Skoltech Annual Report 2019
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Annual Report Contents FOREWORD 002 YEAR IN NUMBERS 005 01 / FOCUS & GOVERNANCE 008 Human Capital 010 Institutional Governance & Development 030 Strategic Communications 038 02 / ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 058 Teaching & Learning 062 Research 072 Integrating Innovation 088 03 / VALUE GENERATION 094 Industry Funded Research 096 New Enterprises & Technology Licensing 100 Professional Training & Advisory Services 102 04 / OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT 108 GLOSSARY 112 1 It is my pleasure and a privilege to present international high-tech companies, research the annual report. Established in 2011 with and innovation agencies, in total of 1.6 bln the vision of being a world class university, rubles – 45% growth compared to 2018. Skoltech proudly marks 2019 as the year of Over 2 bln rubles of sponsored research success. funding have been confirmed for 2020 2019 was the first year in the new and beyond. Long-term investments have campus. Awarded at UNESCO headquarters been secured by Skoltech joint laboratories with the Prix Versailles as the world's best with Oerlikon, Gazprom Neft, Huawei, campus in 2019, it is without doubt an Sberbank, and Topcon. Also, Sberbank joined architectural masterpiece. At the same time, Skoltech as a founder. I am confident that the most important aspect of the campus this will bring new technological tasks and is its unique atmosphere and infrastructure opportunities for student internships and which inspire and enable our commitment for graduates’ employment. excellence. Staffed with top-notch professionals, the The high research performance of the Center of the Internet of Things contributes faculty, researchers, engineers, and students to the National Technology Initiative. The has put Skoltech into the top-100 Nature 5G Open Radio Access Network Center, Index 2019 Young Universities. Should the established at the end of the year, will Index account for the size of schools, Skoltech implement a large-scale project within would be ranked among the top-10, with the national Digital Economy Program. 10 % of papers published in the prestigious In terms of successfully completed high- Nature Index journals per capita. caliber projects, I would mark the digital Cultivating academic and technology platform enabling the use of AI in medicine. excellence, Skoltech carried out more Leveraging top-class faculty, state-of- than 270 projects funded by national and the-art infrastructure and English-speaking 2 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH President’s foreword environment, Skoltech has been advancing To address this, we launched and completed educational programs and receiving a formal strategic planning cycle to balance international accreditation. The strong ongoing and prospective tasks, prioritize academic background and interest in resources, and coordinate functional entrepreneurship demonstrated by the intake strategies. The Academic Council kicked of 2019, 20% of which are international off in its rotated composition of the senior students, attests to the global competitiveness faculty, administration, alumni, and invited of Skoltech education. experts. The policymaking function was The key outcome of the flagship Innovation re-started to ensure that the institute wide Workshop is that, out of 50 teams, rules are developed with involvement many continue working on projects, with of those, who make up the Skoltech the potential to grow into new companies. community today. In total, Skoltech has 40 startups in the Let me remember Ekaterina Savitskaya, Skolkovo ecosystem, half of the companies a senior researcher of the Center of Life are founded by our students and alumni. Sciences, who passed away in October. We wish them success and offer full support Ekaterina joined Skoltech in 2013 to with their ambitious endeavors. conduct research on CRISPR-Cas prokaryotic In time of complex and dynamic global immunity. She was also active in teaching, environment, the strategic collaboration with delivering courses in stem cell biology and TU Munich and the renewed partnership with developmental biology. Her untimely passing the MIT will lay a strong foundation to bridge is an irreparable loss for our community. Skoltech to Europe and North America. I wish to thank Skoltech community The speed and scale of Skoltech progress and stakeholders for contribution made to require a strong institutional framework and advancing our Institute. Your support is key a solid system of shared governance. to our success. Alexander Kuleshov Skoltech President 3 4 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Year in numbers >1000 98 # 97 publications in Web papers in Nature in Nature Index 2019 of Science, Scopus Index journals Young Universities 123 155 1,6 bln RUB research R&D sponsored research grants projects funding 1062 48 652 MSc & PhD students’ alumni in 30+ students nationalities countries 49 40 48% IP granted Skoltech startups startups owned to Skoltech with Sk residency by students & alumni 5 Trends Academic & engineering personnel Total personnel (headcount) (headcount) 1068 1068 500 500 1100 1100 441 441 865 865 400 400 363 363 825 