Skoltech is an international graduate research-focused university that was founded by the group of world-renowned scientists in 2011. Skoltech's curriculum focuses on technology and innovation, offering Master's programs in 11 technological disciplines. Students receive rigorous theoretical and practical training, design their own research projects, participate in internships and gain entrepreneurial skills in English. The faculty is comprised of current researchers with international accreditation and achievements.

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Colloquium: Indoor Data Management: Status and Challenges

When: 02-10-2014 16:00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium – China cluster

IPS (Indoor Positioning System). couretsy of phys.org

Once again, the Skoltech Colloquium convenes. And this week we are pleased to invite you to a talk by Prof. Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, titled “Indoor Data Management: Status and Challenges”.

What: Indoor data management: status and challenges

When: October 2, 4 pm

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium – China cluster

Abstract: People spend 80-90% of their time in indoor environments such as offices, undergrounds, shopping malls and airports. On the other hand, the uptake of interesting applications in indoor spaces (e.g., navigation, inventory management and elderly support) has so far been hampered by the lack of technologies that can provide indoor location (position) accurately, in real time, in an energy-efficient manner, and without expensive additional hardware. Modern smartphones currently rely on cloud-based Indoor Positioning Services (IPS), which can provide the location of a user upon request but those are inaccurate and additionally raise important location privacy concerns, as the IPS can know where the user is at all times.

In this talk, I will start out with an overview of the building blocks of Anyplace, our in-house IPS that recently won several international research awards for its accuracy (i.e., less than 2 meters) and utility.

Anyplace deploys a number of innovative concepts, including crowdsourcing, big-data management, energy-aware processing, multi-device optimization, and mobile data management, in order to realize a power-efficient and accurate indoor localization and navigation technology.

In the second part of this talk, I will focus on an algorithm we developed for protecting users from location tracking by the IPS, without hindering the provisioning of fine-grained location updates on a continuous basis. Our algorithm exploits a k-Anonymity Bloom filter and a generator of camouflaged localization requests, both of which are shown to be resilient to a variety of privacy attacks.

My talk will be succeeded by a summary of related research efforts, namely SmartLab, which is a novel in-house programming cluster of smartphones that we use in our experimental studies; and Rayzit, which is an award-winning location-based crowd messaging service that addresses big-data velocity with parallel algorithms and distributed NoSQL databases.

Prof. Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus

Speaker: Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus. He (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, directing the Data Management Systems Laboratory (DMSL). Before his current appointment, he served the University of Cyprus and the Open University of Cyprus as a Lecturer of Computer Science and was also a Visiting Researcher at the network intelligence lab of Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, USA.

Demetris has served as the PC Co-Chair of IEEE MDM’10, VLDB’s DMSN’10 and ACM MobiDE’09, the General Chair for ACM MobiDE’10, the Contest Chair of IEEE ICDM’10, the Organization Chair of HDMS’10, the Demo Co-Chair for IEEE MDM’13 and the Panel Co-Chair for IEEE MDM’14. Currently, he serves as the Workshops Co-Chair for IEEE MDM’15. His primary research interests include Data Management in Systems and Networks, in particular Distributed Query Processing, Storage and Retrieval Methods for Sensor, Smartphone and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Mobile and Network Data Management, Energy-aware Data Management and more recently Big & Crowd Data Management. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and USENIX.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

Kaspersky Co-founder joins Skoltech Board of Trustees

24/09/2014

Natalya Kasperskaya. CEO of InfoWatch Group and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab and new member of the Skoltech Board of Trustees

First major announcement from the Skoltech Board of Trustees meeting in Boston, USA (not far from where MIT, the institute’s partner university, is located): Natalya Kasperskaya , the CEO of InfoWatch Group and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, the Russian based security software giant, joins Skoltech’s BoT. Here is a quick biographical summary and career milestones reached by one of Russia’s leading innovators.

In 1997, Natalya Kasperskaya founded Kaspersky Lab together with Eugene Kaspersky, becoming its CEO. Throughout the 10 years of Natalya Kasperskaya’s leadership at Kaspersky Lab, the company had gone from being an unknown startup to a global IT industry leader, with half-a-billion-dollar revenue. In 2003, Kaspersky Lab founded a subsidiary company — InfoWatch, which focused on developing solutions to protect corporate confidential data from leakage. In 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya became its CEO.

In 2009-2011, she headed an IT work group under the Federal Special Purpose Program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, R&D in Priority Areas of Russia’s Science and Technology Complex for 2014-2020. In 2010, Kasperskaya spearheaded the establishment of a subsidiary — Kribrum to develop a service for monitoring and analyzing the reputations of companies, brands, and people in the World Wide Web. The company was founded by InfoWatch, in collaboration with Ashmanov & Partners, The same year InfoWatch adopted Cezurity – a developer of targeted attack prevention solutions. In 2011, upon acquiring Cynapspro GmbH, – a German company, which develops endpoint data protection solutions for corporate networks, – Natalya Kasperskaya transformed InfoWatch into a holding under the same name.

