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. Prior to Skoltech, Professor Ivankov worked at the Department of Genome-Oriented Bioinformatics of the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and the Institute of Science & Technology (Austria). 11

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Awards & promotions to curriculum design by providing core and professional education courses. Skoltech faculty were recognized nationally Professor Oseledets plays a leading and internationally for academic & technology role in a number of industrial research contributions, the year highlights include: projects (Huawei, Gazprom Neft), also involved in startup activities. • Professor Fedorov – Award in the category • Professor Troshin was promoted to full “AI for Solving Humanity’s Greatest professor. His main work is on materials Challenges” at the Lenovo-Intel AI chemistry, organic materials, and University Challenge 2019. electronics, organic materials for advanced • Professor Phan – Outstanding Reviewer Award metal ion batteries, hybrid organic- for maintaining the prestige of the IEEE inorganic materials for photovoltaics (solar International Conference on Acoustics, cells). He is ranked among productive and Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). impactful faculty at Skoltech. Professor • Professor Ouerdane – Distinguished referee Troshin contributed to developing the for the European Physical Journals. PhD program in Materials Science and • Professor Tretiak – Highly Cited Researcher Engineering and has high teaching Award from Web of Science Group. evaluations from students. He filed several • Professor Oganov – Friendship Award of invention disclosures on organic cathodes. the Chinese Government. • Professor Shapeev was promoted to • Professor Oseledets – Yandex “Research Advisor” associate professor. His area of expertise Award for contribution in training young includes machine learning, numerical scientists in the field of machine learning. analysis, molecular modeling, models of • Professor Zorin – Computer Graphics interatomic integration. Over the last year, Achievement Award 2019 for fundamental he published over 13 peer-review papers contributions in the fields of geometry in prominent journals. He developed three processing, multiresolution shape courses, and also contributed to development modeling, and geometric principles of of the Computational Science & Engineering physics-based simulation in graphics. program. Professor Shapeev raised grant • Professor Nasibulin – Gold medal named after funding and leads several industrial contracts. academician I.V. Petryanov for outstanding • Dr. Kostyukevich was promoted to achievements in the field of physical and assistant professor. His expertise focuses applied chemistry. on instrumentation development, numerical • Dr. Osterman – Moscow Government Award simulation of ion optics, omics technologies, for developing a method to search for native mass spectrometry, isotope exchange new antibiotics (“Ultra-high-performance mass spectrometry, and data processing. He is screening of biodiversity in the search for a co-author of over 80 papers in the refereed new drugs” project series). journals. He has experience in winning highly competitive awards and grants. Based on international peer-review1, • Dr. Khrameeva was promoted to assistant the APTC made positive resolutions on faculty professor. Her research work spans a wide and researchers promotions: range of biological and methodological approaches: from genome variation • Professor Oseledets was promoted to full to the chromatin architecture, gene professor. His research results were expression, and metabolic evolution, from published in the top journals in applied unicellular organisms to humans, and mathematics and theoretical and from sequencing to mass-spectrometry. computational chemistry. He contributed She demonstrated an excellent publication

12 1 Expert groups of the Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Academic Council (APTC).

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH record (first-author papers in prestigious computer science, unconventional journals) and has active grants. Ekaterina computation, parallel computing, and artificial teaches the Advanced Bioinformatics intelligence but also design and development course at Skoltech, as well as guest of novel materials. Alexander was a presenter lectures at MSU and HSE. in more than 20 international conferences in • Dr. Nikitina was promoted to assistant the area of composite materials (ECCM16, professor. Her area of expertise includes ICCM20, CAMX2015, SAMPE2015, the kinetics of electron transfer in ionic ECCM17, SAMPE2016, ICCM21, EGU2019). and molecular solvents, the kinetics of He led several large-scale R&D contracts with electron transfer at modified interfaces, United Aircraft Corporation, AeroComposit, the molecular modeling of electron transfer and other companies. Dr. Safonov has and solvation, and metal-ion batteries. supervised students since 2016. He founded She is the PI of several RFBR and RSF a startup company T-TECH, which is grants, substantial experience in teaching a Skolkovo resident. general electrochemistry courses at MSU and Skoltech, together with Professor Stevenson. Faculty assessment • Dr. Fedotov was promoted to assistant professor. He holds a unique blend of The faculty assessment was organized competences in inorganic chemistry, in the form of self-evaluation, facilitated by solid-state chemistry, crystallography, and the Provost’s Office, achieving 98% of the material science, with a primary focus response rate. The faculty reports, outlining on advanced cathode materials for the the main results of the year, were assessed next generation of metal-ion batteries. by scholarly output, educational load, The scientific output is exceptional for the sponsored research, contribution to innovation current stage of his academic career, as capacities, and professional service. It is reflected by the impact factors of journals planned to conduct faculty assessments in which he has published. Stanislav was a annually. To automate data collection, teaching assistant in the Materials Survey, Skoltech started to use the Elsevier PURE Computational Chemistry, and Materials Research Information Management System. Modeling courses. Also, he designed the Materials Design and Production course. Faculty onboarding • Dr. Sergeichev became assistant professor. His main publications are in the high journals The onboarding program was launched by and the largest international conferences the Faculty Affairs Office (now a part of the (International Conference on Composite HR Department) to support incoming faculty Materials, Composites and Advanced with seminars on teaching & mentoring, LMS Materials Expo CAMX and the Society for usage, industry projects management, IP the Advancement of Material and Process policy, services available in Shared Facilities, Engineering – SAMPE). Dr. Sergeichev spent and the approach to faculty evaluation. It is the last two years on the development planned to conduct the program in 2020. of a program Experimental and Digital Certification Platform, where he is currently Research and engineering personnel the technical director. He contributed to teaching and learning by delivering The research & engineering personnel a course, Structural Analysis and Design, grew by 21% compared to 2018. The which is evaluated highly by students. majority of researchers & software engineers He is a founder of the Helix Tank Lab startup, were hired to support R&D projects which has applied for a Skolkovo residency. (e.g., NTI Center of Excellence Wireless • Dr. Safonov was promoted to assistant Communication and Internet of Things) as professor. He has an excellent publication well as operate state-of-the-art research record, involved not only in theoretical infrastructure. 13

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE STUDENTS & ALUMNI Skoltech students demonstrated a number of achievements in national and international competitions and conferences.

Ilya Fradkin Ilya Vilkoviskiy, Mykola Mauro Morales (advisor Professor Gippius) – Semenyakin (advisor Professor Biamonte) – Yandex Prize in 3 (advisor Professor Marshakov) – Einstein Fellowship in Berlin nominations Young Russian Mathematics 2019 Fellowship

Evgeny Tsykunov, Roman Vyacheslav Kozitsin Alexey Fedoseev, Juan Ibrahimov, Juan Heredia and Yurii Katser Heredia, Igor Usachev (advisor Professor Tsetserukou) (advisor Professor (advisors Professor – Best Demo Award at the Lakontsev) – winners of Tsetserukou, Dr. Grishaev) – International Conference the Digital Breakthrough 1st prize at Saudi Aramco on Computer Graphics and Hackathon with a prototype Upstream Solutions Interactive Technologies for a data analysis service Technathon 2019

Maxim Zakharkin Guillaume Debaille Andrey Shevtsov and (advisor Professor Stevenson) (advisor Dr. Gusev) – Natalia Katorova – Winner of Haldor Topsoe cash prize from Karfidov (advisor Professor Scholarship, recipient of the Lab for Best Prototype at Abakumov) – Winners of ICDD Ludo Frevel Scholarship the Ideas to Impact course LGChem Scholarship 2019

14

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Recruitment campaign As a part of outreach activities, undergraduate research opportunities programs were launched The campaign 2019 was redesigned to with MIPT (in physics) and Mendeleev University maximize the admission of highly motivated of Chemical Technology (in chemistry). and talented students. The major change was For the first time ever, the selection days were in scholarship policy, which was updated to organized on the new campus. Off-campus prevent the admission of students with double selection on the joint MSc programs was held affiliation (parallel studies). The other change at TUSUR University (Tomsk), Saint Petersburg concerned the E&I component – applicants’ Academic University, and Saint Petersburg inclination to entrepreneurial activities State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. were assessed by CEI faculty through the An international selection event was held in E&I Challenge and E&I slide. The changes Bangkok, Thailand: three students received introduced resulted in stronger commitment the HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of to E&I activities, demonstrated by the intake Thailand Scholarship to study at Skoltech. during Innovation Workshop 2019. The Olympiad track was intensified in Outreach activities included events with faculty partnership with HSE (MSc Data Science), participation on campus, target universities and NTI (MSc Space and Engineering Systems cities. Online marketing included targeted ads (Aerospace Systems track), MSc Information were added with online marketing – targeted Science and Technology (Wireless ads in social networks, top aggregators of MSc Communication Technologies track). Fourteen programs, and context ads in Google and Yandex. winners were offered enrolment to Skoltech. The landing pages for MSc programs were In the end, the campaign resulted in the updated, taking into account users’ feedback and admission of 288 MSc and 128 PhD students the statistics of Yandex Webvisor. from 102 universities in 26 countries. About The content projects included an interactive 57% are the graduates of the top-300 guide on academic life at postnauka.ru – 24 universities (QS, THE). For several years in faculty, 18 video-guides (5000-8000 views each) a row, the majority of students have been and 15 long-reads, which reached more than coming from the top Russian universities 6.8M people via social networks and brought to (MIPT, MSU, HSE). However, due to the the project’s website 350,000 visitors. The project revision of the scholarship policy, the share with vc.ru received 1.2M ad views converted into of students from these universities declined 28,000 reads of special long-read material about to 45% compared to 2018. 4D-printing. More than 35,000 unique views of In addition, 26 visiting students from the two joint materials with knife.media converted Technical University of Munich, the University into 2000 transitions to Skoltech web pages. of Salerno, the Shanghai Institute of Joint interactive material with nplus1.ru reached Biological Science, the Swiss Federal Institute 200,000 users despite the specifics of the IoT, of Technology in Zurich, the Polytechnic and resulted in 1200 leads. University of Turin, IFP, and other universities, 3000 copies of the comics book That’s True joined Skoltech during the year. were distributed. Skoltech 365 movie showed As a pilot approach, eight PhD students a breathtaking story of a first-year student at (CDISE) were enrolled with scholarships Skoltech, receiving rhapsodic feedback from provided by Sberbank, Huawei, Phillips, internal and external audiences. and Samsung.

DMITRY LAKONTSEV, Director of the NTI IoT Center of Excellence: “This is a well-deserved victory. Yurii Katser and Vyacheslav Kozitsin (winners of the Digital Breakthrough Hackaton) graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and they enrolled in Skoltech to take the next step in education and learn to put theoretical knowledge into practice. They are interested in processing industrial data and solving real problems in this area, and Skoltech fully helps them realize their potential and achieve their goals.” 15

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Skoltech is one of the first universities to organize the selection of MSc students using engineering team competitions.

16 Skoltech@NTI Olympiad student track, April 2019.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Co-founder & CEO | FalconAI Technologies, Inc. Technologies, FalconAI | CEO & Co-founder on laserbasedspacecommunication, whileI myfirstcompanyLaserX,focusing I kick-started President, toldusattheopeningceremony. correct asEdwardCrawley, Skoltech Founding Skoltech preparesyoutolife –itis100% an entrepreneurshipmindset.Inanutshell, ofSkoltechstudents. the firstcohort Entrepreneurship. Igraduated in 2015 among (MIT) andcompletedMScinInnovation with MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Therefore, I enrolledtoSkoltechjointprogram to learnmoreabouttechnologicalinnovation. «Skoltech preparesyoutolife» Technology and Science Energy | graduate MSc OLCAY YILMAZCOBAN // SUCCESSSTORY I decidedtojoinSkoltechbecausewanted Skoltech isagreatplacetolearnanddevelop

gamers togetbetter. develop cuttingedgeAItohelp millionsof rightnow.this inEsports We wouldliketo As acompany, todemonstrate we aretrying has greatpotentialtoenableuslearnfaster. FalconAII decidedtostart because IbelieveAI AIPlatform –SenpAI. the world'sfirstEsports in Boston, USA.We areworkingontheoneof Technologies, based startup Inc.,aVC-backed Right now, &CEOofFalconAI I’mCo-founder anddeep-techventureinvesting. start-ups a venturecapitalfundtolearnmoreabout entrepreneurship experience,Idecidedtojoin myfirst was stillastudentatSkoltech.After /01 /01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE

Skoltech. Gateway to the World // SUCCESS STORY ANNA DUBOVIK MSc graduate / Data Science Head of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning at Gazprom Neft

«My experience at Skoltech was fun, unlimited, and uprising» I received a Master of Science in Computer Hackathons and served as a Secretary of Science and Data Visualization degree from the Student Council. Since my graduation, Skoltech in 2015. My experience at Skoltech I have applied the experience from Skoltech was fun, unlimited, and uprising. I am madly in my “Technology and Education” public in love with Skoltech people and administration speaking and workshops, as well as at my team that worked hard at the very start of work. Currently I am the Head of the Data Skoltech (Bram Caplan and admission office is Science Department at Gazprom Neft, leading a great love of every first-year student, I think). the advanced analytics and machine learning In my days a great opportunity was to help team. Skoltech was an amazing school for organize Selection Weekends (back in the days “communicating your way” with business. it was 3 days long) – I’ve made my most long- As first-year students, we had no boarders term friendships during these activities and we in what we were allowed to do and that was stay in touch no matter how far. the best part. Of course, some people were My thesis at Skoltech was dedicated to unhappy with “uncertainty”, but as it turned professional social media analysis. I also out when you start a real job, “nothing is was a member of winning teams in several certain” and Skoltech made me ready for that.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Internship at 1QBit in Waterloo, Canada Waterloo, in 1QBit at Internship I reallyenjoyedNonlinearOptics byProfessor centers.Concerningtheclasses, different from she prefersandworkwithsupervisors Skoltech, asonecantakeany classesheor of theeducationalandresearch processat Skoltech's scholarshipprogram. ability tobefinanciallyindependentthanks the English-speakingenvironmentand build myownuniqueeducationaltrack, to interested becauseoftheopportunity MIPT, Ilearned aboutSkoltechandbecame Energetics. Attheendofmyfinalyearat ofProblems ofPhysicsandthe Department research processatSkoltech» «I reallyappreciatedtheflexibilityofeducationaland Materials Quantum & Photonics | graduate MSc ALEXANDER BEREZUTSKII // SUCCESSSTORY I receivedmyBachelor'sdegreeatMIPT, Overall, Ireallyappreciatedtheflexibility

internship at1QBitinWaterloo, Canada. two yearsinmyMasterprogram. visit therewasmybestexperience ofthese Thanks inBudapest,my to my co-advisor ifpossible. to takesuchanopportunity graduate project.Iwouldhighlyrecommend in Moscow, andfullydevotemy timetothe problems andresponsibilitiesIfaceeveryday the sensethatIcouldunplugmyselffrom niceexperienceinSkoltech. Itwasavery program inthelastyearofmystudies at Professor Podladchikova. DataProcessingShipulin andExperimental by In thisgapyearIwillhave a year-long intheacademic mobility I alsoparticipated /01 /01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE

Skoltech. Gateway to the World Student support Student life

Skoltech is committed to shape a favorable The Skoltech Student Council was active environment and high-quality services to in organizing community-building events, students. The Student Department organized including the Talent Show, International services on migration support, military Night, and the New Year’s party. Student registration, accommodation, and the design Initiation and Science Slam – a special of student community-building spaces. festival for young scientists – were held for International students were accommodated in the first time. Tetris and other apartments and a shuttle bus to Student life was also enriched with campus was launched. According to the survey, multiple opportunities provided by sports 84% are satisfied with the accommodation. clubs (football, hockey, tennis, volleyball, Interfaith prayer and a meditation room, basketball), dance clubs, music clubs, and a meditation room, and a special musical volunteer clubs. A number of volunteer rehearsal room were opened on campus. events, such as master-classes for Open An agreement was reached with the Moscow Horizons and Sheredar Foundations, Social Register so that students can apply for Charity, and Donor Days on campus were a student social card. The ISIC international conducted. student card's issuing is already launched.

