic of Buryatia, Krasnodar region.

AI in industry •Jointly with MTS Skoltech develops algorithms equipment and taking measures to eliminate of active learning for processing tasks and the problem. The technologies of digital twins methods for analyzing toxic comments. and machine learning were applied, physical •The project for development of the system for and mathematical models for all main systems predictive diagnostics for gas turbine power and units of MGTES engine were developed. plants was completed for “MGTES” (part of The software for predictive analytics was ROSSETI). The predictive system is needed developed and put into test operations. Further, for early detection of pre-failure conditions of the system will be adjusted for each installation.

Oil and gas

•Skoltech and Gazprom Neft completed the project to develop methods for metamodeling of multiphase reservoir flows. The library of algorithms, that accelerate classical methods of full-fledged 3D modeling of reservoir flows (200 times more) and allow to select more precisely the optimal scheme of developing the field, has been designed. The metamodel is undergoing industrial testing at Gazprom Neft fields. •The technology has been developed for constructing a digital twin of a core for a low- permeability reservoir of the Achimov Formation (Gazprom Neft). SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 New enterprises and technology licensing

Growing number of startups asset management and production optimization by means of combined The portfolio of Skoltech associated physics-based and ML modelling. startups, founded by faculty, Opportunities provided by the researchers, students, and alumni, platform include monitoring of

78 reached 93. The vast majority of industrial equipment condition, the companies are based in Russia. early detection of defects and 57 startups (cumulative result for identification of its causes, modeling 2012 – 2020) obtained the Skolkovo and evaluating economic efficiency residence status. of various operational scenarios, and forecasting production processes, optimization, and Among examples of companies management. In 2020 the company became Skolkovo residents in 2020: got the first investments, hired developers, released a MVP, •SberMedAI (Sber, Skoltech) – implemented pilot projects, and creates medical solutions using 50 signed several contracts. AI models, available to over 40 •Labadvance (Professor Alexey million people in 16 Russian regions. Cheremisin, Evgeny Shilov, PhD In 2020 Sber and Skoltech signed Petroleum Engineering) helps a deal to create an AI ecosystem for petroleum operators and upstream Russian healthcare, where SberMedAI chemical providers to optimize would act as the operator (refer to oil recovery methods, evaluate “Technology to market” section). efficiency of different chemicals, •CyberPhysics (Professor Ighor and do numerical modeling of Uzhinsky, Dr. Sergey Nikolaev, the microfluidic tests. By using Dr. Mikhail Gusev) develops a artificial copies of rock samples, no-code platform for industrial the company developed a faster EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

approach for EOR, SCAL, and PVT findings description in order to tests. The proprietary microfluidic automate protocols’ completion. The platform for laboratory tests in launched pilot relates to the analysis reservoir conditions was designed of CT of the chest to detect SARS- and manufactured. Microfluidic Cov2 pneumonia patients. assembly was developed. •XREADY LAB (Khuram Pirov, PhD •PICsTech (Professor Arkady Shipulin, Computational and Data Science Professor Franko Küppers, Dr.Sergey and Engineering) aims to increase Kontorov) develops a library of users’ engagement in STEM subjects components for designing photonic via interactive VR simulations. integrated circuits on various The company builds interactive technological platforms. These 3D educational laboratories components can be used in various for schools and universities with fields, including communication proprietary intelligent algorithms for systems, sensors, radio photonics, reconstruction and error tracking. and quantum devices. The Its algorithms reduce the cost of commercialization is planned developing models for remote through provision of development laboratories, as well as games and research services for nanofabs, in virtual reality with subsequent companies and universities. integration into existing educational

•Radiology Assistance systems. In 2020 XREADY LAB 79 Laboratories (IRA Labs) (Professor opened a VR class with Skoltech. Mikhail Belyaev) helps to improve •K-Plus (Polina Morozova, Natalia quality of CT and MRТ and reduce Katorova, PhD Materials Science costs and time of its description. The and Engineering) develops platform uses AI and includes the potassium-ion batteries, a next- following modules: assessing the generation technology with twice quality of scanning, intelligent noise lower price of stored energy with a reduction, comprehensive detection similar lifetime and reliability. The of the most common pathologies, first prototypes of cells have been and formalization of significant created and successfully tested, a

The use of modern technologies in healthcare is a key to providing accessible quality healthcare services for the benefit of the medical community and patients. The SberMedAI employs top-notch professionals who will help achieve significant progress in healthcare.

