INRTU and Sber Strengthen Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies
INRTU and Sber organized a pitch session in the field of artificial intelligence and IT competencies. INRTU students presented to Sber's top managers the university's technological projects created with the use of machine vision, VR and AR, drone and digital technologies.
Recall that in March 2024, Sber, the government of the Irkutsk region and INRTU signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation. The document provides for joint efforts to create the Baikal Center for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies.
The participants of the pitch organized within the framework of the memorandum were university employees headed by Rector Mikhail Korniakov, Yulia Kalvina, manager of the Irkutsk branch of Sberbank, Dmitry Lyaskovsky, advisor to the chairman of the Baikal Bank of Sberbank, and other representatives of the company.
Dmitry Lyaskovsky noted that Sber is an entire ecosystem that develops various digital services:
“For our customers and commercial partners, Sber is not just a bank. Together we realize and implement digital transformation projects based on the needs of our customers. Sber has traveled a complex path of digitalization and is ready to share its rich experience.”
According to Yulia Kalvina, the Irkutsk branch of Sberbank has a large pool of clients actively implementing digitalization:
“Customers need effective IT solutions for business development and improvement of production processes. To meet their needs, we decided to unite science and business. We hope that Sber's experience and the scientific potential of the university staff will allow us to realize joint projects”.
During the pitch session, various presentations were made by employees of different laboratories and institutes. Vladimir Mironenko, researcher of the Laboratory of Network Systems and IT Infrastructure of INRTU, presented an author's program that utilizes artificial intelligence for defectoscopy of parts. Another presentation by researcher Roman Kononenko from the same laboratory showcased devices and software products developed for the Irkutsk Oil Company, including a system for tracking personnel at remote sites, a food distribution accounting system, and a personnel identification pass. Alexey Govorkov, Director of the School of Information Technology and Data Science, emphasized the use of VR and AR technologies in the university's educational process, contributing to improved learning quality.
Sber's top managers expressed interest in INRTU’s robotic catamaran, which has various applications such as meteorology, hydrochemistry, hydrophysics, relief study, object search, and patrolling.
Researchers at INRTU are using AI in various projects, including ore thickening research and surveying. Alexander Burdonov's laboratory “Flotation and Reagent Chemistry” has developed a program that accelerates ore thickening research by five times. Dmitry Shadrin, a leading researcher at the School of Information Technologies and Data Science, also contributed to this project. Alexander Parshin, one of the heads of strategic projects at INRTU, spoke about the i.GeoDesign project, which presents developments in unmanned technologies from the Siberian School of Geosciences. Alexander Makaruk discussed the i.DIT strategic project, which focuses on digital technologies for aircraft parts. INRTU’s developments in surveying were presented by Evgeniy Belyaev, Head of the Center for Surveying and Geodesy Innovations. In addition, INRTU engineers are working on inclinometers and digital systems for product control in warehouses.
Sber recognized the versatility of INRTU’s projects and expressed interest in assisting with customer acquisition and platform placement for the university's IT solutions.