ANNA KOTTSOVA, President of Skoltech Student Council: “This year we created several new traditions inside student body. Having started from constant dialog with Skoltech administration we managed to develop not only entertaining but also educational and socially oriented events. Sports, hobbies and all kinds of hidden 20 talents – we help students to explore it all and share with the whole Skoltech community.”

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech’s Got Talent. 21

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE 22 Skoltech’s Got Talent.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH The New Year’s party. 23

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE ADMINISTRATION

As of the end of the year, the interviews to receive employees’ feedback and administration comprised 376 employees, identify areas that require attention. 52% of which are female. The mentoring program for team The HR team was active in designing and assistants was held to improve the quality launching new initiatives to support incoming of administrative support – seminars on employees. For example, the onboarding operations, and requirements for document program was launched – each new employee processing were conducted on a regular is provided with a welcome “First days in basis. Training seminars on new processes Skoltech” package, which offers a guide (e.g., docflow in electronic systems, on key administrative processes. After the travel procedures) were available to all probation period, HR conducts personal administrative staff.

24 Skoltech team takes part in the "Legal Run Skolkovo 2019".

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech Charity Day, May, 2019. 25

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Summary Data

ACADEMIC & ENGINEERING PERSONNEL

Faculty by average length of Faculty by rank employment in Skoltech (years)

Professor Professor 4.3 100 100 of the Practice of the Practice 4.3 22% 22% 27% 28%27% 28% 80 Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor 3.4 3.4 80 22% 22% 23% 21% 60 60 23% 21% Full Professor Full Professor 3.2 3.2

40 40 Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor 2.7 2.7 56% 56% 50% 51%50% 51% 20 20 Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor2.3 2.3

Associate Professor 0 0 Associate Professor 1.9 2017 20182017 20192018 2019 of the Practice of the Practice1.9 Junior Mid-careerJunior Mid-careerSenior Senior

04Faculty by type04 ,5of employment,5 Academic & engineering personnel CEI CAS CEI 1% CAS 7% 100 CPQM 1% 7% CDISE 100 26% CPQM 9% 36% CDISE 31% 80 39% 26% 9% 80 39% 36% CEST 31% 60 CEST 14% 60 14% 40 74% 61% 64% Other CLS 40 74% Other 3% CLS 7% 2061% 64% 3% 7% 20 SC 3% CNBR 5% 0 SC 3% CNBR 5% 2017 2018 2019 CHR 11% CDMM 9% 0 2017 2018 2019 Full Part-time CHR 11% CDMM 9% Full Part-time Categories: faculty (excl. visiting), researchers (excl. research interns), research engineers, software engineers, technicians 26

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH STUDENT INTAKE & COHORT

Enrollment by level of studies Recruitment funnel 500

400 356 2017 2018 2019 288 300 255 Applications 11011 15641 13881

200 158 Invited to pre-selection 3642 3596 4346 128 118 Invited to selection 842 848 941 100 Enrolled 373 514 416

0 % of enrolled 3% 3% 3% 2017 2018 2019

MSc PhD

Enrollment by university International enrollments by region of previous affiliation

100% 100% 100% 100%

28% 30% 28% 23%30% 23% 80% 80% 80% 80% 45% 44% 45%49% 44% 49% 18% 18% 60% 60% 60% 60% 30% 30% 4% 5% 4% 5% 34% 34% 7% 6% 7% 6% 8% 8% 8% 8% 21% 21% 40% 40% 40% 40% 16% 16% 15% 15% 15% 15% 16% 16% 14% 14% 14% 14% 12% 12% 20% 20% 20% 20% 9% 9% 28% 29% 28%21% 29% 21% 19% 13% 19% 19% 13% 19% 0 0 0 0 2017 2018 20172019 2018 2019 2017 20182017 20192018 2019

MIPT MSUMIPT MSU Europe AmericasEurope Americas HSE BMSTUHSE BMSTU Asia AfricaAsia & Middle EastAfrica & Middle East

Other universities Other universities CIS CIS 27

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Students by gender International students in cohort

1200 1200

960 960 CIS CIS Europe Europe 316 316 293 293 25% 25% 21% 21% 720 720 211 211 Americas Americas 480 480 746 746 10% 10% 684 684 495 495 Africa Africa 240 240 & & Middle Middle 0 0 East East Asia Asia 2017 20182017 20192018 2019 28% 28% 16% 16%

Male FemaleMale Female

MSc & PhD graduates 2019

Job seeking PhD 6% Russia Other 1% 1% High tech High tech & Russia research 24% abroad 7%

PhD abroad 13%

Startup 3% Research PhD Skoltech Russia 15% 30%

28

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Summary Data

Administration by age

153

86

40

39

66 67 46 7 8 10 0 7 20-29 30-3940-49 50-5960+

Female Male

Administration by core functions

376 376 105 105 101 101 127 127 71 71 110 110 90 90 144 101 144 50 101 0 50 0 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019

CREI support Academic support CREI support Academic support Back office Back office Academic Support – personnel in functional directions (Student Affairs, Strategic Communications, Institutional Development, Industry Programs, KTO etc.) 29

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Institutional Governance & Development

The Institute’s collegial governance bodies are the Founders’ Assembly, the Board of Trustees, and the Academic Council.

Founders president and global head of Cyber Security Protection at Siemens (Germany), to the The Founders’ Assembly is the highest membership of the Board. collegial governance body empowered to The Board committees met on an approve Skoltech charter, make decisions ad hoc basis. The executive committee on the membership of the Board of Trustees, reviewed the year-closure report, providing and principles to form the Academic Council. recommendations on balancing the share of In 2019, the Founders endorsed the MSc & PhD students during the following rotated composition of the Academic Council, years. The audit committee provided regular approved amendments to the charter, and oversight of Skoltech financial reporting, unanimously supported entering of JSC external audit, and a system of internal Sberbank to Skoltech Founders. control. In December, the founders held a remarkable meeting giving high praise Academic Council to the president’s report and addressing strategic issues of further development such In September, the Academic Council as opening bachelor programs, graduates’ kicked off in rotated composition presented career paths, and the extension of campus by senior faculty, administration, alumni, construction. and invited experts. The council held two meetings where it supported the Board of Trustees draft of the Strategic Action Plan update, approved the results of student recruitment The Board of Trustees held four meetings, campaign, the admission plan 2020, and where they approved the Annual Report made recommendations on the undergrads 2018 and interim progress reports on the research opportunity programs. execution of Strategic Action Plan. The Board The council committees were fully also made positive resolutions on the update operational, making decisions on faculty of the KPIs, continuation of the partnership appointment, promotion, and contract with MIT as well as Financial Plan 2020- renewal, research projects, and facilities, 2022. Major recommendations were offered and the educational process. The council on intensifying activities for students’ career rotated the appointment, promotion & tenure opportunities, increasing the efficiency committee, and the research & innovation of R&D projects, and making greater committee. No consensus was reached efforts required for brand advancement. on the composition of the educational In December, the Board supported the committee; the rotation was postponed candidacy of Simon Bradley, senior vice to 2020.

ALEXANDER KULESHOV, Skoltech President: “Today, Sberbank is without doubt Russia’s most technologically advanced company with ambitious and viable development plans. As we continue to work with and for Sberbank, it is only natural for Sberbank to join Skoltech founding members. The most valuable aspect of our partnership is that Sberbank acts as an anchor employer for a large part of 30 our graduates who will shape the future scientific and technological elite of Russia.”

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH The meeting of Skoltech Founders. Skoltech, December 2019.

HERMAN GREF, President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank: “Russia’s future will be determined by the quality of its human resources capable of sustaining acute competition in the technology sector. Skoltech is one of the few educational institutions that we can count on as a source of top-notch professionals. As a technology-oriented company, Sberbank puts a high value on the cooperation with Skoltech”. 31

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Academic Council & Committees Members

Students & alumni 3% External 12% Faculty Faculty representation 59% Full Professors 12

Associate Professors 6

Professors of the Practice 2 Administration 26% 40% of Academic Council faculty serve on Committees.

Academic Council faculty are full-time, working experience in Skoltech ~ 4 years

Breakdown of resolutions

Hiring, promotion, renewals, nominations 97

Research projects, equipment 35

Education 13

Procedural issues, policy making 7

Strategy & planning 2

32 097

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Policymaking development, and execution of the lab construction & relocation plan. The Institute’s policymaking was renewed The cycle was closed with a positive with the policy on policies. The document issued resolution from the Board of Trustees on the by the president governs core principles and Strategic Action Plan and Financial Plan. procedures for policies development (update) to ensure consistency, appropriateness, and Institute’s senior management, compliance with rules adopted. organizational structure During the year, 31 policies & regulations were issued. In the main documents there The major changes in the senior was policy on planning, responsibilities management structure included: between the president and the president’s direct subordinates, the code of ethics, events • The revision of authorities of the provost, policy, policies regulating students’ admission, vice presidents, and the president’s regulations on select administration advisors by extending their approval & departments. Core policies, such as the code signing powers. of ethics and admission rules, were reviewed • The appointment of Professor Stevenson and approved by the Academic Council. as the provost, based on the resolution Based on employees’ feedback received of the Board. on policies application as well as the • The appointment of Professor Abakumov Institute’s needs to regulate select issues, as CEST director, based on the resolution the policy making plan 2020 was developed. of the Board. The focus will be on issuing policies related • The appointment of Professor Kotelevtsev to Skoltech organization (CREIs, laboratories, as CNBR interim director. shared facilities). • Splitting the authorities of the vice president for real estate & facilities Strategic planning cycle (resigned in July) between the vice president for finance & operations and The formal strategic planning cycle was the head of campus construction & initiated with a goal to balance ongoing management department. and prospective tasks, prioritize resources, and coordinate functional strategies. The In terms of improving the efficiency of cycle was led by a senior management Skoltech’s organizational structure, HR team, which elaborated an approach on function was consolidated by merging the updating of Strategic Action Plan and the Faculty Affairs Office with the HR financial model and provided inputs on Department. The Strategic Communications mechanisms to improve ongoing operations. Department was strengthened with regards The special strategic session was held to to PR, marketing & brand development agree on priorities for 2020, including functions. The Institutional Development focused CREI programs, participation in Department was consolidated by merging the large governmental initiatives & programs, Monitoring & Report Office and the Academic efficiency of R&D projects, student career Initiatives Office.

33

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Several units were established in the CREIs:

The Laboratory of Omics Technologies and Big The Deep Quantum Laboratory (Professor Data for Personalized Medicine and Health Biamonte) will focus on the computational (Professor Borchers) will conduct research capacity of physical systems and processes, under the Megagrant program of the Russian quantum effects for the enhancement of Ministry of Science and Higher Education, computational tasks such as machine as well as develop a standardized targeted learning, optimization and the simulation mass spectrometry (MS)-based assays to of physical systems, the creation of quantify human proteins in all human tissues classical simulations of stochastic and and biofluids, including disease-related open quantum systems and of quantum mutations and modifications. The assays will information processing devices/ systems. be validated and could be commercialized as services offered and as easy-to-use kits.

The Leading Research Center Open 5G The Digital Agriculture Lab (Professor Radio Access Networks (Dr. Shub) will Gentzbittel) will focus on technologies implement a new project in the framework important for nutrition and metabolism of Russian National Program “Digital as a part of general health strategy, which Economy”. The produced equipment will is considerably based on the similar be compliant with the international open biological sciences, competences, and standard OpenRAN. This means that national research technics in cell, molecular, vendors will have a unique opportunity to gene-biologics, and computational analyses. enter the global market with their products. The laboratory will have an educational program with support of global partners (Bayer, Syngenta) and regional hubs with local agro universities and research institutes.

VITALY SHUB, Director of the Leading Research Center Open 5G Radio Access Networks: «For Skoltech, telecommunications have always been among the strategic targets. We have gained vast expertise and deep knowledge of the industry and put together what I believe is the strongest team of telecom experts in Russia. We work closely with operators and industrial companies operating locally and internationally. Collaborations with Russia’s 34 leading manufacturers and operators are the key to success for our LRC project».

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Advisor for Security Andrey Simonov Security Campus Construction & Management OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OPERATIONAL VP Tatyana Zakharova Tatyana Finance & Operations Finance Finance & Administration Finance HR Legal Procurement IT Internal Control VP Lawrence Stein Lawrence CEI Int. Business Affairs, IP Provost PRESIDENT FOUNDERS Keith Stevenson Keith CREIs Shared Facilities Education Research Alexander Kuleshov Alexander BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BOARD ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ACADEMIC AND VALUE GENERATION VALUE AND VP Alexey Ponomarev Alexey Industrial Programs R&D Contracts Analysis STD Industry Liaison Industrial Cooperation COUNCIL ACADEMIC VP Development DEVELOPMENT Inst. Development Student Affairs Alexander Safonov Alexander AND GOVERNANCE AND VP Alexey Sitnikov Alexey Communications STRATEGIC & ORGANIZATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL & STRATEGIC Open Learning Strategic Communications Strategic (as of December 31, 2019) Organizational Chart (as of December 31, 35

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE KEY INDICATORS OF DEVELOPMENT

In accordance with the Strategic Action Plan, Skoltech progress is measured through a system of key indicators reflecting the results of academic excellence & value generation. The president reports the status of execution of indicators to the Board of Trustees on a quarterly basis.