Olga Golodets, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sber SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

procedure has been developed for trademarks, software and database obtaining anode carbon material registrations. In 2020 Skoltech and cathode material based on submitted 68 applications, 46 patents complex inorganic potassium- have been granted (applications contained compound, and submitted in 2018 – 2020). assembling the main components into the battery. Jointly owned patents resulted from cross-institutional research projects:

Startups business development •Ohio State University (US), PCT/ RU2020/050089, Artificial The companies established in the Intelligence Trained with Optical previous years continued business Mapping to Improve Detection of development. 01Mathematics Online Cardiac Arrhythmia Sources received a Skolkovo grant (27.7 mln •MIT (US), RU2020111517, Rub). Additive Production Group raised Composition and methods for 8.5 mln Rub of venture investments. inhibition of the Arg/N-degron Inspector Cloud attracted 0,5 million pathway USD investments from the OKS •MSUMD (RU), RU2020113200 Group. Cryptochemistry reached the Method for graphic registration of

80 final of the competition at the Riga the trajectory of the lower jaw head Commercialization Reactor business based on ultrasound incubator, following which a joint •SUAI (RU), RU2020136915 Method legal entity was created with Latvian for measuring the duration of entrepreneurs and investments of 70k €. individual steps of the left and right T-Tech signed an investment agreement feet with the Industrial Park of Innovations First “quantum” patents were (Chelyabinsk) for construction of submitted for inventions originated industrial complex for production of from CPQM and CDISE: plastic profiles and other products •RU2021100138, Modeling of planar using pultruded technology. Tsuru, lattices of arbitrary geometry using Mig, Anisoprint and other companies polaritons in the framework of the successfully drove sales and widened variational approach (Professor Jacob their market presence. In 2020, Biamonte, Dr. Aleхis Askitopoulos) supported by the CEI, Skoltech startups •RU2020129915, Polariton simulator gained over 140 mln Rub (selling their (Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis, products and technology, fundraising). Dr. Sergey Alyatkin, Dr. Alexis Askitopoulos) •2020137077, Method for switching Highlights of IP portfolio the macroscopic state of polaritons using a single photon, inventors The patent filing since 2013 reached (Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis 205 applications in total, including Dr. Anton Zasedatelev). EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

Skoltech received certificates of state The licensing agreements registration for three protocol stack included: software, functioning at the base station of 5G pilot zone in Skolkovo. •Two non-exclusive license The software is compliant with agreements for a software to specifications and recommendations estimate green vegetation height of the 3GPP consortium, and by monocular multispectral satellite OpenRAN standards. imagery with submeter per pixel Two Skoltech patents were included in spatial resolution. Aeronet Lab the Rospatent list of “100 best Russian at Skoltech introduced a solution inventions” for the second half of 2020: for estimating height of green •“ANODE FOR POTASSIUM-ION vegetation using satellite imagery BATTERIES” (RU2731884C1) and ML. Registered software (Professor Artem Abakumov, solution was licensed to joint-stock Professor Keith Stevenson, Elena company "OPDS" in exchange Abramova, Dmitry Rupasov, Natalia for royalty on sales that resulted Katorova, and Polina Morozova) in 3 mln Rub of licensing revenue • “NANO- AND MICROPARTICLES in 2020; a second license was FOR ISOLATING SPECIFIC granted to Skoltech startup LLC SUBPOPULATIONS OF EXOSOMES “Geoalert” for 60% royalty from

AND ANALYSIS THEREOF” income. 81 (RU2733884C1) (Professor Dmitry •Exclusive license agreement for a Gorin, Dr. Alexey Yashchenok, computer program for automatic Dr. Vasiliy Chernyshev, Polina classification and segmentation Rudakovskaya, Anastasiia of COVID-19 focuses on chest Merdalimova in collaboration computed tomography images. with Laboratory of Molecular Licensed to LLC “Intelligent Immunology, Institute of Bioorganic Radiology Assistant Laboratories” Chemistry RAS). Besides maintaining for 3% royalty from income. excellence in biomed and •Non-exclusive license agreement engineering technologies through for a software complex for the past licensing agreements, monitoring and forecasting technology licensing expanded the technical state of the GTPP to IT with agreements for recently Subsystems. The program is developed and registered software designed to automate functions solutions for COVID detection, of monitoring and predicting estimation of vegetation height and technical state of gas turbine power power industry prognostic tools. generating equipment based on Results of direct licensing revenue (IP- mathematical models of subsystems only) 2020 include 8 new contracts of mobile gas turbine plants and (5.16 mln Rub of fixed charges), machine learning models. Licensed 4 are subject of royalty on sales, to “Mobile GTES” for 5% of licensing income totaled 4.2 mln Rub. royalty. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Professional training, advisory services

Professional training programs Advising on national programs

The pandemic influenced the national Skoltech faculty and staff supported professional training market. Like a number of large-scale science and many other universities working in this technology initiatives and projects

82 sector, Skoltech was challenged to by participating in expert sessions, work online. working groups, preparing analytical The programs were delivered to Sber reviews. corporate university, Gazprom Neft, Skoltech involvement in the Digital Russian Railways, ILIM, Belorusneft, Economy program was marked with Lukoil, and others. expert participation in the working The success story here was a groups “Artificial Intelligence” professional training program and “Digital Technologies”. The “Digital Economy and New groups were set to form a basis Technologies” designed to for collection and publishing data RUSNANO top-management. The by state executive authorities and program was delivered by faculty state-owned companies necessary of eight Centers, ending with a to create products, solutions and workshop of Prof. Alessandro services using AI technologies, Golkar on technology roadmapping as well as to collect proposals for based on the example of hydrogen roadmaps on developing digital technologies. technologies in Russia. The thematic of other programs Skoltech participates in covered predominantly data science implementation of the Prospective (digital technologies, artificial standardization program in the area intelligence, Internet of Things, of Artificial Intelligence for 2021 intelligent embedded systems, – 2024, supporting the federal blockchain). project "Artificial Intelligence". In EXCELLENCE MAKING IMPACT

