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Production and processing of liquid hydrocarbons – digital technologies to improve production efficiency, including digital core, machine learning systems for field analysis, methods to enhance oil recovery and increase the development of hard-to-recover reserves, digital methods for efficient hydrocarbon processing.
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New generation nuclear technologies – nuclear fuel cycle closure, decommissioning of nuclear power facilities, technology for safe handling of nuclear materials, non-destructive testing methods and technology.
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Power Transmission – digital models and algorithms for power system capacity control, real-time power system simulators.
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Chemistry, biomedicine and pharmacology – modeling and optimization of chemical and technological industrial processes, computer design and simulation of new chemical compounds, finite-element modeling of anatomical structures to develop personalized implants and plan surgical operations, finite-element modeling and visualization of anatomical structures based on electroimpedance tomography.
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Nondestructive testing – software algorithms for automated processing of non-destructive testing data, used to detect defects and determine their parameters.
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Terrorism and threats to national security – research and software development in the field of information and communication technologies, as determined by the Strategy for the Development of Information Society in the Russian Federation for 2017-2030, the Comprehensive Plan for Countering Terrorism Ideology in the Russian Federation for 2019-2023. In this respect, our priority is to ensure information security of citizens of the Russian Federation in terms of protection against potential sources of information security threats and risks, prevention of challenges, risks of any social and cultural threats (including all kinds of protest manifestations), threats of extremism (including information extremism), and terrorism.
TPU R&D projects in Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence:
Yulia Ivanova
Associate Professor, Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Text detection in natural images on houses, streets, and billboards using bilateral filters and convolutional neural networks.
Arseniy Chulkov
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Industrial Tomography, School of Non-Destructive Testing
Prof. Leonid Ulyev
Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences
- Improving energy efficiency of industrial enterprises.
- Optimization of heat exchange systems.
- Thermodynamic pinch analysis.
- Electropinch.
- Mass exchange pinch.
- Total site and process integration.
- Heat transfer.
- Hydrodynamics.
- Engineering and mathematical modeling of chemical and technological processes.
- Integration of renewable energy sources into industrial and public supply systems (synthesis of heat and power hybrid systems).
- Reduction of anthropogenic impact on the environment (ESG).
Prof. Anna Karpova
Division for Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Core Engineering Education
- Information Anomie.
- Big Data and Digital Sociology.
- Prototyping software packages to study online radicalization using Web Mining and AI methods.
Prof. Magerram Gasanov
Division for Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Core Engineering Education
- Study of structural sustainability of the economy.
- Development of algorithms to achieve technological sovereignty.
- Digital transformation of neo-industrial economy model.
Tamara Nesterenko
Associate Professor, Division for Electronic Engineering, School of Non-Destructive Testing
- Development of micromechanical inertial sensors.
- Vibration diagnostics of precision instruments.
- Tracking and navigation devices.
Prof. Stanislav Shidlovsky
Butakov Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Systems modeling.
- Automated control systems.
- Robotics.
- Machine vision systems.
Mikhail Andreev
Associate Professor, Division for Power and Electrical Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Modeling complex technological systems.
- Development of an all-mode management strategy for complex power systems in the context of large-scale implementation of low- and zero-carbon energy sources using digital twins of power systems.
Prof. Nikolay Markov
Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Promising convolutional neural network architectures for mobile object detection systems in images.
- Artificial Intelligence applications to analyze images of coniferous forests.
Prof. Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody
Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- 5G and 6G wireless communication technologies.
- Intelligent machine ultra-reliable communication with small data packets.
Prof. Olga Gerget
Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Prosthetic cardiac valve and delivery system for minimally invasive surgery.
- Evolution of neuronal cascades regulating pleasure and happiness with the habenula in control.
- Robotic platform for endovascular cardiac surgery.
Dr. Roman Rezaev
Associate professor, Research School of Physics
- Development of hybrid machine learning models for express designing of concrete production technologies with specified properties using a digital repository.
Prof. Olga Berestneva
Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
- Support system based on digital footprint analysis for quality of life management.
Dr. Yuriy Chursin
Head of Research laboratory for Telecommunications, Instrument Engineering and Marine Geology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Modeling complex technological systems.
- Mathematical, algorithmic and software tools for multilevel motion control of a group of autonomous unmanned underwater robots under parameter uncertainty based on edge computing.
Dr. Valery Rukavishnikov
Deputy Director for Development, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Sergey Chakhlov
Head of Russian-Chinese Laboratory for X-Ray Inspection, School of Non-Destructive
Prof. Vladimir Spitsyn
Division for Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Robotics
- Text tone analysis based on the application of ensembles of convolutional neural networks in conjunction with bidirectional long short-term memory networks.
- Deep convolutional generative adversarial network-based analysis of images and video sequences for road pavement distress segmentation.
- Development of neural network models for motor pattern recognition and diagnosis of neurological diseases based on the analysis of electroencephalograms in brain-computer interfaces.
Prof. Konstantin Brazovsky
Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences
- Mathematical modeling and optimization of industrial chemical engineering processes.
- Computer-aided design and modeling of new chemical compounds, including bioactivity prediction.
- Finite-element modeling of anatomical structures to develop personalized implants and plan surgical operations.
- Digital methods of biopotentials processing for evaluation of functional state of biological tissues.
- Finite-element modeling and visualization of anatomical structures based on electroimpedance tomography.
Elena Ivashkina
Division for Chemical Engineering, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
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Digital twins. Modeling complex technological systems. Modeling of catalytic processes for hydrogen production and use. Chemical technology of oil and gas processing. Mathematical modeling of refining and petrochemical processes. Catalytic processes of oil refining. Synthesis processes of linear alkylbenzenes and their derivatives. Petroleum refining and petrochemicals, mathematical modeling.
- Strategy for transition to advanced digital smart manufacturing technology of catalytic processes of crude hydrocarbon processing.