Indicator: Publications in Web of Science, Scopus

Annotation: The indicator defines a ratio of faculty Result: Skoltech exceeded the target (4.1), publications affiliated with Skoltech, indexed in maintaining the highest quality of publication Web of Science, Scopus, to the average faculty output. Skoltech faculty published 597 papers, headcount2. The indicator is included in the including 693 in the prestigious Nature Index Russian Federation State Program “Economic journals. The Institute’s total output (papers of Development and Innovative Economy” as a academic personnel and students) is presented with measure of Skoltech academic excellence. 1008 papers, 503 of which are in Q1 journals4.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (units per average faculty) 2.5 4.4 5.6 5.8 6.3

Indicator: MSc & PhD graduates Annotation: The indicator tracks annual Result: Graduation for 2019 is ahead of graduation in MSc and PhD programs.The the plan (240), which is explained by the indicator is included in the Russian Federation circulation of the student cohort as well State Program “Economic Development and reducing the percentage of students’ expulsions. Innovative Economy” in terms of the target to The cumulative number of MSc and PhD have 1000 graduates in 2020 (cumulative). graduates is 652.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (persons) 51 81 92 176 252

Indicator: Graduates involved in innovation activities

Annotation: The indicator tracks the Result: The Institute reached the target of 70% in employability of graduates in Russian high- spite of the growing graduate cohort. The majority tech and research sectors as well as the ability of graduates were employed within 4 months of graduates to establish or join startups. The after graduation. The year marked an increase in indicator is included in the Russian Federation graduates employed in research organizations, as State Program “Economic Development and well as a decline in the percentage of graduates Innovative Economy”. continuing for a PhD at Skoltech (15%).

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (%) 51 67 67 69 70

2 As of Dec 31, 2019 – 94.7. 3 Out of 98 papers published in 2019 by Skoltech employees and students in total. Data as of Jan 15, 2020. 36 4 Data as of Feb 27, 2020 (SciVal).

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Indicator: Attracted funding Annotation: The indicator tracks external funds Result: The Institute demonstrated growth (sources, other than the SK grant) – sponsored in attracting funding, exceeding the target research (grants and contracts), services of shared (1250 mln RUB). Funds under R&D contracts facilities, professional training, IP sales, licensing, comprise 74% of the total amount of attracted attracted during the year. The actual result is funding. In 2019, Skoltech had 278 projects calculated as committed funds under contracts. under grants and R&D contracts.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (mln RUB) 265 348 554.7 1112 1595

Indicator: Patent applications Measure: Counts the total number of patent Result: The total number of patent applications applications for IP created at Skoltech to the is on track with the target (0.4); however, average faculty headcount. The indicator is it fell short compared to 2018 (0.5). The tracked from 2017, considering the speed of majority of applications are for “invention” and developing Skoltech capacities. “utility model.”

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (units per average faculty) NA NA 0.2 0.5 0.4

Indicator: startups with Skolkovo residency Measure: This shows the cumulative number Result: The cumulative number of startups of startups, established by Skoltech faculty, is on track with the target (40). In 2019, researchers, students, or alumni, which received the Skoltech portfolio of startups increased the status of Skolkovo resident. The indicator is by 12 companies, established by academic included in the Russian Federation State Program personnel of СDISE, CDMM, CLS, CPQM, and “Economic Development and Innovative Economy” alumni (SC). Several companies are the results to monitor Skoltech entrepreneurial activity and of projects supported under the Translational contribution to developing the Skolkovo ecosystem. Research Program.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Actual (units, cumulative) 9 12 19 26 40

Indicator: External funding Measure: The income from grants, R&D Result: The result of the year exceeded the contracts, professional training, licensing, and target (25%). Major income was received endowment to the Institute’s total expenses under R&D contracts (61%), grants (20%), and (excl. capital expenditures for campus interest from endowment (14%). Other sources construction and investments into equipment). of income included professional training, This is calculated as cash received. services of shared facilities, and sublease.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Actual (%) 15 15 20 25 26.5 37

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Strategic Communications

PR activity

Compared to 2018, the number of references in the media increased by more than 60% (in online media, the growth amounted to more than 5000 references). Separately, it is worth noting the twofold increase in TV reports involving the Skoltech leadership, professors, and researchers, amounting to 108 in 2019.

2018 2019

References to Skoltech5 10031 16364

Federal 6178 8220

Regional 3193 6941

Foreign 660 1203

Online media ~9000 ~15000

News agencies reports 500+ 800+

TV 65 108

Scientific communications

The increase in media activity from the the field of scientific communication was the preparation of press releases based on scientific access to foreign news platforms: in 2019, the papers by faculty and their distribution in number of references to Skoltech in foreign the media amounted to more than 40% (38 media exceeded 1200, more than 600 of scientific press releases were issued in 2018, which were in a foreign language. An essential and 55 in 2019). The total audience coverage role in this was played by the sustainable in 2019 through the distribution of scientific interaction of the Strategic Communications news in the media amounted to more than Department with EurekAlert!, a leading 1,500 media references. A breakthrough in scientific news aggregator in English.

Altmetric Top 100 A visible result in online communication 100 best research works from all over the and social media was the paper titled world. The publication became the absolute “Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic leader by the number of reposts on the Web Neural Talking Head Models,” authored by for the 7 years of the existence of this rating. CDISE and Samsung AI Center researchers More than half of the news reports which and students, Egor Zakharov, Aliaksandra contained a reference to Skoltech's scientific Shisheya, Egor Burkov, and Professor Victor result were on CNN, Forbes, The Sun, Lempitsky; it was listed #1 in Altmetric Top Newsweek, FOX News Channel.

EGOR ZAKHAROV, PhD student (CDISE): “Our paper is inspired by the need to develop better telepresence solutions for augmented and virtual reality. The important component of telepresence applications is a realistic simulation of a person’s appearance, which we try to perfect with the power of deep learning.”

38 5 Medialogia reports 2018-2019.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Marketing

Skoltech actively improved application in social media, Google and Yandex) of its own resources, information carriers, attracted more than 50% of the website presentation, and branded materials. In traffic among applicants and played a 2019, more than 30 high-quality webpages key role in attracting participants to the for promoting educational programs, Machine Learning Summer School (800 services, and opportunities at Skoltech were applications and 250 participants), developed. The highlight is a promo video Machine Learning Community Day (900 called "Skoltech 365," which immerses the registrations and 450 participants), the audiences in Skoltech atmosphere and shows SpaceUp conference (250 registrations), its key benefits. and other events. The marketing team Skoltech developed internal expertise started a project on the re-launch of in digital marketing: new online channels Skoltech official website and creation of (targeted and contextual advertising unified brand guidelines.

Featured scenes from the filming of Skoltech 365: a video that shows Skoltech through the story of a student from Italy. The filming lasted for over 23 hours non-stop and included more than 40 crew members and 30 actors. All faculty members in this movie played themselves. 39

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Social media

In 2019, there was a rapid growth in traffic and conversion (for paid traffic from social networks) across all the Skoltech social media platforms. The increased number of followers and their deeper involvement is strengthening brand recognition and loyalty.

+185% followers +17% followers +12% followers (4.0k vs 1,4k) (9.5k vs 11,1k) (17.3k vs 15.5k) +66.1k views

+36%followers +52% followers www.skoltech.ru (5.6k vs 4.1k) (1.9K vs 1.25k) 167k unique visitors 5.5k unique visitors +66.1k views +240 Publications

On October 2, 2019, a press tour for Russian journalists took place in a new Skoltech campus for the first time. Representatives of almost two dozen socio-political and popular science media visited the 40 Skoltech laboratories and met with the scientists.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Media projects

The Horizons of Physics Mathematical Walks Sci-comic book “That’s True”6 project in collaboration (Paulsen Publishing The team for the project with Kommersant / House) conducted a series of public Ogonek. A collection of interviews discussions involving scientists, Seven interviews were “Mathematical walks” (30 artists, and writers within published in 2019 interviews with prominent the framework of major (including interviews mathematicians, including Russian sci-popular events. with Skoltech an interview with Abel Among them are the book Professor Nasibulin Prize Laureate (2015) festival in Red Square, the and Principal Research Jacob Sinai, Fields Medal CheapCherryBooks book fair, Scientist Feigelman). Laureate (2006) Andrei the Moscow Science Festival, All interviews (editorial Okounkov) is being the official opening of the choice) were prepared for re-release in Okhta Library in St. Petersburg, recognized as preparation for the World and others. Two thousand the best materials Mathematical Congress in new books were printed and of the issue. St. Petersburg (ICM 2022). successfully distributed.

Skoltech Laboratory at the How to enroll at Skoltech? Ghost in zshell. Solving a Polytechnic Museum (PostNauka)6 mystery using IoT (N+1)6 Six applications for 18 Publications, Review Investigation quiz for participation in the project. article, Interview, Video applicants Opening of the Skoltech interview, Game test for Audience outreach: laboratory in the renovated applicants 350,000; Polytech on December 12, 4,550,329 views (website, Participants: 25,000; 2020. YouTube, social media). Finalists: 1,235

Doing scientific business What is 4D printing in What should innovation properly. Five startups simple terms? (VC.RU)6 education be like? established by young scientists Review article (НОЖ/knife.media)6 (INC.RUSSIA)6 Audience outreach: Longread on Skoltech's 5 Longreads 1,252,112; innovative approach to STEM 101,099 views. 28,503 unique users. education – 3,500 unique readers. Test of scientific thinking – 18,000 participants. 6 In collaboration with Student Department; 41

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE “Ostrov 10-22”. July, 2019.

It drew over 1500 participants from across Russia and abroad, representing a twofold increase since 42 the previous year.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH In addition, the media projects team developed and issued promo materials at large Skoltech events such as Gateway to the World (4500 copies), Research Infrastructure (30 copies), Supercomputer “Zhores”7 (200 copies), and Instruments of Neurorehabilitation8 (200 copies).

Awards

Skoltech sci-comic book “That's True” • “Communication Laboratory” (2nd place) received a number of awards: for best sci-communication in Russia • Diploma of the 5th All-Russian Award (June 2019); “For Fidelity to Science” in the • Long-list of Prosvetitel Award “Breakthrough of the Year” category (June 2019). (February 2019);

Events

In 2019, Skoltech conducted more than 200 Doors, selection weekends, and site tours. events. Most of them were organized at the Among key external events there was an new campus. The majority of events were education conference, Ostrov 10-22, seminars scientific conferences and seminars, delegation by the Moscow School of Management and visits, round tables with representatives of major Russian companies (e.g. Severstal, the business community and academia. Russian Railways). In total, 10,200 external Student recruitment events included Open participants visited the campus.

Campus visitors by event type Events by type

Other Community External External 4765 Other 9% Community building External 17% 9% External 4765 building 9% 17% Scientific & educational 2593 9% Scientific & educational Student outreach2593 & Governance recruitment 1218 8% Student outreach & Governance recruitment 1218 8% Business 945 Business Business 945 Business 11% Governance 311 11% Student Scientific & Governance 311 educational Student outreach & Scientific & Community building 251 37% outreach & recruitment 9% educational Community building 251 recruitment 9% 37% Other 118 Other 118

0 4765 0 4765

7 In collaboration with CDISE 8 In collaboration with CNBR 43

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Fundraising

Over the course of the year, the main goal the endowment, including joint events with the was to create the concept of fundraising at Andrei Melnichenko Foundation, the Gennady Skoltech and establish strong cases of mutually and Elena Timchenko Foundation, the Potanin beneficial forms of charity-based cooperation Foundation and the Dmitry Zimin Foundation with partners. More specifically, the priorities and others. were to extend Skoltech reach and gain The year resulted in received commitment support within Skoltech and the larger from a corporate donor (~ $2 mln) in support Skolkovo community while also attracting of CNBR activities for 2020-2022; Skolkovo outside businesses, charity foundations, etc. Ventures contributed 1 mln rubles to the A series of special events were conducted on Skoltech endowment, and several funding and off campus to engage potential donors to proposals are pending approval.

44 A fundraising event in support of the CNBR activities. April, 2019.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH A fundraising event in support of the CNBR activities. April, 2019. 45

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

Partnerships

The Skoltech network of academic & Imperial College of London) in the TU Munich industrial partners covers more than 300 application as a University of Excellence, organizations in most developed countries of which got the award in July. Both partners the world. Partnerships are held in different applied for the Erasmus+ mobility project formats – joint laboratories, research projects, and won the EU grant for student and faculty faculty-to-faculty exchange, students’ exchange for 2020-2022. academic mobility, and double degree The bilateral program on educational, programs & cotutelle. research, and innovation activities in The year marked advancements in shaping medicine, neuroscience and big data strategic partnerships. The agreement on MIT processing was signed with TAU (Israel). Phase III was signed in December. Governed The partnership network was extended by a five-year agreement, Phase III will by memorandums of understanding with build on the most successful aspects of the the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre previous collaboration, mainly focusing on (Toyo University, Japan), the RIKEN Center faculty joint research projects. for Biosystems Dynamics Research (Japan), A strategic collaboration agreement was the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), the signed with the Technical University of Technical University of Madrid (Spain), the Munich (Germany). Skoltech became one Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), and of two international partners (neighboring other universities.

International initiatives

Skoltech is actively integrating into and oilfield chemistry, cancer energy international networks. In July, the first TEDx metabolism, and medicine inefficiency. Later was organized by students – nine speakers in November, a Skoltech delegation attended gave inspiring talks on entrepreneurship, the Falling Walls annual conference in science, creative writing, and other topics Berlin, which brought together international to an audience of 100+ participants community of scientists and entrepreneurs from Skoltech, Russian, and international from all over the globe. universities. Skoltech continued to participate in the The Falling Walls Lab, a unique CDIO initiative as well as the Teaching and international platform for leaders in science, Learning Career Framework initiative of the business, politics, arts, and society, was held Royal Academy of Engineering. Its presence in May at Skoltech. Contestants presented within these networks is a key element of the ideas on social isolation, power inefficiency future global engagement strategy.

Global Campus To encourage international diversity, took a Russian language course, and also Skoltech continued to support the Global had the opportunity to take select courses. Campus program. Twenty-one students from Applications for the summer program 2020 Stanford University, MIT, Brigham Young have been received from students of Stanford University, the State University of New York, University, Harvard University, Brigham Young the University of Bristol, and the Oxford University, the University of Massachusetts, 46 University participated in research internships, and the University of Tennessee.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Global rankings

In 2019, Skoltech launched efforts to the Innovation and Impact Summit (THE) organize participation in the major rankings in April 2020. organizations – Times Higher Education (THE) Denis Stolyarov, Head of the Student and Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS). Department, gave a presentation at QS World The associate provost, Professor Fortin, Grad School Tour on "Things to keep in mind presented two invited keynote speeches – when choosing a Grad School," guiding the one at the QS Conversation Summit and one audience on how to select the university, at the THE Digital Transformation Forum; prepare motivation letters, request reference he will give a presentation on Skoltech at letters, etc.