particular, Skoltech is presented in the (harmonization of national standards subcommittee “Artificial Intelligence” and regulations in the area of (SC 42). Also, Skoltech is a member Photonics, BRICS Virtual Institute of of the standardization committees Photonics). of Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (working group “Quality of AI systems”, Roadmaps, white papers working group “Basic standards”, working group “AI in education”). A number of recommendations, Skoltech Analytical Department on white papers were developed by the Science & Technology Development Analytical Department on Science & shared expertise on organization Technology Development, including: of monitoring and evaluation •suggestions on the roadmap of large programs, support for for development of “5G Mobile companies during coronavirus, Communication Networks” up to analysis of implementation of the 2024, National Strategy for Science and •financial micromodels to support Technology Development (Ministry investment proposal to MTS based on of Economic Development), national Skoltech 5G software developments project “Science” / “Science and (“Digital Economy” program). universities” (Ministry of Science and •White Paper on perspective 83 Higher Education), a methodology directions in Neuro technologies. for evaluating and updating TechNET •support for collaboration of roadmap (National Technology Skoltech and InEnergy Group in Initiative). the field of electric vehicles and Skoltech represented Russia in a energy storage systems, including few events of the BRICS initiatives: a presentations, financial modelling session of a working group in Biomed and marketing analytics in support (issues related to collaboration to InEnergy project of large-scale on COVID-19), and a session of Li-ion plant with domestic cathode the working group in Photonics materials manufacturing.

Skoltech delivered a system engineering course for our team. The course was tailored to specifics of our company and ongoing R&D projects; it was important for us to study based on the company real cases and gain knowledge applicable in ongoing activities.

Alexey Tarasenko, Head of programs for technology development Engineering Center for hard-to-recover reserves, “Gazpromneft- Technology partnerships”

Local, national and global standing SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Partnership network

Local standing: Skolkovo tailored for kids’ scientific interests. ecosystem and Big Skolkovo No less important is to note that Skoltech is an active citizen of the Being a part of the Skolkovo ecosystem – more than 110 families ecosystem, Skoltech pursues of Skoltech personnel live in the opportunities to collaborate and residences, being the pioneers in contribute in multiple aspects. accommodating new apartments. Leveraging the Skolkovo “testbed”, The Big Skolkovo partnership with Skoltech and a national telecom the Moscow School of Management giant MTS launched a pilot and New Economic School was

86 5G network. Skoltech faculty, marked with Practicum and a Startup researchers and students fueled Academy attended by Skoltech the ecosystem with science intense students, STEM oriented program startups, creating new jobs. The “MOOVE”, where faculty served as cooperation with the Gymnasium academic partners and delivered was supported with various formats technology oriented courses. 87 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Joining national consortia refer to “Research excellence” section). of universities The 4th Annual Workshop of Skoltech- MIT Next Generation Program opened The unique cooperation agreement Phase III briefing on plans for research was signed with the Government and academic exchange. of Republic of Bashkortostan and The strategic partnership with Bashkir universities on establishing a TU Munich was kicked-off with national level technology center level. the visit of Skoltech delegation The center will focus on development to have meetings with Prof. Dr. and implementation of technologies Thomas F. Hofmann, President of in digital and green chemistry, TU Munich. Following the visit, the energy, biomedicine and genetics, joint workshop in the field of energy advanced manufacturing and was held between CEST faculty engineering, environmental studies. and the research group of Prof. Dr. Skoltech co-founded the New Thomas Hamacher (Munich School League of Universities, along with of Engineering) to define areas of the National Economic School, mutual interest. Moscow School of Social and A number of faculty-to-faculty Economic Sciences, European collaborations brought partnership University at Saint Petersburg. agreements with Eindhoven University

88 The League will advance of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, multidisciplinary research, joint University of Padua, University of educational programs, contribute Iowa, RIKEN, Universidad Politecnica to national level policy making. de Madrid. The parties have already started To promote R&D expertise, Skoltech collaboration (refer to section entered international technology “Teaching and Learning”). consortia – O-RAN Alliance, focusing on standardization of elements of the 5G radio access network architecture Advancing international and the Telecom Infra Project, which partnerships is a global community of companies accelerating development and The MIT Phase III was launched with deployment of open, disaggregated, NGP open calls and calls for seed and standards-based technology funding for innovation projects (also solutions. LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL STANDING

President Alexander Kuleshov, Provost Keith Stevenson with the President of TU Munich Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann

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Left to right: Counsel (Office of MIT General Counsel) Matthew Fucci, Assistant Director of MIT Skoltech Program Deliana Ernst, VP International Business Affairs and IP Lawrence Stein, VP Development Alexander Safonov, MIT Associate Provost, Skoltech Board member Richard Lester, Skoltech Board member Pekka Viljakainen, Provost Keith Stevenson, Faculty lead of MIT Skoltech Program Tidor. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Wider community engagement