825 646 646 300 300 257 257 550 550 379 379 200 200 139 139 129 141 129 141 300 300 99104 104 99 275 275 100 10860 86 60 60 0 0 0 0 2015 2016 20201517 20201618 20201719 2018 2019 2015 2016 20201517 20162018 20201719 2018 2019 Faculty Faculty Research & engineeringResearch personnel & engineering personnel Graduates (cumulative) Student cohort 700 700 68 68 1200 1200 600 600 960 960 500 500 449 449 33 33 383 383 400 400 720 720 279 279 300 300 584 584 8 8 480 480 185 185 200 200 367 367 594 613 594 613 240 106 240 427 106 427 100 100 216 216 296 296 132 132 209 209 51 51 0 0 0 0 2015 2016 2017 20201518 20201619 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 20201518 20201619 2017 2018 2019 MSc PhD MSc PhD MSc PhD MSc PhD 6 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Research grants (mln RUB) R&D projects (mln RUB) 500 500 1200 1200 1135 1135 402 402 400 400 847 847 900 900 300 300 234 234 600 600 427 427 200 200 123 123 279 279 70 70 300 200 300 200 100 65 100 65 0 0 0 0 2015 2016 20152017 20162018 20172019 2018 2019 2015 2016 20152017 20162018 20172019 2018 2019 Patent activity Skoltech startups 60 60 80 80 50 50 60 60 40 40 40 40 30 30 40 40 26 20 20 26 20 20 34 10 19 19 34 10 12 12 9 17 17 7 9 0 1 6 6 7 0 0 0 1 Up to 2017 2017 Up20 to18 2017 20201917 2018 2019 2015 2016 201720152018201620192017 2018 2019 Applications IPApplications (cumulative) IP (cumulative) Non-Sk residents Non-SkSk residents residents Sk residents 7 8 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Focus & Governance /01 Human Capital ACADEMIC & ENGINEERING PERSONNEL Faculty In 2019, the Skoltech community of faculty, researchers, and engineers exceeded 500 people. Several targeted appointments were made through hiring scientists with extensive international experience and expertise to build select areas of specialization at the CREIs. Christoph Borchers was appointed Vladimir Zakharov joined CAS as as the Head of Laboratory of Omics the Head of the Laboratory of Technologies and Big Data for Personal Turbulence & Coherent Structures Medicine and Health (CDISE) sponsored in Integral and Non-Integral by the Megagrant program of the Ministry Systems, supported with a RSF of Science and Higher Education. grant. Professor Zakharov’s research Professor Borchers is a top world expert in covers mathematical and physical quantitative and structural proteomics and aspects of nonlinear wave theory. metabolomics and big data in molecular He is a recipient of the Dirac Medal sciences. He also holds a position at the for contributions to the theory of McGill Centre for Translational Research turbulence, and an elected Member in Cancer (Canada). of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laurent Gentzbittel was appointed as the Natalia Strushkevich joined CDISE as Head of Digital Agriculture Lab. He is an an assistant professor. Natalia is an expert in plant quantitative genetics and internationally recognized expert in genomics, biostatistics, bioinformatics. pharma-relevant molecular technologies Previously, Professor Gentzbittel held a and molecular modeling. She has an position at the Higher School of Agronomy extensive background in R&D, and is also (Agro-Toulouse), France. a co-founder of several startups. Prior to Skoltech, she worked at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Belarus). 10 ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Alexander Panchenko joined CDISE as Dmitry Dzhurinsky joined CDMM as an assistant professor. He is an expert an assistant professor. Prior to Skoltech, Dmitry in natural language processing, worked held a senior R&D engineer position, servicing on problems of semantic relatedness, automotive industry needs in the Greater sentiment analysis, gender detection, and Detroit Area, USA. He also served at the Alcoa taxonomy induction. Previously, Alexander Open Innovation Department, working on was a senior postdoctoral researcher at the transformational innovation technologies in the University of Hamburg (Germany). aluminum production industry. Pavel Osinenko joined CDISE as an assistant Gleb Sukhorukov was appointed as a visiting professor. His research focuses on machine professor (CEST) to raise expertise in the learning and its applications in engineering, area of encapsulation and microfabrication. control theory, autonomous driving, and data Professor Sukhorukov is the chair at the fusion. Pavel developed new approaches Biopolymers at the School of Engineering and based on reinforcement learning with stability Materials Science at Queen Mary University and safety guarantees for discrete-time of London. systems. Prior to Skoltech, Pavel worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (Germany), TU Chemnitz (Germany), and the KTO of Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Two faculty members, Professor Geneste (Space Center) and Professor Macchiardi (CNBR), left Skoltech due to the expiry of their contracts. Dmitry Ivankov was appointed as an assistant professor at CLS. Dmitry is an expert in protein physics, contributed to the theoretical description of protein folding kinetics. His current work concentrates on epistasis, an evolutionary phenomenon that has recently been found to relate to cancer, Parkinson's disease, and other diseases.