The Technical University of Munich and Skoltech sign an international cooperation agreement and a student exchange. May 2019. 47

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Skoltech Partnership Network

North America

South America

NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA

CANADA USA CHILE University of Calgary | Massachusetts Institute Universidad de Santiago Cotutelle Agreement of Technology (MIT) | de Chile | Academic Ecole Polytechnique Strategic Partner Exchange Montreal | Partnership Schlumberger | Agreement R&D Projects TEDx Topcon | Joint Lab University of Dayton | R&D Projects

RICHARD LESTER, associate provost for international activities at MIT: «We share many intellectual and practical interests with our Skoltech colleagues, yet collaborations like this also exist in the context of complicated and dynamic international relations. The broader US-Russia relationship was necessarily a factor in our review and planning of the MIT-Skoltech collaboration. In the rapidly changing global environment, MIT’s international collaborations must remain aligned with our core mission and values. Learning about the world, helping to solve the world’s greatest problems, and working with colleagues around the world who share our curiosity and commitment to rigorous

48 scientific inquiry and free and open exchange are core values for MIT». map designed by freepik.com The

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Asia Australia

ASIA AUSTRALIA

CHINA JAPAN SAUDI ARABIA AUSTRALIA East China University Toyohashi University Saudi Aramko | R&D Curtin University of Science and Technology | of Technology (TUT) | Projects of Technology | Partnership Agreement Student Exchange Cotutelle Agreement Huawei Technologies Co. | Toyo University Bio Nano SOUTH KOREA University of New Joint Lab Electronics Research LG Electronics | R&D South Wales | Alibaba | R&D Projects Center | Academic Projects Partnership Agreement Exchange Samsung | R&D Projects INDIA RIKEN Center Indian Institute for Biosystems Dynamics THAILAND of Technology Bombay | Research | Academic National Science Academic Exchange Exchange and Technology Kindai University | Development ISRAEL Student Exchange Agency (NSTDA) | Ben-Gurion University University Academic Exchange of the Negev | of Electro-Communications Vidyasirimedhi Institute Joint Research (UEC) | Academic Exchange of Science and Tel Aviv University (TAU) | RIKEN Center Technology | Strategic Partner for Advanced Intelligence Partnership Agreement Projects | Partnership Agreement UAE Kyoto University | University of Sharjah | R&D Projects Partnership Agreement

49

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Europe

BELGIUM GERMANY ITALY SERBIA KU Leuven | Partnership Bayer | Joint Center University of Salerno | University of Belgrade | Agreement for Crop Production Joint Research Partnership Agreement Bosch | R&D Projects Politecnico di Milano | CYPRUS Brainlab AG | R&D Student Exchange SPAIN Cyprus Institute | Projects University of Pisa | Technical University Partnership Agreement AM Munich Research Academic Exchange Madrid (UPM) | Institute GmbH | Universitá degli studi Partnership Agreement FINLAND Joint Lab di Perugia | Aalto University | Cotutelle Technical University Partnership SWEDEN Agreement of Munich Agreement Huawei Technologies (TUM) | Strategic Bruno Kessler Sweden AB | R&D Projects FRANCE Partner Foundation | Grenoble Institute German Aerospace Academic Exchange SWITZERLAND of Technology (Grenoble Center (DLR) | University of Lausanne | INP) | Student Exchange Academic Exchange NETHERLANDS Academic Exchange Airbus | R&D Projects Ulm University | Philips | Joint Lab University of Geneva | College de France | Academic Exchange Partnership Agreement R&D Projects Bergakademie ROMANIA Oerlikon | Joint Lab Total | R&D Projects Freiberg TU | Babes-Bolyai Université Grenoble Alpes | Partnership University | UK Cotutelle Agreements Agreement Partnership Agreement Iskania | R&D Projects Institut Supérieur University of East Anglia | de l'Aéronautique Partnership Agreement et de l'Espace | Partnership Agreement National Institute for Agricultural Research |

50 Partnership Agreement map designed by freepik.com The

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Russia

All-Russian Rice Research Institute of Problems Moscow Institute SamaraNIPIneft | Institute | Joint Research of Chemical Physics | of Physics and Technology | R&D Projects Bashkir State Medical Research Center Research and Education Sberbank | Joint Lab University | Joint Lab Institute of Solid State Activities Severstal | R&D Projects Bashkir State University | Physics | Partnership Moscow State University | St. Petersburg Academic Joint Lab Agreement Research and Education University | Bauman Moscow ITMO University | Activities Partnership Agreement State Technological Partnership Agreement National University St. Petersburg State University | Kazan Federal University | of Science and Technology University | Partnership Network educational Research and Education MISIS | Partnership Agreement Program Activities Agreement Stavropol State Agrarian BIOCAD | R&D Projects Keldysh Institute Novosibirsk State University | R&D Projects Mendeleev University for Applied Mathematics | University | Network Surgut State University | of Chemical Technology Partnership Agreement Educational Program Partnership Agreement of Russia | Research Center Koltsov Institute Peter the Great TESIS | R&D Projects Far Eastern Federal of Developmental Biology | St.Petersburg Polytechnic Tomsk State University University | Network Partnership Agreement University | Partnership of Control Systems and Educational Program Landau Institute for Agreement Radioelectronics | Gazprom Neft | Joint Lab Theoretical Physics | Research Center Network Educational Program Generium | R&D Projects Partnership Agreement of Neurology | Joint Lab TsAGI | R&D Projects Higher School of Lebedev Physical Rosatom | R&D Projects TsNIIMash | R&D Projects Economics | Research Institute | Partnership Rosseti | R&D Projects Ufa State Aviation and Education Activities Agreement Russian Post | Joint Lab Technical University | Immanuel Kant Baltic LUKOIL-Engineering | Saint Petersburg Joint Lab Federal University | R&D Projects State University Ural Federal University | Partnership Agreement Messoyakhaneftegaz | of Aerospace Partnership Agreement Institute of Gene R&D Projects Instrumentation | VNIINEFT | R&D Projects Biology | Miratorg Genetics | Network Educational Zarubezhneft | R&D Joint Research R&D Projects Program Projects 51

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE Visits & delegations

In 2019, Skoltech welcomed 171 national representatives of international governmental & international high-level delegations at the organizations, research institutions, and business new campus. The majority of delegations were (France, Germany, Serbia, China, South Korea).

German Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas, visited the Skoltech campus. He met with the Skoltech leadership, students, and faculty. Skoltech students talked about their projects, scientific developments and research.

Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea Hong Nam-ki headed a delegation of Korean Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economics. This was the first time that a Korean delegation visited Skoltech, and during the visit the Deputy PM toured the campus, visiting the FabLab, and met 52 with Innovation Workshop student groups who talked about their projects.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH On October 23, 2019, Skoltech played host to the Russia-Thailand Round Table on Education and Research. This is a follow-up from last year’s Thailand-Russia Round Table on Education and Research 2018. One of the key achievements of last year’s Thailand-Russia Round Table was that it led to the formal signing of the collaboration agreement between Skoltech and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand, and the establishment of the “HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Scholarship,” each year giving three gifted Thai students the opportunity to study at Skoltech.

A Japanese delegation comprised of nineteen representatives from major Japanese corporations and institutions (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Shibaura Institute of Technology, etc.) visited Skoltech. The visit was part of an overseas study mission of the 14th Japan CTO Forum program, an annual event that brings together chief technological officers from Japan’s leading companies to help strengthen industrial competitiveness and product development ability. 53

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE SKOLKOVO ECOSYSTEM

Being a part of the Skolkovo ecosystem, Skoltech also supported a number of visible Skoltech is involved in numerous activities events organized in the Skolkovo ecosystem. with the Sk International Gymnasium, Professor Fedorov, Professor Oseledets, the Sk Foundation, and Technopark. Professor Lakontsev, Professor Biamonte, Courses and lectures were delivered Professor Dylov, and Professor Koroteev to Skolkovo Gymnasium kids. participated in talks, round tables, and Professor Oseledets, Dr. Muravleva and plenary sessions at Open Innovations 2019. Talgat Daulbaev (PhD student) organized A computational thermostabilization of a course on Olympiad mathematics. GPCRs lecture was given by Professor Popov Professor Somov gave a talk titled at the Astra Zeneca Startup Challenge. “How to Become a Pro-eSports Player.” A lecture titled “Anomaly Detection and There is a newly organized e-sports team Failure Prediction” was given by Professor at the gymnasium requiring insights and Burnaev at the Skolkovo Robotics Forum. background on how to perform professionally Denis Stolyarov, Head of the Student in this domain. Professor Somov discussed Department participated as a speaker in the recent advances in the area and shared annual Technopark event titled “Job & the City.” recommendations on how to evaluate Skolkovo based companies hosted students the quality of the training process. during the summer industrial immersion – The Space Center held school hackathons GeoSteerTech, Microscopy and Analysis and lectures. Systems, Digital Petroleum, Boeing, The Open Learning Center developed Georezonans, Fidesys, TetraQuant, MiLaboratory. a special education program composed of Joint projects were held between the CREIs 20 thematic modules. Jointly with FabLab, and Skolkovo companies. The project for collections of 3D objects were made for the Antilatency was successfully completed by Evolution Biology program. The center also Professor Tsetserekou's team. The Intellectual organized a weekly Skoltech Day, when kids Space Robotics Lab provided technical have laboratory work on molecular biology, expertise to validate results of tracking system bioinformatics, zoology, and ecology. development. The R&D contract between Regular visits to CDISE, CHR, Fablab for CHR and Petroboost is ongoing – CHR the gymnasium kids were organized; kids performs a unique laboratory simulation of could gain knowledge as well as see how the technology of multistage thermal and the laboratories function. chemical impact of reservoir.

54

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH On September 25, 2019, Skoltech opened its doors for young guests – second grade kids of the Skolkovo International Gymnasium.

Professor Dmitry Koroteev takes part in the discussion of the “Open Innovations 2019” forum. 55

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE SERVING THE WIDER COMMUNITY

Skoltech @ Zaryadie park The agreement on collaboration signed in • Chronicles of Mars: a dead planet or a new 2018 was activated with numerous lectures on home for humanity? (Professor Ivanov) molecular, evolutionary biology, neurobiology, • Embraced by the Sun (Professor Podladchikova) AI and robotics, oil & gas industry, Mars • Digital Twins: a game-changing approach exploration expeditions, cybersports, IT, to innovation (Dr. Gusev) cryptography, and other topics: Skoltech Open Learning Center carried out • Artificial intelligence and sensors to benefit a molecular biology course for high school e-sports gaming, How to Become a Pro students that included lectures and hands-on eSports Player? (Professor Somov) activities on extracting the DNA of crickets, • Cryptography: the mathematics of mystery, tomatoes, mushrooms, and yeast and constructing Fermat’s Last Theorem: a centuries-long the molecule using dynamic 3D models. quest to solve the enigma (Dr. Zaytsev) Skoltech lectures @ Zaryadie project • Internet of Things – a supersmart kettle received 2000+ off-line visitors and 20, or a connected world? (Professor Lakontsev) 000+ online views. The Mayor of Moscow, • Big Data and their smaller varieties in several universities, educational organizations, network analysis, How the Internet knows foundations, and various projects including what do you need? (Professor Panov) Biomolecula, Guttenberg Kurilka, and • How much oil is left on Earth? (Professor Schrodinger’s Cat became Skoltech media Cheremisin) partners.

Letovo School for gifted students Three lectures were delivered – Mars organized in tracks Biology and Ecology: eco Chronicles: a Dead Planet or a New Mankind check-up of Letovo forest, IoT: microclimate in Habitat? (Professor Ivanov), Internet of Things Letovo classrooms, and engineering: how to (Professor Lakontsev), Eco monitoring, and launch a rocket & its saving system. whether it is worth knowing more about In November, the Memorandum on surrounding environment (Evgenia Lazareva Collaboration was signed between Skoltech, with Maria Yarina). Letovo School, the Skolkovo Gymnasium, and The STEM summer camp was successfully Skolkovo Technopark.

Online School of Novel Technological Competencies

The Open Learning Center, in collaboration Forms of Development of Education, participated with the Ministry of Science and Higher in designing the project concept. A program on Education, Innopractica, and Fund of New IoT was developed with Professor Lakontsev.

Sirius Educational Center Skoltech continued its activities for gifted an attendance of 25 Indian and 25 Russian kids of the Sirius center. CDISE professors schoolchildren. The kids worked in teams (Professor Nikolaev, Professor Oseledets), to explore five areas: earth remote sensing, researchers, and PhD students gave a number biology (genetics), materials science, IT, and of lectures. The Space Center supported the robotics. Each team completed a project 1st international Sirius project school Big aligned with the sustainable development 56 Challenges of Sustainable Development, with strategy set forth in the UN Declaration.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Letovo Research School. January, 2019.

The president of Skoltech and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksander Kuleshov took part in a press conference devoted to the launch of a training school at the “Correspondence School of New Technological Competences”. October 2019. 57

/01 FOCUS AND GOVERNANCE 58

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Academic & Technology Excellence /02 The Skoltech academic & technology framework is built on target domains which are broad areas of concentrated research, education, and innovation activities. The six domains are:

DATA SCIENCE & LIFE SCIENCES & CUTTING-EDGE ENGINEERING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HEALTH & ADVANCED MATERIALS

ENERGY PHOTONICS & QUANTUM ADVANCED EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES STUDIES

To date, Skoltech has nine Centers, which Programs of the Centers are subject contribute to the Institute’s mission by to international expert review with a goal implementing long-term programs on academic to assess achieved results, relevance and technology excellence and value generation to strategic goals, and elaborate in priority areas of science and technology recommendations on improving activities. development for Russia and the world. The review is scheduled for 2021.