Being committed to bringing value the online course on RNA (Politech to societal development, Skoltech for kids), and other activities. “Non- community is actively engaged in formal lectures in Physics”, a joint activities for promoting cutting-edge project of Skoltech and Moscow knowledge. The program for school Institute of Physics and Technology, kids included open lectures in biology were delivered to 240 participants (Letovo school), the basic course in from national STEM schools and research (“Polytech for teenagers”), universities. LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL STANDING

Skoltech Lecture hub attracted more platforms for science promotion, such than 5 000 views in real time, and 500 as Arhe, Tochka kipeniya, Polit.ru, 000 views in Youtube and Vk channels. Skolkovo Technopark were delivered. More than 30 lectures in modern Select examples:

Prof. Maxim Fedorov Artificial Intelligence vs COVID-19 Prof. Evgeny Burnaev Hype or hero: what do deep neural networks and computer vision have in stock for us? Prof. Yury Kostyukevich Omics technologies: detecting illegal drug use by weighing the suspect. How are illicit drugs, doping and Novichok detected in blood samples? Prof. Alexey Zaytsev Terminators by Google and Yandex Prof. Maria Pukalchik Artificial Intelligence: here comes smart farming Dr. Petr Prokofiev 5G world. Economic implications of 5G Prof. Vladimir Antonov Nano technology: capabilities and prospects Prof. Dmitry Gorin Switch on your imagination and embark on a quest to the microworld Prof. Anton Ivanov Mysteries of the red planet. Space revolutionaries. How small satellites have changed exploration of space 91 Prof. Tatiana Space weather: embraced by the Sun Podladchikova Prof. Mikhail Gelfand “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”, or the history of the human genome: Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals and Denisovans Prof. Konstantin Lukyanov The secrets of the fluorescent proteins Prof. Philipp Khaitovich Wandering through the maze of the human brain. Evolution and the human brain Prof. Mikhail Belyaev Artificial intelligence in medicine: who will make a diagnosis 10 years from now? Prof. Dmitry Koroteev “Digital oil”: myth or reality? Prof. Alexey Cheremisin Is there enough oil in the world? Dr. Mikhail Gusev Digital Twins: Harnessing Industry 4.0. Prof. Dmitry Kulish New technology “unicorns” that sprang up as a result of the pandemic Dr. Grigory Kabatiansky Code- and lattice-based postquantum cryptography

The Planet Watch program targeting participants from Russia. The online the best high school students was lectures “Planet Watch: Space implemented jointly with Sirius, Experiments” have been delivered Bortnik Fund and Roscosmos, to establish cubesat-based science- attracting more than 20000 and-education experiments. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Growing visibility

Expansion of media coverage in resources in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Russia and abroad China, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Skoltech speakers joined Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, etc. researchers worldwide giving expert Skoltech became a newsmaker on commentaries on scientific and special occasions: an investigation of societal responses to COVID-19, a new Yamal crater, the disinfection featured in BBC, The Wall Street robot UltraBot, the launch of a Journal, Financial Times, Washington 5G zone, etc. and was mentioned Post, Observador, Il Messaggero, in top international media: The

92 RBC, Kommersant, and other media. New York Times, CNN, BBC, The News on COVID-19 genomic Sun, Newsweek, ABC, National epidemiology in Russia entered the Geographic, AP, TASS, RIA Novosti, top Yandex most read news (more RBC, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Izvestiya, than 250 publications and about 20 VC, Vedomosti, N+1, etc. interviews were released in Russian and Compared to 2019, 50% more international press during one day). press releases based on publications The media geography was expanded: of faculty and researchers were Skoltech was featured in media distributed on average. LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL STANDING

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Marketing & brand marketing efforts, all Skoltech events (schools, conferences, outreach The year 2020 marked establishment and promotion) evidenced a high of the centralized marketing service. attendance rate. Remarkable examples Skoltech community now has all services are the MSc and PhD admission aimed to promote events and activities: campaign (also refer to section “Student design of materials, digital advertising and alumni community”) and Summer campaigns, branding and content School of Machine Learning (growth of management, special websites and applications, 28% increase in admission landing pages. It is worth noting that selectivity compared to 2019) a strong online marketing expertise (contextual/targeted ads in Google The unified Skoltech brand identity and Yandex search engines, social standards related to promo materials, media, webinars, a system of landing formal templates and elements were pages, email marketing) ensured an designed and released in a user easy, quick and effective transition friendly unique, interactive website to the online formats. Thanks to these format brand.skoltech.ru.

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Social media The increased number of followers and their deeper involvement is In 2020, all Skoltech social media strengthening brand recognition and platforms have grown significantly. loyalty.

