HSE University and Yandex Cloud Hold Career School on AI Solutions for Social Tasks
HSE University has hosted a project-based career school organised by the Yandex Cloud Centre for Technologies and Society and the HSE Career Development Centre. The programme was intended for second-to-fourth-year bachelor’s students and first-to-second-year master's students of programmes related to social, technical, and business subjects. The school was aimed at students interested in solving social problems using AI technologies.
Over the course of ten days, the participants worked on projects, from defining a problem to developing solutions and defending them before an expert jury. The work was carried out in two tracks: humanitarian and technical. In the humanitarian track, participants developed product hypotheses and models for solving social problems, while in the technical track they created applied AI agents based on Yandex Cloud AI Studio.
Marina Kosheleva
'The Social Tech Lab project school was our first experiment to combine several elements at the university: technology, the social sphere, talented students, and experts from the Yandex Cloud Centre for Technologies and Society. We ended up with a lot of ideas for implementing AI in the fields of education, healthcare, and ecology. We were glad to host more than 70 HSE students for the final defence at the Yandex office. We have already continued cooperation with several teams to implement the projects of the Centre for Technologies and Society,’ said Marina Kosheleva, Manager of Education, Science, and Culture Projects at Yandex Cloud.
Evgeny Sedashov
‘This project is a clear example of how skills at the intersection of social and computer science allow us to create high-demand AI solutions for socially significant tasks. It is important that students of the Computational Social Sciences programme and other faculty programmes succeeded in proving themselves. This confirms the systemic potential of the interdisciplinary approach. We are confident that such specialists will make a major contribution to the responsible and socially significant use of technology,’ said Evgeny Sedashov, Academic Supervisor of the Bachelor’s in Computational Social Sciences.
Over the course of ten days, the participants completed an extensive educational programme of lectures, workshops in various fields, and master classes on AI tools and pitching. The first open lecture was given by Daria Zolotukhina, HR Director and Curator of Yandex ESG. The participants discussed the company's technological and social projects, as well as the skills and competencies required for employees in today’s market.
Anna Lemyakina, National and Strategic Projects Director at Yandex Cloud, gave an introductory lecture on Yandex Cloud technology projects and approaches to their implementation. The participants got acquainted with the principles of working on major initiatives and analysed example projects. After that, the participants formed teams and started working on the tasks.
The team of the Yandex Cloud Centre for Technologies and Society conducted workshops in education, ecology, and healthcare.
Participants of the Yandex AI Studio master class got acquainted with the platform's tools for developing AI agents and analysed application scenarios for the track tasks.
Ekaterina Uzlova, Head of the Yandex Cloud Research Strategy Group, delivered a lecture on ‘Case Method.’ The participants learned how to analyse a problem, formulate hypotheses, and build a solution logic, which served as the basis for the final defence.
At the open lecture ‘The Use of AI in Solving Business Tasks,’ Elena Samokhina, Head of the Yandex Ecom business development group, spoke on applied cases of introducing artificial intelligence into commercial processes, from the automation of operational tasks to ML solutions in real business.
Attendees of the open lecture ‘Career Opportunities at Yandex Cloud’ learned about real career paths within the company, requirements for candidates, and entry points for students and early-career professionals.
A pitching master class from the HSE Business Club helped the participants figure out how to prepare a speech, present an idea, and answer questions from the jury. Pitching skills were taken into account in the final evaluation of projects.
The final defence took place at the Yandex office in Moscow. The teams with the best solutions got the opportunity to implement their projects together with the Yandex Cloud Centre for Technologies and Society.
The career school will continue to develop a project-based learning format that allows students to work with relevant tasks at the intersection of technology and social sciences while developing competencies that are in demand in a modern professional environment.
Olga Gaevskaya
‘Project-based career schools at the HSE Career Development Centre are always an interesting experiment—we and our partners try different formats for immersing students in professional fields and issues,’ said Olga Gaevskaya, Head of the HSE Office for Alumni Relations and Career Development. ‘This school was one of the largest events, enabling us to combine humanitarian and technological tracks with research and study of socially significant issues. Using the principles of interdisciplinarity, the participants could unlock the potential of applying their knowledge and skills in related areas, which allowed them to go beyond narrow specialisations and create truly new and innovative solutions.’
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