60

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH

SHARED FabLab & FabLab Genomics Dr. Zgoda Dr. Cleanroom & Nanofabrication FACILITIES Dr. Denisov Dr. Biomaging & - Spectroscopy Spectrometry Dr. Shakhova Dr. Prof. Antonov Prof. Machine Shop Dr. Logacheva Dr. Data Storage & Data Storage Advanced MassAdvanced Professor Gorin Professor Vladimir Kalyaev Processing Cluster Processing Advanced Imaging Advanced Micro

CAS STUDIES ADVANCED Representation Representation theory Theory Gauge Field Singularity Theory Geometric Geometric String theory Conformal and Models Integrable Combinatorics & Symplectic Geometry Topology Statistical Physics Dynamical Systems Hyperbolic Geometry Professor Krichever Professor

• • • • • • • • • •

CPQM TECHNOLOGIES Professor Kueppers Professor Nanoplasmonics Condensates Semiconductors Atomic Clocks Biophotonics Light-Matter Interaction Nanomaterials & Metamaterials Nonlinear Optics Optical Communications Optical Signal Processing Circuits Photonic Integrated Bose-Einstein Polariton 2D Materials Superconductors & Quantum Coherent Systems PHOTONICS & QUANTUM & PHOTONICS

• • • • • • • • • • • • •

CEST Conversion ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROVOST Professor Abakumov Professor Energy Storage Conversion & Storage Regulation Materials Energy Electrochemical Electrochemical Solar Energy Smart Energy Grids Energy Markets & Computational Energy

Professor Stevenson Professor • • • • • •

SC CHR CDMM MATERIALS Professor Ivanov Professor CUTTING-EDGE Professor Akhatov Professor ENGILEERING, ADV. ADV. ENGILEERING, Professor Spasennykh Professor Digital Engineering Applications of Unconventional Reservoirs Simulations Gas Industry Strategic Thinking & Thinking Strategic Advanced Engineering Complex Systems Geomechanics Enhanced Oil Recovery Geophysics & Petro-Physics & Permafrost Gas Hydrates Advanced Reservoir Data Science in Oil & Technologies Composite Materials Coatings Polymer-based Additive Manufacturing & Functional Spray Thermal Digital Design & Manufacturing

• • • • • • • • • • • • •

CLS CNBR DIGITAL & HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCE LIFE Biology Bio-derived Products Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology Genetics & Advanced Statistics Genomics & Biotechnologies Farming Precision Bioinformatics Data-Intensive Bioactive / Agro-Science Biomed Developmental Molecular Computational Restorations Brain Quantitative Plant Breeding, Digital Agriculture & Professor Severinov Professor AGRICULTURE LAB AGRICULTURE

Professor Gentzbittel Professor Professor Kotelevtsev Professor • • • • • • • • • • • •

CDISE Technologies Artificial Computational Information Processing & & Processing Transmission Intelligence & ARTIFICIAL &

DATA SCIENCE DATA INTELLIGENCE Professor Fedorov Professor • • • (as of December 31, 2019) Skoltech academic & technology (as of December 31, framework 61

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Teaching & Learning

To achieve academic excellence Skoltech is delivering and continues to and execute graduate programs to the develop 10 MSc and 7 doctoral programs and highest international standards, Skoltech educates 1062 students. In 2019, Skoltech is working continuously on positioning graduated 252 MSc and PhD students. The the programs, educational process manage- number of issued diplomas has increased ment, quality of teaching, and supervision significantly since 2015 when the first cohort of students. graduated and now totals 643.

MSc PhD MSc program students PhD program students

Data Science 180 Computational and Data Science 117 Information Science and Technology 65 and Engineering Life Sciences 79 Life Sciences 64 Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 35 Materials Science and Engineering 56 Materials Science 39 Petroleum Engineering 43 Petroleum Engineering 57 Space and Engineering Systems 68 Engineering Systems 76 Energy Systems 28 Photonics and Quantum Materials 55 Physics 38 Mathematical and Theoretical Physics 21 Mathematics and Mechanics 41 Total 613 449

260

208

156 217

104 151

52 84 81 42 25 35 0 8 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

PhD graduates MSc graduates

MSc thesis defenses In June defense period, 217 MSc students of industrial companies and partner successfully defended thesis research institutions. Committee members commented projects in front of the state attestation on the very high level of thesis research committees. The committees comprised and defenses. The top ten thesis research 90 high level experts, of whom 53 were projects of the year 2019 were nominated 62 external members, including representatives by the committees.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Research MSc Program Student Thesis Title Advisor

Multiphase Flow Models for Oilfield Professor Petroleum Engineering Evgenii Kanin Services Technologies Osiptsov

Combined Physics-based and Data- Advanced Manufacturing Driven Modeling of a Gas Engine Professor Sergei Belov Technologies Power Plant for its Prescriptive Uzhinsky Maintenance

Aleksandr Distributed Solutions for Power Professor Energy Systems Malakhov Systems State Problems Gryazina

Oxide Materials with Tetrahedrally Valery Coordinated d-metal as Bifunctional Professor Materials Science Okatenko Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Abakumov Oxygen Evolution Reactions

Information Science and Vladislav Efficient Methods for Elliptic Professor Technology Pimanov Problems in Heterogeneous Media Oseledets

Aliaksandra Professor Data Science Textured Neural Avatar Shysheya Lempitsky

Development of Mission Execution Space and Engineering Evgenii Professor System for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safronov Tsetserukou Systems

Vasilii Schieder Bialgebra and the Professor Mathematical Physics Krylov Geometric Satake Correspondence Finkelberg

Professor David Absolute Poisson Ratio of 2D Burmistrov (HSE), Theoretical Physics Saykin Crystalline Membranes co-advisor Professor Skvortsov

Photonics and Quantum Ilia Optical Properties of Hybridized Professor Materials Fradkin Resonances in Plasmonic Lattices Gippius

Impact of Somatic Mutations Svetlana Professor Disrupting RNA Structure on Life Sciences Kalmykova Pervouchine Alternative Splicing

Skoltech is working continuously to system based on unified criteria, and improve MSc thesis defense procedures the pilot implementation of an extended and increase transparency. The state grading scale. The majority of graduates attestation committees commented were satisfied with their thesis project positively on the following aspects: experience, including research, supervision, general organization, new assessment facilities, and support services.

63

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE PhD defenses and PhD degree During the last three years, 45 students have been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in accordance with high international and national standards.

21

21 17

7

0 2017 2018 2019

In 2019, 21 students successfully The Life Sciences and Computational and defended their PhD theses. For the first time, Data Science and Engineering programs once Physics doctoral program graduated students, again demonstrated a high percentage and all of them successfully defended. of defenses.

5 Physics 5

Petroleum Engineering 2 1 Materials Science 6 and Engineering 1 Mathematics and Mechanics

Life Sciences 7 6

Engineering Systems 10 3 Computational and Data 5 Science and Engineering 5

PhD graduates PhD degrees

64 010

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Dr. Anja Tekic becomes the first PhD graduate of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on September 24, 2019.

Dr. Vsevolod Iakovlev, PhD program Physics (Supervisors: Professor Nasibulin, Skoltech; Professor Kauppinen (Aalto University, Finland). Joint PhD defenses. October 2019. 65

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE To intensify international collaboration with awarding double degrees. Partners include leading universities, Skoltech is implementing Aalto University (Finland), Curtin University joint doctoral programs. Based on a customized (Australia), Sorbonne (France), the University cotutelle agreement for each student, the of Paris (France), and the Universite Grenoble partners are providing co-supervision, sharing Alps (France). For the first time, four joint PhD financial support and research facilities, defenses were organized, and double degrees as well as organizing joint defenses and were awarded under cotutelle agreements.

Double PhD student Supervisors degrees PhD Program Thesis title

Professor Nasibulin, Enhancing optoelectronic Alexey Skoltech, Skoltech / Professor Physics performance of randomly oriented Tsapenko Aalto Kauppinen, Aalto single-walled carbon nanotube films

Professor Nasibulin, Advanced synthesis of single-walled Vsevolod Skoltech, Skoltech / Professor Physics carbon nanotubes films by aerosol Iakovlev Aalto Kauppinen, Aalto method for electro-optical application

Professor Severinov, Skoltech / Assistant Sofia Skoltech, Life Natural diversity of CRISPR Professor Krupovic, Medvedeva Sorbonne Sciences spacers Institute Pasteur, France

Professor Severinov, Skoltech / Professor Skoltech, The CRISPR-Cas system of human Anna Life Soutourina, University University pathogen Clostridium difficile: Maikova Sciences of Paris-Saclay, of Paris function and regulation France

International accreditation

To verify the quality of Skoltech graduate to the organization and management of the programs in compliance with the Standards doctorate, as well as for the supervision and and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in training of the doctoral students.” The Life the European Higher Education Area, Sciences program is the first PhD program in international accreditation was initiated. Russia accredited in accordance with high In March 2019, international accreditation international standards. of the Life Sciences PhD program was The next two PhD programs, Materials successfully completed by the independent Science and Engineering and the Computational accreditation committee of the French High and Data Science and Engineering, conducted Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher required self-assessment procedures and Education (HCERES). As mentioned in the were evaluated onsite by the expert HCERES HCERES evaluation report, “the establishment committees in fall 2019. The final decision of the Skoltech Life Sciences PhD program of the French High Council for Evaluation during the first five years of its existence has of Research and Higher Education about 66 resulted in convincing results with respect international accreditation is expected in 2020.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Teaching excellence

The Skoltech Teaching Excellence Award granted to Professor Nasibulin. In addition, has been created to recognize and reward four professors were awarded: Professor efforts of teaching faculty who exemplify Podladchikova (Best in Lecturing), Professor commitment to enhancing learning experience Abakumov (Best in Research Supervising), of Skoltech students. In 2019, the annual Professor Tekic (Best in Mentoring), and reward “Best Professor of the Year” was Professor Oseledets (Best in Career Training).

In 2019, the annual reward “Best Professor of the Year” was granted to Professor Nasibulin. An additional four professors received awards: Professor Podladchikova, Professor Abakumov, Professor Tekic, and Professor Oseledets. 67

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Programs development

The uniqueness of Skoltech educational • Entrepreneurship and Innovation stream programs is based on integration of a broad was broadened to 15 courses; the variety of courses with advanced training in number of courses focused on soft entrepreneurship and innovation and deep skills development was also increased immersion of students into industrial and to 15. research projects. The key results in the • The new course, Teachers Toolkit for programs’ development in 2019 are: Higher Education, for PhD students • The range of courses was expanded was developed in collaboration with significantly with almost 250 curriculum the Moscow Pedagogical State elements for 2019/2020 academic year. University.

2017 2018 2019

Courses in the catalog (total) 170 207 250

Entrepreneurship and Innovation courses 8 10 15

Soft skills courses 7 13 15

The Skoltech online course catalog9 interdisciplinary learning, help students to contains the full syllabi of all courses and broaden horizons, go beyond profession, is publicly accessible for all internal and gain knowledge for career development, and external customers. Information about Skoltech boost soft skills. The Skoltech community education10 is in high demand, as confirmed and invited instructors were encouraged to by the number of visits, which increased create and deliver 37 courses, for instance, twofold to 382,000 throughout the year. Introduction to Social Studies of Science and Examples of putting educational initiatives Technology (Professor Kharkhordin, European into practice include unique Skoltech courses University, Russia), Science in Contemporary and activities like Innovation Workshop, Art (Professor Shpanin, Rutgers University, Independent Studies Period, Industrial USA), Privacy and Data Protection (Professor Immersion, and the academic mobility program. Dmitrik, MSU), Modernism in Literature Skoltech is keeping its tradition to start of the 20th century (Professor Zhuk, Far MSc studies with Innovation Workshop Eastern Federal University, Russia), Science led by the Center of Entrepreneurship and Communication Crash Course (Professor Innovation, which is an intense, one-month Prodanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, “boot camp” to foster innovators. Students' Professor Tekic), Roots of Scientific English feedback is very positive because of the (A. White, Skoltech student), Industry Career “spirit of active learning and innovation,” Building – How to Get a Job of Your Dream “atmosphere of creativity,” and “team work” (Industry Liason Office), From Idea to Start- under the supervision of “mentors with great up (Professor Shavit, Ben-Gurion University experience and advice.” of the Naglev, Israel, Professor Nikolaev), The Independent Studies Period is a Disrupt Skoltech Hackathon (Professor Tekic), unique part of MSc studies. ISP focuses on and others.

9 https://www.skoltech.ru/en/education/course-catalog/ 68 10 https://www.skoltech.ru/en/education/

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Industrial Immersion is an essential Academic mobility is a special facet of part of MSc studies performed during the Skoltech education in the Russian context – summer term. The aim of the immersion is each student has the opportunity to conduct to familiarize students with the demands of research in a partner host university or to industry and to prepare graduates for job participate in international conferences or placement. More than 200 individual and summer schools. A large number of the 349 group student projects were co-supervised MSc and PhD students were supported for by Skoltech faculty and representatives of academic mobility, including 137 long-term 137 high-tech Russian and international trips for research. companies.

ISP – Independent Studies Period. 69

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 70 ISP – Independent Studies Period.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Digital Learning Commons

To stay relevant in the digitalization era, Skoltech library is focusing mainly on digital resources. The usage of on-line resources at Skoltech has been growing exponentially since 2015, and is now reaching the level of the world’s leading universities.

240,000 240000

110,000

50,000

8,400 2,600 0 2017 2018 2018 2018 2019

Students have access to more than range of scientific literature are covered by 30 different products, which include the Springer e-books collection (71,000 books) world’s leading scientific databases such as provided by the Russian Foundation for Basic Science Direct, Springer or IEEE, and four Research grant. In 2019, Skoltech received bibliographic databases (Scopus, Web of access to the Elsevier Freedom Collection, Science, etc.). The basic needs for a broader which added 4900 books to the e-library.

2017 2018 2019

Print books collection 700 930 1 100

Skoltech e-books 220 370 420

Elsevier Freedom Collection - - 4 900

Springer e-books 70 000 85 000 71 000

Full-text documents downloads from e-library databases 50 000 110 000 240 000

71

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Research

Skoltech continues to rise rapidly in infrastructure and our aggressive pursuit of its research visibility with increasing research funding and alignment of strategic momentum. Significant strides have target domains. Research in these prioritized been made in 2019 to guide and support target domains link to complex problems that our research enterprise, including the demand innovative solutions to both national development of state-of-art research priorities and to global grand challenges.

KEITH STEVENSON, Provost: "Skoltech has had many successes, especially with regards to publications and research prominence. The Institute has been able to recruit world class faculty that are focused on solving global problems. They are publishing their work in highly visible journals with a high impact and citation index. The Nature Index is a special index that is defined by a specific set of criteria; it is a young ranking index, but some of the universities in it are nearly 50 years old. If you were to normalize by the size and the age of Skoltech, our ranking would be far higher than 97, based on the number of years as well as the 72 faculty that contribute to the index."

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Select papers published in Nature Index journals are presented below:

Authors Title Journal CiteScore

You, L., Ma, Artamonova, D., Wang, M., Structure Studies of the CRISPR- Liu, L., Xiang, H., Severinov, K., Zhang, Csm Complex Reveal Mechanism Cell 26.41 X., Wang, Y. of Co-transcriptional Interference

Seplyarskiy, V.B., Akkuratov, E.E., Error-prone bypass of DNA lesions Akkuratova, N., Andrianova, M.A., during lagging-strand replication is Nature 20.33 Nikolaev, S.I., Bazykin, G.A., Adameyko, a common source of germline and Genetics I., Sunyaev, S.R. cancer mutations

Zasedatelev, A.V., Baranikov, A.V., A room-temperature organic Nature Urbonas, D., Scafirimuto, F., Scherf, U., 20.13 polariton transistor Photonics Stöferle, T., Mahrt, R.F., Lagoudakis, P.G.

Tyshkovskiy, A., Bozaykut, P., Identification and Application of Gene Borodinova, A.A., Gerashchenko, M.V., Cell Expression Signatures Associated 16.26 Ables, G.P., Garratt, M., Khaitovich, P., Metabolism with Lifespan Extension Clish, C.B., Miller, R.A., Gladyshev, V.N.

Gladush, Y., Mkrtchyan, A.A., Kopylova, D.S., Ivanenko, A., Nyushkov, B., Ionic Liquid Gated Carbon Nanotube Kobtsev, S., Kokhanovskiy, A., Khegai, Saturable Absorber for Switchable Nano Letters 12.43 A., Melkumov, M., Burdanova, M., Pulse Generation Staniforth, M., Lloyd-Hughes, J., Nasibulin, A.G.