+72.5% followers +41% followers +28.3% followers (4.0k vs 6.9k) (9.5k vs 13.4k) (17.3k vs 22.2k)

+26.7% followers +163% followers +17.8% followers (5.6k vs 7.1k) (1.25k vs 3.29K) (2.8k vs 3.3k followers) +199.781k views +388 mentions LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL STANDING

Internal communication: online digests

Weekly email digests for Skoltech students and staff were launched. Each digest briefs on community news, results of research, team achievements, upcoming events, educational and entertaining purpose materials from Skoltech and Skolkovo ecosystem. This allowed to optimize and consolidate scattered streams of information and streamline Skoltech official email communication channel. All other mass emails circulated to faculty, research personnel and all staff are designed in a unified standard.

95 New horizons of media projects change the world. The Mathematical Walks appears in Chinese language Utilizing expertise in media projects (2021), the Anhui Educational Publishing completed in previous years, Skoltech House will promote the book to other presented several new projects. The countries of the Southeast Asia region. Forefront of Physics, a project with Dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Ogoniok Magazine, continuing the the Skolkovo Foundation, a special Mathematical Walks, is a collection of edition of Almanac featured highlights interviews with prominent Russian origin of Skoltech, created as a part of the physicists on topics that may completely Skolkovo project to create.

Financial performance SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Financial Highlights3

(in millions of rubles) 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total funding 6 438 6 539 7 026 8 313 8 984 Operating expenses 3 626 4 084 5 557 6 620 7 204 Capital expenses 2 215 1 794 689 800 1 082 Endowment net assets 4 558 4 719 4 618 4 775 4 787

The results for 2020 Fiscal year economic situation, including costs of ending are better than Skoltech work safety that will be continued into expected facing COVID-19 crisis. 2021. Skoltech managed operational Efforts to restrain spending helped and financial risks and made to mitigate the substantial negative significant progress in building financial impact of pandemic and a sustainable financial model.

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Funding Foundation Grant (6 637 mln Rub) is the largest source of funding. Attracted In Fiscal Year 2020, Skoltech received funding increased by 16% (251 mln 8 984 mln. Rub from various sources, Rub) in comparison to 2019 mostly due 8% more than in 2019. The structure to a larger income from grants and of funding did not change significantly contracts that projected to be stable in comparison with 2019. Skolkovo despite of uncertainties of COVID-19.

(in millions of rubles) 2019 2020 Change, %

Attracted Funding 1 589 1 840 16% Sponsored research contracts 1 193 1 276 7% Grants 379 544 44% Shared Facilities 17 20 20% FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Expenses following primary activities: academic excellence and value generation, The expenditures totaled 8 286 mln student support and development, Rub, including capital investment operations, campus, governance and projects. Expenditure comprises the management.

Student support & development, 798 Campus, 1,487

10% 18%

Operations, 439 Academic 5% Excellence 63% & Value 4% Governance & Generation, Management, 5,188 374 99

The results for 2020 fiscal year ending are better than Skoltech expected facing COVID-19 crisis. Efforts to restrain spending helped to mitigate the substantial negative financial impact of pandemic and economic situation, including costs of work safety that will be continued into 2021. Skoltech managed operational and financial risks and made significant progress in building a sustainable financial model.

3 Financial results presented Таtyana Zakharova, Vice President for Finance and Operations based on a cash approach. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Operating expenses

In 2020, the personnel remained a mainly due to the payment of 478 primary value, staff costs represent mln Rub under the long-term research 56% of total expenses. Personnel agreement with MIT. 53.9 mln Rub expenses include salaries, compulsory was spent to finance NGP projects social security contributions, bonuses, and Biomedical initiative programs. medical insurance, reimbursement of Payments to support research accommodation and benefits in kind. projects with other partners totaled The staff costs increased by 424 mln 38.6 mln Rub. Rub (12%) compared to 2019 due to Campus rent, utilities and maintenance a growth of personnel by 19%. This expenses represent 11% (770 mln is mainly due to hiring staff to support Rub) of total expenditures and include intense contract activities. costs for repair and maintenance of Scholarship and student support engineering systems, utilities, cleaning decreased by 28 mln Rub or 4% in and security services. The construction comparison to 2019 due to COVID and relocation of laboratories to restrictions influenced on the academic campus continued, resulted in 9% mobility. The cohort increased at 1%, increase of expenses. reaching 1068 students as of the end

100 of 2020. Other operating expenses included events and business trips, software Funding of joint research programs and IT equipment maintenance, with world’s leading universities operating rent of equipment, PR and remained the priority of Skoltech marketing, library, taxes and charges. agenda. In 2020, 570 mln Rub was The decrease of expenses of the spent on further extension of research group by 116 mln. Rub is explained by initiatives, this is 195 mln Rub (52%) cancellation of majority of events and more than in 2019. The increase is business trips due to the pandemic.

4 Headcount. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

2020

Other operating expenses, 574

Professional Staff costs, services, 257 4,018 Campus rent, 8% utilities & 3% maintenance, 770 11% 56% Materials for research, 273 4%

Joint Research 8% Program, 570 10% Scholarship and Student Support, 742

2019 101

Other operating expenses, 690

Professional Staff costs, services, 272 3,594

Campus rent, 10% utilities & 4% maintenance, 709 54% 11% Materials for research, 210 3%

Joint Research 6% Program, 375 12% Scholarship and Student Support, 770 SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Capital investments on research equipment and software, 543 mln Rub on labs construction, Skoltech is committed to a long- 101 mln Rub on furniture. The total term expenditure plan, implying spending on construction of the new construction of the campus. In 2020 campus in 2016 – 2020 is 2 018 mln the capital expenditure amounted to 1 Rub, including engineering equipment 082 mln Rub, including 438 mln Rub and furniture.

2,400 2 215 2,200 2,000 1 794 1,800 754 1,600 586 1,400 1,200 1 082 1,000 101 689 800 800 1461 24 97 543 67 600 1208 285 400 598 200 418 438 102 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Spent on Equipment and Software Spent on Labs construction Spent on furniture

Endowment Rubles in the state-owned banks. Endowment funds are managed The Endowment Fund has a long- by professional asset management term investment strategy to enhance companies, including Management Skoltech financial independence Company Alfa Capital and and support implementation of Management Company VTB Capital the strategy. The Endowment Asset Management. Fund investment policy primarily The Endowment Fund as of 31 focuses on ensuring reliability, December 2020 amounts to 4 787 liquidity, yield and diversification mln Rub (4 775 mln Rub as of 31 of investments. According to the December 2019). In 2020, the Investment Declaration approved Endowment Fund received 100 mln by the Endowment Foundation Rub donation from Sber (also refer Management Board, investments to the section “Governance and can be made in national state bonds, management”). As of December 31, national corporate bonds (defined in 2020 the following assets comprise a specified list) and deposits in Russian the Endowment Fund portfolio: FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Total Net assets Mln Rub %

Russian government bonds 924 19% Corporate bonds 3 756 79% Cash and Cash Equivalents 107 2% Other receivables/payables - 0,1 0% Total 4 787 100%

Analysis of the structure of portfolio. Financial results from the the Endowment Fund portfolio management companies’ investment (including bonds, cash in bank) as activity in 2020 is lower by 159 at 31 December 2020 shows that mln Rub than those of 2019 (481 Corporate bonds represent 79% (31 mln Rub) due to market situation in December 2019: 89%) of the total 2020.

2019 2020 Change 103

Annual return, mln RUB 481 322 -159 Annual return, % 10,67% 6,98% -3,69%

Measuring progress SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Key indicators of development

The composition and targets program”) to measure Skoltech of Skoltech key indicators of performance in academic excellence development are defined by & value generation. Annual and the Strategic Action Plan, grant interim reports on achieving the agreement with the Skolkovo targets are submitted to the Board Foundation, and the national of Trustees, Skolkovo Foundation, program “Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance as a and Innovative Economy” (“national coordinator of the national program.

106 1. Publications indexed in WoS, Scopus 2016 4.4 2017 5.6 Skoltech continued to maintain the highest quality of 2018 5.8 the publication output, slightly exceeding the target 2019 6.3 set for 2020 (4.2). In 2020, faculty published 694 papers, including 96 papers in the most prestigious Nature Index journals. The total publication output 2020 6.4 of faculty, researchers and students is presented by 1131 papers, 63% of which are in Q1 journals.

The indicator is a direct measure of faculty research output, calculated as a ratio of papers indexed in WoS, Scopus to the average faculty headcount5 as of the end of the year.

5 Calculated as the average faculty headcount for the reporting year (108,48 as of Dec 31, 2020). MEASURING PROGRESS

2. MSc and PhD graduates 2016 81 2017 92 In 2020 Skoltech reached a remarkable target 2018 176 of 1000 graduates (cumulative, classes 2015 – 2019 252 2020). The graduation class 2020 was in line with the planned target (360±5%). 2020 365

The indicator tracks annual graduation, which relates to the target of the national program to have 1000 graduates in 2020 (cumulative).

3. Graduates’ employment in 2016 67% the national innovation sector 2017 67% 2018 69% Despite the job market standing, influenced by the 2019 70% pandemic, 70% of the graduation class 2020 are pursuing career paths in the national innovation sector. The vast majority (54%) has been employed 2020 70% 107 in high tech companies, research institutions, startups, while 17% are continuing for PhD in Skoltech (the shares are rounded).

Accounting Skoltech goal to educate future leaders in science, business and entrepreneurship, the indicator tracks graduates’ employability focusing on the national innovation sector, defined as high-tech companies, research institutions, Skolkovo startups or PhD studies in Skoltech.

4. Patent applications per faculty 2016 NA 2017 0.2 The IP applications in 2020 grew compared with 2018 0.5 results of 2019. The majority of applications (46%) 2019 0.4 refer to Data Science and Artificial Intelligence target domain. Considering the type of IP applications, the “invention” type dominates. 2020 0.6

The indicator measures a number of patent applications submitted to the average faculty headcount as of the end of the year. The indicator is tracked from 2017, when Skoltech became a fully functional university. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

5. Skoltech startups in Skolkovo 2016 12 ecosystem (cumulative) 2017 19 2018 26 The cumulative number of Skoltech associated 2019 40 startups with Sk residency status, grew up to 57 in 2020. 42% of companies are founded (co- founded) by students or alumni. 2020 57

The indicator measures a cumulative number of Skoltech associated startups, established by faculty, researchers, students, or alumni, with a status of Skolkovo resident. Included in the national program to track entrepreneurial activities and Skoltech contribution to the ecosystem.