Salke, N.P., Davari Esfahani, M.M., Synthesis of clathrate cerium Zhang, Y., Kruglov, I.A., Zhou, J., Wang, Nature superhydride CeH9 at 80-100 GPa 12.18 Y., Greenberg, E., Prakapenka, V.B., Liu, Communications with atomic hydrogen sublattice J., Oganov, A.R., Lin, J.-F.

Intense attosecond pulses carrying Nature Wang, J.W., Zepf, M., Rykovanov, S.G. orbital angular momentum using laser 12.18 Communications plasma interactions

Han, H., Wei, Z., Filatov, A.S., Carozza, Three to tango requires a site- J.C., Alkan, M., Rogachev, A.Y., specific substitution: Hetero: tri Chemical 9.80 Shevtsov, A., Abakumov, A.M., Pak, C., metallic molecular precursors for Science Shatruk, M., Chen, Y.-S., Dikarev, E.V. high-voltage rechargeable batteries

High-Energy and High-Power- Journal of Obrezkov, F.A., Ramezankhani, V., Density Potassium Ion Batteries Physical Zhidkov, I., Traven, V.F., Kurmaev, E.Z., 7.24 Using Dihydrophenazine-Based Chemistry Stevenson, K.J., Troshin, P.A. Polymer as Active Cathode Material Letters

Journal of Cluster integrable systems and spin Marshakov, A., Semenyakin, M. High Energy 5.01 chains Physics

Gas Hydrates in Permafrost: Journal of Yang, J., Hassanpouryouzband, A., Distinctive Effect of Gas Hydrates Geophysical Tohidi, B., Chuvilin, E., Bukhanov, B., and Ice on the Geomechanical 4.31 Research: Istomin, V., Cheremisin, A. Properties of Simulated Hydrate- Solid Earth Bearing Permafrost Sediments 73

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Students also demonstrated academic excellence. Below are examples of papers published in high profile journals, A*rank conferences:

Aliaksandra Shysheya Shysheya, A., Zakharov, E., Aliev, K., Bashirov R., Burkov, E., and Artem Sevastopolskiy Iskakov, K., Ivakhnenko, A., Malkov, Y., Pasechnik, I., Ulyanov, (advisor Professor Lempitsky) D., Vakhitov, A., Lempitsky, V. Textured Neural Avatars, The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 9, pp. 2387-2397 (2019)

Grigorev, A., Sevastopolsky, A., Vakhitov, A., Lempitsky, V. Coordinate-Based Texture Inpainting for Pose-Guided Human Image Generation, The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 12135-12144 (2019)

Valerii Likhosherstov Likhosherstov, V., Maximov, Y., Chertkov M. Inference and (advisor Professor Chertkov) Sampling of K33-free Ising Models, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (2019)

Andrei Znobishchev Gruenwald, J., Znobishchev, A., Kapeller, C., Kamada, K., (advisor Professor Cichocki) Scharinger, J., & Guger, C. Time-variant linear discriminant analysis improves hand gesture and finger movement decoding for invasive brain-computer interfaces, Frontiers in Neuroscience (2019)

Daria Burova and Anna Iarchuk Burova, D., Shakhova, I., Morozova, P., Iarchuk, A., Drozhzhin, (advisor Professor Abakumov) O. A., Rozova, M. G. Abakumov, A. M. The rapid microwave- assisted hydrothermal synthesis of NASICON-structured Na3V2O2: X(PO4)2F3-2 x (0 < x ≤ 1) cathode materials for na-ion batteries, RSC Advances, 9(34), pp.19429-19440 (2019)

Iarchuk, A. R., Nikitina, V. A., Karpushkin, E. A., Sergeyev, V. G., Antipov, E. V., Stevenson, K. J., & Abakumov, A. M. Influence of carbon coating on intercalation kinetics and transport properties of LiFePO4, ChemElectroChem, 6(19), pp. 5090-5100 (2019)

Sofia Kasatskaya Memory CD4+T cells are generated in the human fetal (advisor Professor Chudakov) intestine. Li N, van Unen V, Abdelaal T, Guo N, Kasatskaya S, Ladell K, McLaren J, Egorov E, Izraelson M, Chuva de Sousa Lopes S, Höllt T, Britanova O, Eggermont J, de Miranda N, Chudakov D, Price D, Lelieveldt B, Koning F Nat Immunol. 21.01.2019;20(3):301-312.

Anna Shiryaeva, Yana Fedorova Detection of spacer precursors formed in vivo during primed (advisor Professor Severinov) CRISPR adaptation. Shiriaeva A, Savitskaya E, Datsenko K, Vvedenskaya I, Fedorova I, Morozova N, Metlitskaya A, Sabantsev A, Nickels B, Severinov K, Semenova E Nat Commun. 10.10.2019; 10(1).

CHRISTOPH BORCHERS, Head of the Laboratory of Omics Technologies and Big Data for Personal Medicine and Health (CDISE): «The Laboratory of Omics Technologies and Big Data for Personalized Medicine and Health at Skoltech, established in 2019, is focused on quantitation of the protein expression, modification status and mutation rate in biological/clinical samples. One emphasis is on the development of the “Next Generation Proteomics”, making protein analysis more sensitive, multiplex and faster allowing for more applicable and compre- 74 hensive analysis which is significant for personalized medicine and health assessment».

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Grant support

In 2019, Skoltech stated 72% of growth in Megagrant awarded to Professor Cichocki annual grant funding received from national (deep learning and tensor networks) has been and international foundations. The top awards positively evaluated and extended for the of the year include: next two years (2020-2021) by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Over the • Professor Borchers, Professor Nikolaev – last three years, the Laboratory of Tensor Megagrant for setting up the Laboratory Networks and Deep Learning for Applications of Omics Technologies and Big Data for in Data Mining published more than 30 Personalized Medicine and Health. peer-review papers in high impact factor Q1/ • Professor Stevenson, Professor Bischi, and Q2 Journals and more than 10 works have Mikhail Pugach – Horizon 2020 grant for been presented in high ranking A/A* AI the project “Computer aided design for next Conferences (ICML, NIPS, CVPR, AAAI). generation flow batteries (CompBat).” • RFBR grants for projects in partnership PhD students were active in attracting grants; with international research institutions – below are some examples of funding awards:

Israel – Professor Zatsepin (A novel strategy • Anastasia Fursova (advisor Professor for pre-mRNA splicing correction by site- Nikolaev) – Development and testing of the specific pre-miRNA recruitment). mechanical components of a miniaturized high-precision multi-electrode harmonic Norway – Professor Chuvilin (Experimental kingdon trap produced by 3D printing, modeling of influence of geothermal • Stanislav Kruglik (advisor Dr. Kabatyansky) – conditions and sediment composition on Confidentiality in distributed information gas hydrate formation and distribution in storage systems, permafrost areas). • Ekaterina Sosnina (advisor Professor Fedorov) – Using multitasking training methods to Taiwan – Dr. Yudin (Microscopic theory of search for new promising drug candidates, spin optical phenomena in low-dimensional • Evgeny Ponomarev (advisor Professor magnetic materials). Oseledets) – Acceleration, compression and improvement of neural network algorithms France – Professor Shlosman (Mathematics for classification and recognition of objects of modern mathematical physics). in images and video stream, • Alexey Uvarov (advisor Dr. Yudin) – Germany – Professor Shapeev (Machine Effectiveness of variational quantum learning the thermodynamics of complex eigensolver in minimizing quantum materials with ab initio accuracy), Professor Hamiltonians, Lagoudakis (Hybrid polariton condensates • Albert Matveev (advisor Professor Burnaev) – and transistors based on organic and Machine learning methods for surface inorganic semiconductors), Professor reconstruction by constructing local Akhatov (Enabling prediction of ice loads on direction fields on discrete representations structures in the Arctic (ICELOAD). of surfaces of three-dimensional objects.

75

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Summary Data

Publication output Top-10 countries for collaboration (publications)

1000 USA UK 800 Germany China 600 France Japan Finland 400 Belguim Poland 200 Canada Spain 0 2017 2018 2019 050100 150200 250

Q1 (top 25%) Q2 Q3 Q4 Data as of Feb 27, 2020 (SciVal)

Grants projects per PI Grant activity

Postdocs & 270 researchers Postdocs & 270 36% researchers 189 36% 180 189 180 115 115 90 75 49 51 90 75 Faculty 19 49 51 64% Faculty 0 19 2017 2018 2019 64% 0 2017 2018 2019 Applications submitted Applications awarded Applications submitted Applications awarded 76

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Grant funding per source (mln RUB) Grants funding 2019 (mln RUB)

CDISE 2019 CEST CLS CAS 2018 CPQM CHR CEI 2017 CNBR SC CDMM 0100 200300 400 500 020406080100 120140 160 RSF RFBR Ministry subsidies Foreign grants

Grant funding 2019 per area

Basic research Earth Sciences for medicine 4% 8 %

Engineering Chemistry & Sciences 8% Materials Science Physics & 29% Space Sciences 15%

Mathematics, Computer Science & Biology & Systems Science Life Sciences 18% 18%

77

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Academic & technology conferences

International School on Machine Learning Summer The IFIP 16th International Hybrid, Organic and School A large-scale Conference on Product Perovskite Photovoltaics international event organized Lifecycle Management The School gathered leading by Professor Burnaev, 500+ This annual event that has scientists working in the field participants from leading been going since 2003, of photovoltaics (conversion industrial companies and facilitating networking of solar energy into electricity) universities in Moscow, between academia from across the world. 21 presentations, 2 round and industry. Ninety The advisory board was tables, poster session. MLSS participants represented comprised of members from was one of the largest ML 20 different countries, the UK, Germany, United events in Russia in terms and presented 45 papers States, Italy, Israel, Spain, of number and the level of representing 57 different Japan, Germany, Russia, speakers and participants research facilities. Netherlands, and Singapore. from different countries.

5th International Conference International Skoltech The 3rd Summer School on on Matrix Methods Summer School on Nonlinear Photonics in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics The event brought Applications Moscow together the world’s The conference was held in Mini courses from top-class leading experts to discuss collaboration with Marchuk mathematicians – Professor topics of laser science Institute of Numerical Math- Okounkov (Columbia and technology, fiber ematics, RAS, and Huawei University and Skoltech), optics, photonic materials Technologies CO. Ltd. Top Professor Bezroukavnikov and meta-materials, researchers from Russia, (MIT), Professor Nekrasov telecommunications, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, (Stony Brook), Professor multi-photon bio-imaging, UK, USA gathered to pres- Braverman (Skoltech), nonlinear photonics for ent the most recent develop- Professor Etingof quantum technologies, ments and results in matrix (MIT). Most of the 100 sensing, spectroscopy, methods, numerical linear participants were from solitons, mid-IR algebra, tensor decomposi- Russian & intl. universities. technology. Up to 40 tions in both fundamental early stage researchers and applied scopes. participated.

ANDREI OKOUNKOV, Fields Medal Laureate (2006): «In Summer of 2019, Skoltech launched its international summer school in mathematical physics, and already the first edition of this school attracted significant international attention. Over 100 scientists from more than 20 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, China, Great Britain, France, Russia, etc.) participated in it, fostering important interaction between the Russian and the global mathematical physics communities. Skoltech, where special attention is paid to development development of mathematical sciences, is ready to continue to be the center of attraction of world mathematics: The Second International Summer School in 78 Mathematical Physics will be held here from June 15 to June 26, 2020».

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech’s Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS), drew 800+ participants from 40 countries across the world. 79

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE The IFIP 16th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, at Skoltech’s new campus. A total of 90 participants from 20 different countries, presenting 45 papers, and representing 57 80 different research facilities.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH The 1st International School on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics. Осtober 2019.

The Third Summer School on Nonlinear Photonics. August 2019. 81

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE RESEARCH FACILITIES

With six state-of-the art facilities operating was finalized. The facility will serve as a at interim and the new campus, 2019 was technological platform for the development marked with wide support for the Institute’s of integrated photonics solutions for optically own research across all target domains enriched systems of the generation 2025- as well as a broad range of R&D services 2035 such as IT, sensor, and quantum provided to external academic and industrial systems where high-speed microelectronic partners, including international ones. The components will be replaced by purely shared facilities had more than 50 external photonic or hybrid solutions. The application contracts (College de France, Finance and areas of these systems are vital for the digital Investment Corporation Alel (Nordgold), A.N. transformation of society and include IT and Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution sensorics, telecommunications, health and of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Semat medicine, security, and others. LLC, Sputnix LLC, and others). The CREIs infrastructure was further Two new facilities were established. developed. CEST significantly expanded Advanced Mass Spectrometry (Head Dr. research facilities by completing design and Zgoda) provides a broad range of services in construction of a new laboratory for material mass-spectrometric research. It is equipped science, redox flow batteries and educational with a wide range of mass-spectrometers activities in electrochemistry (TPOC4, ~130 covering all needs in the field of proteomics and m2), the laboratory for battery cell prototyping metabolomics: Bruker maXis impact, Bruker (~70 m2, TPOC3) and the laboratory for timsTOF, Bruker rapifleX MALDI, ThermoFisher pilot production of LiFePO4 cathode materials Q Exactive and others. Together with state (~35 m2, TPOC3). CHR maintains running of the art mass-spectrometric equipment, 24/7 a state-of-the-art laboratory with sample preparation, and bioinformatics a world-class equipment for development, support, the facility will comply with the whole testing and validation of new technologies for experimental cycle for research. The Data exploration and production of unconventional Storage and Processing Cluster (Interim Head and hard to recover hydrocarbon reserves. Dr. Denisov) was established on the basis of A number of unique experimental setups high-performance computing platform Arkuda were installed and commissioned in 2019 for (Lenovo) and a parallel file storage system. the study of hydrocarbons of unconventional The cluster provides computational resources reservoirs, including a new high-pressure and for scientific research conducted by Skoltech high-temperature core flooding system with laboratories, external academic and industrial X-ray control for development of chemical, gas partners. The facility supports users in terms and hybrid methods of enhanced recovery, of utilization of supercomputing resources, and other experimental units. The Teaching resource intensive software, organization of data Laboratory (CLS) in Skolkovo Technopark processing, analysis as well as visualization. became fully operational. It is the basis for Based on the cluster, infrastructure for several courses and also allows all students, processing and storing data from other shared irrespective of their final specialization in facilities was deployed. bioinformatics or experimental research, The concept of a micro- and to perform individual research on laboratory nanofabrication cleanroom shared facility equipment.

82

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Transmission electron microscope "Titan Themis Z G3". 83

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 84 Advanced Imaging Core Facility.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH FabLab and Machine Shop. 85

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 86 Center for Life Sciences. Teaching Laboratory.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Laboratory of the Center for Energy Science and Technology. 87

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Integrating Innovation

Innovation Workshop

More than 290 students participated in mentors’ expertise allowed students to learn the Innovation Workshop of 2019 gaining and experience how to work with different exposure to the entrepreneurial journey. Over types of stakeholders and professional profiles. four weeks, students developed tangible The mentors provided further guidance and product and service prototypes that could engaged their professional network after the eventually become commercially viable. The Innovation Workshop to support some of the strong background of the intake allowed for the project teams. production of quality outputs. Forty mentors The main result is that out of the approximately (85% of them international) provided guidance 50 teams that started their projects during the and constructive feedback, boosting the Innovation Workshop, more than 10% continued quality of their projects. A wide variety of the working on their projects during the year.