6. External funding (mln Rub) 2016 348 2017 554.7 Skoltech demonstrated a growth of external 2018 1112 funding, exceeding the target 2020 (1250 mln 2019 1595 Rub). The funds committed under R&D contracts

108 comprise 68% of the total sponsored research, while the grants are almost 30%. 2020 1996

The indicator tracks Skoltech efficiency in raising external funds (excl. Skolkovo grant) – grants and contracts, IP sales, licensing. The actual result is calculated as committed funds under contracts (non-cash method).

7. External funding 2016 15% (% in the annual budget) 2017 20% 2018 25% Skoltech outperformed the target of 2020 (25%). 2019 26.5% The major income (16%) has been received under industry sponsored projects, and grants (7%). Other sources of income included cash received 2020 29.6% from consulting, professional training, services of shared facilities, sublease and endowment.

The indicator measures Skoltech income received under grants, R&D contracts, professional training contracts, licensing agreements, and endowment to Skoltech total expenses (excl. capital expenditures for campus construction and investments into equipment). The calculation is made by cash received. INSTITUTIONAL DATA SET Сommon data set 2020

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Human capital

Skoltech personnel

Zoomers / 55 + Generation X Generation Z 9% 17% 4%

Millenials / Generation Y 70% 110

Generation Z: in 1997 – 2012 Generation Y: born in 1981 – 1996 Generation X: born in 1965 – 1980

% of non-academic personnel

36% 36%

33% 33% 32%

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 MEASURING PROGRESS

Academic personnel by target domains and Centers

Photonics Advanced & Quantum Studies Life Technologies Science & Health

CPQM CAS DAL 7% 9% 1% CNBR 4% CDMM 10% CLS 7%

SC Energy 4% Cutting-edge Efficiency CEST Engineering, 15% Advanced CHR Materials 17%

Data Science & 111 CDISE Artificial 26% Intelligence

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20% 22% 27% 28% 30%

20% 22% 23% 21% 20%

60% 56% 50% 51% 50%

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Senior Mid-career Junior 112

Faculty by type of employment

78% 74% 68% 62% 52%

38% 48% 32% 26% 22%

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Full-time Part-time MEASURING PROGRESS

Student cohort

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Student cohort by level of studies

449 482 383

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MSc PhD SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Students by gender

Female 32%

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2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 MEASURING PROGRESS

Internationals in cohort by region

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Europe Americas Asia Africa&Middle East CIS

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MSc and PhD intake 356

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MSc and PhD intake by university

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Africa & Middle East Asia CIS Europe Americas MEASURING PROGRESS

MSc and PhD graduates (cumulative)

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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

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Graduation class 2020

MSc program Graduates

Data Science 95 Information Science and Technology 25 Life Sciences 39 Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 19 Materials Science 21 Petroleum Engineering 23 Space and Engineering Systems 34 Energy Systems 14 Photonics and Quantum Materials 24 Mathematical and Theoretical Physics 8 Total 302

118 PhD program Graduates

Computational and Data Science and Engineering 14 Life Sciences 7 Materials Science and Engineering 7 Petroleum Engineering 8 Engineering Systems 13 Physics 9 Mathematics and Mechanics 5 Total 63 MEASURING PROGRESS

Graduation class 2020 career paths

Job- seeking, PhD & gap year Other research 2% 4% abroad Industry 14% Russia Industry 31% abroad 6%

PhD Russia 2%

Startups 1% Research PhD Russia Skoltech 8% 17% Research Skoltech 15%

119 Snapshot for “Industry Russia”

Food E-commerce & processing Retail & packaging 7% 3% AI, Software & Oil & gaz, Technology Mining 29% 7%

Consulting 4%

Banking & Financial technologies 20% Telecom IT Healthcare 13% & Biomedicine, Pharma 5% Semiconductor industry, Engineering & Aerospace Electronics 3% 9% SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Skoltech alumni global map

McGill University of Alberta University of Calgary University of Toronto 1QBit

9 Astro Digital Inc, Align Technology, CISCO, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Stony Brook, Penn State, Rutgers, Cornell App in the Air, FalconAI Technologies, Ople.io 67

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1017 alumni in 38 countries

PAT Industrial 95% employed Solutions during 4 months RODA Energia after graduation