IW 2019 Projects Description Status Team Achievement

Sensor for remotely tracking Prototype 3 MSc students Waiting Move.Now rehabilitation progress knee improvement + CEI Team customers11 surgery. stage

Prototype Net that uses nanotubes to detect 3 MSc students Waiting SmartNet improvement when a player touches it. + CEI Team customers stage

Smart cage for small pets to Prototype Concept 6 MSc students 12 Smart Cage monitor pet’s wellbeing when improvement validated by + CEI Team owner is away from home. stage market

Device that attached to an electric Prototype Concept Electric Failure wire monitors electric consumption 2 MSc students improvement validated by Monitor to conduct predictive maintenance + CEI Team stage market before failure happens.

Device that detects apple’s Prototype Concept 2 MSc students Apple Sorting quality and sorts them through improvement validated by + CEI Team image recognition. stage market

Cupboards that allow tracking Prototype Concept Smart 2 MSc students of check-in and check-out improvement validated by Cupboards + CEI Team of objects. stage market

Starting from a genetic test, Concept Life Service 3 MSc students service that designs customized validated by Extension design stage + CEI Team routines to extend users’ life. market

Device that detects obstacles Prototype Concept Blind people 2 MSc students and assists blind people by using improvement validated by smart-guide + CEI Team ultrasound sensors. stage market

11 Customers that expect to buy/start using the product once it meets the specifications they required. 12 Prototypes were displayed to potential customers who expressed willingness to buy them and provided feedback 88 to finish the development of the product.

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Innovation Workshop. September 2019. 89

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Translational Research Program

The projects supported within the Call with Skolkovo residency. Patents applications 2018-2019 were successfully conducted in are planned for submission. Negotiations are accordance with the plans of development. All held with high-tech companies and investors projects resulted in creating new enterprises for attracting external funding.

PI Project title

Professor Abakumov Development of potassium-ion batteries

Pultrusion structural profiles based on fibre reinforced thermoplastic Professor Akhatov pre-impregnated materials

Professor Gelfand Metagenomic approach for oil and gas industry

Platform for Detection of Human Health Markers at Point-of-Care Professor Gorin (РОС): An Interface of the Physical and Life Sciences

Professor Nasibulin Strong coaxial filament for 3D printing

Professor Somov G(ame)-psycho

Professor Fedorov Syntelly – Computer aided organic synthesis

The new wave of STRIP projects was selected Thermo Fisher Scientific, RVC, Imperial College by reviewers representing national and interna- of London, Tampere University of Technology, tional companies and universities – 3M, Google, Carnegie Mellon University, European Space Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Siemens, NASA, L-3 Com- Agency, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and munications Inc., Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Technology, the University of Michigan.

PI Project title

Professor Gelfand Platform for Microbial-induced Allergen-specific Tolerance (MAT)

Professor Abakumov Prototyping sodium-ion battery

Solar Roof: The Application of Organic Solar Cells for Building- Professor Troshin Integrated Photovoltaics

VeinCV: (10X Less Expensive) Subcutaneous Vein Scanner aims to Professor Dylov make a new vein visualization technology using near-infrared light

Digital Platform for GPCR-specific drug discovery aimed to develop Professor Popov a digital platform for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)-specific screening of drug candidates

Professor Akhatov Thermoplastic Composite Tape

Microfluidics as a NextGen Technology for Experimental Studies in Professor Cheremisin Oil and Gas Industry

Emmotion: Electric drive unit for a wheelchair with universal mounting Professor Uzhinsky 90 system

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech Translational Research and Innovation Program conference. August 2019. The conference consisted of an array of 20+ presentations before a panel of judges and industry experts. 91

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE Patent activity

In 2019, Skoltech academic personnel of single-layer carbon nanotubes by submitted 37 patent applications; the majority chirality (CPQM). of applications are for inventions. The scope • Nano- and microparticles for isolation of of the applications is presented by a variety of specific exosome subpopulations and their CREIs specializations. Select examples: analysis (CPQM). • A procedure for the preparation and • Methods of data processing for construction assembly of a battery utilizing the transition of neural-network based segmentation metal hexacyanometallates as the cathode, models for remote sensing images with hard carbon as the anode and anhydrous boundary-aware lose (CDISE). electrolyte for potassium-ion batteries • A system for compression of deep neural (CEST). networks using interactive tensor • A method to produce homogeneous carbon approximation (CDISE). coating with controlled thickness on the • A method of designing the surface of surface of cathode materials for metal ion bat- the orbital ion trap electrode (CDISE). teries, and cathodes coated therewith (CEST). • Tools and methods for compound • A system and method of automated identification using mass spectrometer electrocardiogram analysis and (CDISE). interpretation (SC). • A database of pig genotypes (CNBR). • A database of lipid composition of adipose As of the end of the year, Skoltech IP is and muscle tissue of pig meat (CNBR). comprised of 28 patents and 21 authorship • A method of chromatographic separation certificates granted (cumulative).

92

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Summary Data

Patent applications per type Patents application per CREI

CDISE 40 Inventions, CPQM Utility models Software, 35 57% CLS Databases, 30 Trademarks 25 SC 43% 20 CEST

15 CHR 10 CNBR

5 CDMM 0 2017 2018 2019 0 246810 12 14 16

Patents (Inventions, utility models) Copyright (software, databases) and trademarks Know-How PCT and foreign

IP granted per type (cumulative)

40 Inventions, Utility models Software, 35 57% Databases, 30 Trademarks 25 43% 20

15 10

5 0 2017 2018 2019

Patents (Inventions, utility models) Copyright (software, databases) and trademarks Know-How 93 PCT and foreign

/02 ACADEMIC & TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE 94

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Value Generation /03 Industry Funded Research

Compared to 2018, Skoltech annual wireless communications, robotics, funding under R&D contracts showed 34% and other digital technologies, provide growth – the amount of work performed educational services to Sberbank totaled to 1,1 bln RUB. The CREIs employees and design new trajectories conducted 155 R&D projects under contracts for Skoltech students (Dr. Zaytsev is the with national and international companies, head). Six projects have begun. such as Sberbank, Huawei, Gazprom Neft, Philips, VNIPIneft, Lukoil, Samsung, Bayer • The TOPCON contract for the joint AG, Alibaba, and others. New contracts have laboratory was launched. That is been signed for more than 1,3 bln RUB for a fully commercial project with a USA the period of 2020-2023. navigation solutions provider in the field of autonomous vehicles for construction Select projects include: and agriculture industries and has great potential for synergy with other Skoltech • Huawei (both Russia based and Chinese research directions. In the framework of joint branches) was a key industrial partner laboratory collaboration, a new course for of CDISE. The Skoltech-Huawei Advanced GNSS applications was developed, Innovation Joint Lab, with Professor and four PhD positions sponsored with Frolov as the head, started 12 new company funds were opened. projects in dense pose, novel methods for (semi) automatic search of new NN • The Research Training Center of Plant architectures, automatic hyperparameters’ Biotechnologies in partnership with Bayer tuning; low-level image processing AG (320 mln RUB for 2020-2023) has (camera ISP pipeline +Image restoration been established. The partners of the +enhancement). Center are the Russian Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, the Federal Research • The Joint Applied Research Laboratory with Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Sberbank (CDISE) was established to the Siberian Branch of the Russian carry out research projects in artificial Academy of Sciences (ICG SB RAS), intelligence and machine learning and Belgorod State Agricultural University technologies, Internet of Things and named after V. Gorin.

Results on ongoing projects

• A technology for predicting a The technology has been adopted and multidimensional time series with a tested in Alibaba and Huawei solutions hierarchical structure of dependences (Professor Burnaev). between components has been developed and adapted to solve the problem of • A quantum circuits simulator that demand forecasting. The technology is allows for assessing the achievement based on machine learning methods of quantum supremacy has been and automatic approaches to features implemented on classical computers: generation based on topological data if circuits can be modeled on modern analysis. Using this technology, it is supercomputers, more complex quantum possible to automate the selection of the circuits need to be implemented on model type for each of the time series physical devices. New decentralized components and speed up the construction resource scheduling algorithms have been 96 of models for a large number of time series. developed and showed potential benefits in

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH case of coordination. The key indicators for from MRI Using Improved DualGAN was service quality in large-scale experiments developed. For cancer patients, the latter has been obtained under the joint project modality is typically used to analyze the with Huawei on building a distributed anatomy of an organ, while the former scheduler prototype in wireless networks is needed to determine correct dose (Professor Oseledets, Dr. Ovchinnikov, Dr. of required radiation therapy. The new Schutsky). invention of MRI-CT translation holds the potential to eliminate the need for the • The Applied Information Theory Group patients to undergo both examinations and (Professor Frolov) has successfully to be clinically accepted as a new tool for finished the "Deep Neural Network Based radiotherapy planning. Decoder Design for 5G LDPC Codes" Huawei cooperation project with an • A model for predicting hidden interactions "Excellent" evaluation result. The project in the network of bank clients was is aimed at improving the performance developed which outperforms the existing of 5G short LDPC codes. As soon as approaches to link prediction and also traditional Min-Sum or Sum-Product allows to improve the quality of credit algorithms show poor performance on scoring by more than 1 percentage point short LDPC codes, the deep neural which is very significant for the bank network based (DNN) approach has (Professor Panov). been suggested to tackle this problem. Authors have improved the performance • The Center of Excellence CoBrain-Analytics of the decoder and suggested a method developed an algorithm by order of to reduce the number of trainable Brainlab AG (Germany), one of the parameters in the known DNN based world leaders in production of software decoding architectures. They have also and equipment for medicine. The CoE constructed a scheme that allows reusing integrated into the CoBrain-Analytics optimal weights in many decoders platform a number of medical AI solutions varying by code length and rate (called of their partners – Third Opinion, Care rate and length adaptation, respectively). Mentor AI, Ftizisbiomed, Total Vision and Z-Union. To stream medical data to the • Typical to healthcare, there is an all- CoBrain-Analytics platform, a production pervasive lack of well-annotated and connection was made to medical balanced data required to tackle clinically organizations such as the State Scientific relevant analytical tasks. Artificial Center of Coloproctology named after A.N. intelligence approaches that mitigate this Ryzhih, the Institute of Surgery named shortage are at the core of all effort in the after A.V. Vishnevsky, and the Scientific joint laboratory with Philips (Professor Center of Neurology. An acceleration Dylov). In 2019, an assertion classification program, AI & Big Data in Medicine, was methodology was developed based on made in collaboration with Philips in the recurrent neural networks, attention frame of CoBrain-Analytics. mechanism and two flavors of transfer learning (language modeling and heuristic • Major results from the research projects in annotation) that achieved state of the art molecular neurobiology (Professor results on MIMIC-CXR radiology data. As a Khaitovich) – components of methods result, a new method of "Deep Text Prior" for diagnostics of depressive states (alike the infamous "Deep Image Prior" also and schizophrenia based on lipid developed at Skoltech) was released, which biomarkers in blood plasma – are allows for the building of decision-making valuable for commercialization. They models with weakly annotated records. will be further developed into a cognitive A new method for synthetic generation disorders diagnostic method for medical of computer tomography images (CT) applications under an industry funded 97

/03 VALUE GENERATION R&D project. A MoU with an industrial commercialization in December 2019). partner on the project has been in the The key contribution of Skoltech team is final stage of approval. in the module for multiphase flow inside fractures, as well as in the new advanced • Within the Oerlikon project experimental models for hydraulic fracture tip propagation. studies has performed devoting to These results have been achieved in mechanical and structural properties collaboration partners, including from of AM 316LSS. The fatigue behavior Dalhousie University (Canada), Aberystwyth up to 109 cycles (VHCF regime) of University (UK) and University of Houston 316LSS specimens manufactured by (USA), and Russian academia (Institute for the L-PBF and DMT technologies has Hydrodynamics SB RAS, Institute of Oil & been investigated to compare the two Gas Geology and Geophysics SB RAS). production routes. Fatigue strength and the S-N curves of the materials have been • New algorithms and a software module obtained; the microstructural analysis of for real-time geonavigation during drilling fracture surfaces has been performed. in unconventional formations. The software Overall, the specimens produced by for 3D geomechnical simulation of wellbore DMT technology have demonstrated stability was developed and validated. The higher fatigue performance than those license agreement was signed with Geonaft produced by LPBF technology. Non-melted Company to commercialize the technology powder particles have been observed (Professor Cheremisin). on the fracture surface of the L-PBF printed specimen and identified as stress • The research group of Professor Koroteev concentrators and initiation points for in collaboration with Professor Oseledets fatigue crack nucleation. The absence and Professor Burnaev developed for of such defects in DMT-specimens has Gazprom Neft STC a new computational explained the higher fatigue resistance core for multiphase flow modeling in in comparison with LPBF-specimens. reservoir systems based on deep learning For both technologies, the initiation of algorithms. This core allows to accelerate the fatigue crack in low- and high-cycle hydrodynamic modeling of a reservoir range started from defects at the surface. by several orders of magnitude and Furthermore, the fracture surface is minimizes risks when investing in field usually clearly divided into two or three development, well construction and well zones: zones of fatigue crack propagation, treatment. Deep learning algorithms also final static failure zone. The size of the open up the possibility of using the new zones has been found to depend on the history matching method based on AI – fatigue life of the specimens (Professor approximations for real production data. Akhatov, Professor Kasimov, Professor Shishkovsky, Dr. Evlashin, • A comprehensive study of deformation, and Dr. Chugunov). elastic, acoustic and mechanical strength characteristics was carried out for extremely • The CyberFRAC project was successfully dense and strong rock samples taken out completed for Gazprom Neft by the from a depth of more than 5 km below Skoltech Digital Laboratory for Modeling the Earth’s surface. A special objective of of Multiphase Flows in Oil & Gas Industry the project was the physical modeling of (Professor Osiptsov) in a consortium hydraulic fracturing in a laboratory under led by CET MIPT. The project aimed thermobaric conditions equivalent to those at development of Russian software of the reservoir (temperature over 130 °C for design of hydraulic fracturing and pressure over 37 MPa). During treatments for Russian oil producing laboratory studies of hydraulic fracturing, 98 companies (successful completion and an acoustic emission technique was applied

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH to monitor the dynamics of hydraulic fracture • Project “Integrating Model Based Systems propagation – such kind of monitoring is Engineering based Concurrent Design with analogous to microseismicity monitoring Technology Roadmapping” with Airbus in field conditions. This was the first time was completed by Space Center, resulted that such a verification of modeling with the in a software package called CONTOUR, results of experiments was carried out in the which implies developing roadmaps for Russian Federation. The outcome confirmed large enterprises and technology programs. a good correspondence of modeling results This allows to eliminate the duplication with experimentally measured values in more of technology development, define key than 50% of cases. technologies and, finally, increase profits.

Skoltech Multiphase Systems Lab runs field testing campaign on new technologies for oil production stimulation in the oilfields of Gazpromneft-Khantos (the largest operating subsidary of JSC Gazprom Neft). 99

/03 VALUE GENERATION New Enterprises & Technology Licensing Since 2012, more than 70 startups collecting e-sports data and detecting the have been founded by Skoltech personnel, psycho-emotional condition of players. students, and alumni. The vast majority of • TetraQuant (Dr. Yashchenok, Professor companies are Russian based. 40 startups Gorin, Dr. Chernyshev, Dr. German) are with Skolkovo residence status. Here produces high-throughput bioanalytical are some examples of companies that were platforms for early stage diagnosis and established in 2019: monitoring of patient’s health during and after medical treatment. The company • MRM Proteomics R (Professor Nikolaev, has engineered and tested a platform that Professor Borchers, Maxim Mironenko). allows capturing and quantifying exosomes The company specializes in a new containing signatures of ovarian cancer at generation of products in quantitative mass low limit of detection. This proof-of-concept spectrometric proteomics for personalized will allow for the expansion and application medicine. The developed test kits for of the TetraQuant technology. The end-goal the quantitative assessment of protein is to create devices based on this platform biomarkers make it possible to determine that can detect exosome markers of with high accuracy the concentration of different cancer types, neurodegenerative 1000 proteins simultaneously in one blood diseases, viral infections, and other plasma sample, which makes it possible diseases in a short time with minimal to diagnose various diseases in humans sample volume at the point-of-care. at an early stage, primarily oncological, cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological The companies established in 2018 were and hematological disorders. MRM further developed. Syntelly (Professor Fedorov Proteomics R is Winner of the Russian and PhD student S. Sosnin) is developing Chapter at the IPIEC GLOBAL 2019 a software platform that will be able to plan competition and included in top-30 of organic synthesis better than humans. Soon the World Final at the IPIEC GLOBAL 2019. the MVP will be ready, and then intensive • LMA Technologies (Professor Uzhinsky, search for further investment will start. Dr. Derevnin, Professor Drachev, Tensor Fields (Professor Oseledets, Professor Dr. Seregin) – will focus on research, Pukalchik, I. Khlebnikov, M. Kuznetsov) development, and commercialization received two commercial contracts; researchers of antenna systems for mobile satellite finally found a way to simulate and project crop communication of low-orbit broadband growth in a region scale by using our flagship access systems based on two new critical supercomputer Zhores. Geoalert (Dr. Ignatyev, technologies – dielectric lens elements Dr. Potapov) won the Russian Post acceleration made of metamaterials using 3D printing program. At the final stage, only 10 projects technology and automated beam position were selected among 300+ applicants. control systems. • Helix Tank Lab (Professor Sergeichev, In 2019, a few licensing contracts devoted Professor Safonov, Dr. Gusev, Professor to eight items of intellectual property Akhatov) will conduct design, simulation, (2 registered software, 2 databases, 3 utility manufacturing, testing, and certification models, and know-how for engineering of composite portable tanks and pressure documentation) were signed: vessels for transportation of chemicals. • HEAD KRAKEN (Professor Somov, • Exclusive License Agreements for Software Professor Burnaev) was a result of the and Know-How devoted to Autonomous Skoltech STRIP program and the project Mobile Platform. The platform is capable of G(ame)-psycho. The company develops delivering items in stores and warehouses and commercializes a platform based with dynamic changes in the environment. 100 on artificial intelligence technologies for Skoltech designed not only software but

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH also hardware for such a system and has • Non-exclusive License Agreement for successfully demonstrated its technical several inventions devoted measurement and economic feasibility through pilots in of surface quality for roads and rails. The collaboration with Decathlon. Licensed to three utility models that together describe LLC Platforma – SPV of Decathlon Russia. a software-hardware system with a broad • Non-exclusive License Agreement for practical application in construction testing Software ERA-GLONASS. The were licensed to the stock company program is designed to perform functional Minimax-94. testing of the ERA-GLONASS emergency call • Non-exclusive License Agreement for devices, including a GSM base station and databases of genotypes and phenotypes core (MSC/HLR) emulators. Due to a high of oilseeds. Through long-term research market demand, Skoltech has renegotiated activities, Skoltech has collected a the previously signed exclusive license in comprehensive data set related to 2018 and provided the solution to several oilseed crops that found commercial partners under non-exclusive terms. Licensed applications in 2019. Licensed to LLC to Russian company Vi Tu Lab, LLC. Agroplasma.

Three Skoltech startups/projects ranked among Sberbank Accelerator’s top-30 projects and top-500 startups in 2019. 101

/03 VALUE GENERATION Professional Training & Advisory Services Professional training

The major clients for professional training program with Skolkovo Business School; contracts were leading national high-tech corporate programs with ILIM, Sibur and companies such as Gazprom Neft, Sberbank, Russian Grids are also under development. TsNIIMash, Rostelecom, Russian Grids and In addition, an online course, A Brief Theory others. Among the courses delivered: and Immediate Practice of Innovation on the Internet of Things, was designed by Professor Professor Burnaev, Dr. Zaytsev for Somov, Professor Kulish, and Professor Gazprombank: Nikolaev. The target audience of the course • A course on Time Series. is young entrepreneurs willing to learn on • A course on Python for Machine learning. innovation and what a user IoT product is; the course will be available on YouTube. Professor Burnaev, Dr. Zaytsev, Professor The large scale educational intensive Ferrer for Gazprom Neft: Ostrov 10-22, hosted on campus, became • Lectures on Industry 4.0. a platform for lectures, seminars, and round • A session on AI in the oil & gas industry. tables organized by the CREIs. Space Center • A session on digital technologies in held a lab titled Infocommunications for logistics. Digital Economy: New Generation Space Technologies, Expert Lectures on Remote Professor Burnaev, Dr. Zaytsev, Professor Sensing (Dr. Gershenzon), CDIO-methodology Fedorov for Sberbank: implantation for Cyber Physical Systems • A program for machine learning for (Professor Fortin), and Systems Engineering employees of Risks Block. (Professor Ivanov). CDISE, presented by a • A course on the fundamentals of machine group of professors and researchers, covered learning for senior management. the most important topics of this conference • Bayesian methods and PyTorch. – ML and DL, IoT, 5G, e-sports, digital agriculture, brain machine interface, quantum The new approaches for diversification computing, and Earth observation. More than of Skoltech proposal included a corporate thirty educational activities were organized course about Systems Engineering (Professor in total, three of them jointly with CDISE Ivanov), CDMM open enrollment course about startups (Syntelli, Head Kracken, Tensor certification (Professor Sergeichev), a partner Fields).

102

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Advising

Skoltech Analytical Department on Science for development and implementation of & Technology Development was engaged in domestic technologies for fifth-generation organizing and conducting analytical work telecom networks.” and research in the field of science and • Proposals for guidelines for the Ministry of technology policy. Among the key results Industry and Trade for state-owned and activities: companies on reducing barriers to the implementation of innovative • White Paper on Perspective Directions in technologies (1st Phase of Technet Neuro technologies (in press) Legislative Roadmap) • Analytical report on tuition fees policies in • Preparation of materials for the project of Russia and the world regulations of the government of • Analytical support to development of Russia on amendments to the action National Project “Science” plan (roadmap) on legislation and • Analytical support to the Ministry of reducing of administrative barriers to Economic Development on topics of the implementation of the National leading innovation centers, megagrants, Technological Initiative Technet (2nd Phase suggestions on indicators for evaluation of of Technet Legislative Roadmap) the Strategy for Scientific and Technological • Substantiated measures for the stimulation Development implementation of demand for domestic telecom • Consortium of Developers and equipment, which led to the provision of Manufactures of telecommunication subsidies to financing institutions in the equipment (for 5G telecom networks) National Program Digital Economy (Project established Digital Technologies) • Developed and presented to the Russian • Analytical support for newly established Government, Rostec, Rostelecom a draft international collaboration of Skoltech in of governmental regulation “on state the field of electric vehicles and energy support for complex technology projects storage systems13.

13 NDA topic. 103

/03 VALUE GENERATION Expert groups

Skoltech broadened its presence in large- In 2019, CDISE started participation in scale initiatives and programs; here are some standardization activities with Rosstandart select examples: and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Professor Fedorov • President Alexander Kuleshov and chairs the Trustworthiness working group Professor Fedorov were invited to the and its subgroup AI Ethical Concerns of the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Technical committee for standardization Conference as technical experts to 164 Artificial Intelligence. This committee discuss issues related to artificial acts in the field of AI technologies on intelligence. the international level. In particular, • The Space Center is included in the Trustworthiness group is responsible ROSCOSMOS project office for the SPHERA for creating the position of the Russian program, which is currently the largest Federation in standards related to the program under development in the Russian properties of autonomous intelligent systems space industry. and its ethical concerns. By the end of 2019, • Professor Khaitovich, a member of the CDISE representatives participated in the BRICS Working group on biotech and balloting for two standards by sharing clear biomed, was involved in the BRICS arguments with the international community. Biotechnology and Biomedicine Innovation Collaboration Conference in Taizhou, The technical committee for standardization China, and at the 3rd meeting of BRICS 194 Cyber-physical systems is acting under the STI Working Group on Biomed and Biotech guidance of CDISE manager for standardization in Campinas, Brazil. N. Utkin. The following standards have been • CDISE specialists participated in National developed and promoted in 2019: Technology Initiative working groups, and the Research Coordination Council of the • Methods of functional testing of a device/ Center of Excellence Artificial Intelligence, emergency call system installed on a led by MIPT. wheeled vehicle during pre-sale preparation • Professor Spasennykh heads the expert and technical inspection of a vehicle (ERA- group on innovation development of the GLONASS) oil and gas industry in the Commission • Protocol for wireless data transmission on Technological Modernization of Russia for high-capacity networks based on under the President of the Russian ultra-narrowband radio signal modulation Federation. (OpenUNB, Open Ultra-Narrowband).

104

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Professor Khaitovich of Skoltech’s Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration took part in the “BRICS Biotechnology and Biomedicine Innovation Collaboration Conference,” which was held in Taizhou, China, on November 1-2, 2019.

The 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference Plenary Session. November 21, 2019. 105

/03 VALUE GENERATION Summary Data

Contracted funding per source (mln RUB) Contracted funding for 2019 (mln RUB)

CDISE 2019 CHR

CDMM 2018 CPQM CEST CLS 2017 SC CNBR 0500 1000 1500 0100 200300 400

Ministry subsidies

High-tech companies

R&D contracts R&D contracts portfolio (funds contracted for 2019) 2020–2023

Telecom EnergyTelecomAgro & Energybiotech Agro & biotech Oil & gaz Oil & gaz 6% 6% 6% 3%6% 3% 7% 7% Agro & biotech Agro & biotech Photonics & Photonics & 22% 22% Internet Internet Quantum Quantum Oil & gaz Oil & gaz of Things of Things 8% 8% 35% 35% 35% 35% Energy Energy Manufacturing Manufacturing 4% 4% 10% 10% Telecom Telecom 3% 3% Internet Internet IT IT of Things of Things IT IT Photonics & Photonics & 15% 15% 17% 17% 15% 15% Quantum ManufacturingQuantum Manufacturing 0,3% 10%0,3% 10%

Total amount – 1,1 bln RUB Total amount of portfolio – 1,4 bln RUB 106

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech startups (cumulative) Skoltech startups with Sk residence per clusters

74

74 Manufacturing Biomed 40 23% 20% Manufacturing Biomed 40 23% 20%

26

19 3426 17 7 19 34 0 IT Energy 2017 2018 201917 7 32% 25% 0 IT Energy 2017 2018 2019 Non-Sk residents Sk residents 32% 25%

Non-Sk residents Sk residents

Skoltech startups with Sk residence per CREI

CDISE 11 SC 6

CDMM 6 CPQM 4 CEI 4 CEST 3 CLS 3 CHR 3

0 11

107

/03 VALUE GENERATION 108

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Operational Management /04 The Operational Management block ensures • First year operation in newly implemented delivery of services including financial planning ERP (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and controlling, accounting, human resources R3), adjusting the system to current management, IT systems, and services, legal activities, conducting quality assurance support, procurement, internal control, and of automated business processes, safety. The major activities in 2019 included: support of further optimization. Full integration with EPS Cognos and • Implementation of a new financial approach Directum (EDMS). aimed at efficiency and sustainability of • Launch of the project module in industrial projects. Directum. • Launch of a new operational support model • Completed audit of the Skolkovo of business partnering approach to support Foundation (KPMG) for target use of the CREIs and departments on issues of Foundation Grant; audit according to IFRS finance and procurement. and RAS (unqualified (positive) opinion • Registration of a revised charter, Skoltech received). legal address. • Implemented internal controls in main • Provision of legal and administration operational processes. services to Skoltech startups. • Completed IT Security audit to comply with • Intensification and tuning of controls in 152 FZ (Personal Data safety). procurement procedures through • Provision of housing opportunities for processing through purchase requisitions students and faculty. in ERP solely (prior to any payment), • Development and improvement of improvement in procurement procedures operational business processes with timeline. regards to risks.

110

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH Skoltech campus awarded Prix Versailles 2019 prize at UNESCO HQ in Paris. September 2019. 111

/04 OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT GLOSSARY

СAS CNBR SC Center for Advanced Studies Center for Neurobiology Space Center and Brain Restoration СDISE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN Center for Computational CPQM (SAP) Data-Intensive Science Center for Photonics and Institutional Plan for and Engineering Quantum Materials Development which sets vision, strategic goals and initiatives, CDMM CREI (CENTER) KPIs, tasks and actions, Center for Design, Institute’s structural unit responsibilities, budget. The Manufacturing and Materials implementing a long-term SAP is developed for a three (at least three years) development years’ cycle, annually updated CEI program, aimed at integration of and approved by the Board Center for Entrepreneurship research and education activities, of Trustees. The SAP serves a and Innovation value generation (Centers basis for the Grant Agreement, for Research, Education reporting to the stakeholders CEST and Innovation (CREIs), Center for Energy Science Center for Advanced Studies) TARGET DOMAIN and Technology strategic focus area of RFBR the Institute’s education, CHR Russian Foundation for Basic scientific, research and Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery Research development and (or) innovation activities. CLS RSF Approved by the Board Center for Life Sciences Russian Science Foundation of Trustees within the SAP.

112

ANNUAL REPORT // SKOLTECH

SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Skoltech) 143026, Moscow, Bolshoy boulevard 30, build. 1. Tel. +7 (495) 280 14 81 www.skoltech.ru

The information in this report was correct at the time of printing (March 2020). The University reserves the right to alter or amend the material contained in this report.