77% in Russia MEASURING PROGRESS

Sber, Tinkoff, Samsung, Ozon, Megafon, MTS, Lukoil, Yandex, Bosch, HUAWEI, VTB, Biocad, BostonGene, Severstal, Stockholm Gazpromneft, McKinsey&Co, University MIPT, MSU, HSE, RAS, startups Uppsala Digital Petroleum, Tyler, Lexy, University Tsuru Robotics, Skoltech Umea University University of Helsinki Tampere University Tengizchevroil Cambridge 2 6 Dux Engineering 781 Oxford Golbriak InterTech, National Facebook 5 Space OÜ Laboratory Astana 12 11 30 German Orbital Systems 4 Max Plank, TU Munich, 8 14 6 17 EMBL 3 KPMG 6 7 Rakuten, Inc Erevan State Huawei Technion LeapMind 121 University HKUST 3 Tohoku PolyU KAUST iNeuron.ai University University Chawanich Co of Electro- CrowdMoni Communications

Uganda National University Martyrs of Singapore University

Melbourne University SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Skoltech alumni global map (Europe)

Stockholm University Uppsala University Umea University University of Helsinki Tampere University 6

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Technical University of Denmark University of Southern Denmark Golbriak Space OÜ Aalborg University

Novo Nordisk Foundation 2 Cambridge University of 5 Manchester TU Delft, TU Eindhoven German Orbital Systems 122 Oxford University of Amsterdam Max Plank, TU Munich, 2 Qualcomm EMBL, KIT, Redstone Digital University 12 11 GmbH Humboldt University, College 4 30 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Dublin KU Leuven, Ghent University, University of Liège, Hasselt University 6 Paris-Sud University, École 14 17 Vienna BioCenter Polytechnique, Grenoble Alpes University, University EPF EMPA 3 University of Salzburg of Bordeaux, ITER, INRIA, ETH Zurich Maillance Austrian Academy of Sciences, Research University of Perugia Institute of Molecular Pathology University of Genoa Swiftera University of Catania MEASURING PROGRESS

All alumni per target domains

Photonics Data Advanced & Quantum Science & Studies Technologies Artificial 3% 10% Intelligence 35%

Energy Efficiency 12% 123

Life Sciences & Health 16% Cutting-edge Engineering, Advanced Materials 24% SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Excellence making impact

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124 As of Jan 22, 2021 the total Skoltech affiliated output (2020) indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, is 1131. 57% of papers are in co-authorship with international partners.

Nature Index output

20.23

9.85

Share 2019 Share 2020

91 Skoltech affiliated papers with a share 20.23 are shown in Skoltech profile in Nature Index for the period December 2019 – November 20201 (source: www.natureindex.com). Most publications are result of Skoltech international 1 As of March 15, 2021. collaborations with Aalto, Max Planck Institutes, MIT, CNRS and other institutions. MEASURING PROGRESS

Publication output collaborations

Institutional Single collaboration authorship (Skoltech only) 3% 8% International collaboration 55%

National collaboration 34%

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Top international collaborations

MIT 135 CNRS 132 Aalto University 89 Rutgers 78 Harvard 59 University of Southhampton 58 Cambridge 54 RIKEN 54 Chinese Academy of Sciences 52

The charts demonstrate Skoltech publication output as indexed in Scopus for the period of 2016 – 2020 (Source: SciVal as of March 15, 2021) SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Annual grant funding (mln Rub)

580

402

234

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126 Grant portfolio (2020 – 2023) by area

Physics Engineering Chemistry & & Space Science Materials Sciences 5% Science 15% 27%

Mathematics, Computer Science & Systems Science 9%

Basic Research for Medicine 6%

Biology & Earth Life Sciences Sciences 14% 24%

The chart demonstrates grant funding in a classification used by Office of Sponsored Research. The total amount of funding is 1.4 bln Rub. MEASURING PROGRESS

Grants (2020 – 2023) by Centers (mln Rub)

CHR 324,4 CDISE 268,9 CEST 257,2 CLS 164,7 CPQM 157,7 CAS 126 CDMM 48,9 CNBR 26,7 CEI 20 SC 12,2 DAL 1,2

127 Grants (2020 – 2023) by source (mln Rub)

Russian Science 615,8 Foundation

Ministry subsidies 431,7

Russian Foundation 298,3 for Basic Research

Foreign grant 67,5 agencies SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

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R&D funding (2020 – 2023) by Centers (mln Rub)

CDISE 1203 CHR 509 DAL 320 CDMM 213 CEST 122 CPQM 96 SC 30 CLS 20 CNBR 3

R&D funding 2020 – 2023 by focus area (mln Rub) 129

Photonics & Quantum Internet Energy Materials of Things 3% 4% 17%

Manufacturing 11%

Telecom Oil & 14% gaz 20%

Agro & Biotech AI 14% 17%

The chart demonstrates funding in a classification assigned by the R&D contract office. The total amount of funding 2020 – 2023 is 2.5 bln Rub. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Skoltech associated startups

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Sk residents Non-Sk residents

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Skoltech associated startups with Skolkovo residency

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Patent activity overview

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2017 2018 2019 2020

Applications IP (cumulative)

131

Patent applications 2020 by Centers

CHR CLS SC 1% 5% 2% CEST 6% CDISE CDMM 44% 12%

CPQM 15%

CNBR 15%

The total number of patent applications is 69. SKOLTECH ANNUAL REPORT 2020

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