In early 2012, Natalya Kasperskaya became a shareholder of Appercut (Canada), which joined the InfoWatch Group. Appercut develops software for automatic source code audit for vulnerabilities and backdoors in custom business applications. In October 2012, Natalya Kasperskaya became a stockholder and a Board member of the German G Data Software AG, a company that provides anti-malware solutions. In 2013, Natalya Kasperskaya invested in Taiga, a Russian startup developing an innovative mobile device protection system against tracking and information theft. In November 2013, Natalya Kasperskaya joined the Skolkovo Foundation Grant Committee.

Natalya Kasperskaya lectures at several universities in Moscow. She is a winner of many prestigious international IT awards, including:

 Bronze medal of the Top-100 Most Influential Russian Women rating, Business category.

 The prestigious international award Russian Business Leader of the Year 2012 for her remarkable contribution to the progress of the Russian IT industry, according to Horasis: the Global Visions Community.

 Leader of the Top-1000 Senior Russian Managers of 2013, IT category, according to Kommersant Publishing House and the Russian Managers Association.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

Skoltech Space Scientist Awarded EU Innovation Grant

18/09/2014

The EU commission Horizon 2020 program grant awarded to a team led by Skoltech professor Yuri Shprits. Image courtesy of EU commission. httpec.europa.eu

Over the last few decades various powerful nations have realized that outer space is where they can and should cooperate. International collaboration on space projects is driven by the dream of further exploration. But there is also the need to forecast hazardous events such as solar storms or high radiation levels – and prepare for those. And this is where Skoltech professor Yuri Shprits and his team of researchers come into the picture. The Moscow based scientists have developed a Space Forecast project, titled PROGRESS. Along with colleagues from seven European countries, they landed a grant from the highly competitive European Union’s Research and Innovation program “Horizon 2020″.

The funding is aimed to support the creation of a space weather forecasting framework. It highlights Skoltech’s growing role in the development of innovative technologies for space data processing, and the importance of global partnerships. Russia is not a member state of the EU. However, non-member states can be included in the H2020 grant if they contribute essential expertise that is not available anywhere else in Europe.

Professor Yuri Shprits, Skoltech, specializes in space forecast and magnetospheric reconstruction

Shprits, who worked at UCLA and consulted students and scholars from Norway, China, Australia and the US, feels well positioned to foster collaboration. “I think the most exciting thing about PROGRESS is that we will combine the efforts of a number of international teams,” he says.

Outer space is an extremely challenging environment for sensitive electronic devices. When outside of the protection of atmosphere, devices are exposed to a constant stream of high-energy particles originating mainly from the Sun and trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field. Hence the importance of magnetospheric reconstruction and space forecasting.

Prof. Shprits: “We will take the knowledge that was obtained over recent decades about the Sun, the solar wind and near Earth environment and transfer it into applications. The aim is to combine a number of computer codes and observations to develop real time prediction of the hazards to satellites and humans in space radiation environment.”

The intensity of radiation can vary, depending on solar wind conditions as well as on processes inside the magnetosphere. In order to determine where and when space equipment might fail, researchers and space agencies must constantly monitor the space environment with research satellites. The Skoltech professor, along with peers from UCLA and MIT, has recently published his findings in the field in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Space Physics (see links here and _here).

“PROGRESS” aims to significantly contribute to the creation of new services for high accuracy space weather forecasting, which will be relevant for various space agencies, research groups and private companies. The prominent feature of the new method it offers is that it makes it possible to determine both the uncertainties of the physical model of near-space environment and of the satellite observations. Thus, it allows to combine those in an optimal way to achieve reconstruction with guaranteed precision.

The Horizon 2020 grant request and research proposal were submitted by a consortium of seven European countries. Grantees include the universities of Sheffield and Warwick (UK), the Finnish Meteorological Institute, University of Michigan (USA), the Space Research Institute of Ukraine (Ukraine), National Center for Scientific Research (France) and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics.

The project’s schedule foresees implementation within 3 years.

* Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation program ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It pledges more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking ideas from the lab to the market.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

A Startup is Born – In 24 Hours

17/09/2014

The LikeIT! application logo

Andrii Omelianovych and his Skoltech classmate Muhammad Saad had a choice between spending their last 24 hours of summer vacation on the beach – or on the couch. Then the graduate students opted for not-so-obvious solution: they created a new mobile application. Called “LikeIt!“, this app aims to revolutionize the shopping experience by making it more social than ever before. We caught up with the 25-year-old masters student and entrepreneur for a short chat about bridging the gap between tech dreams and reality.

LikeIt! is a mobile chat application which helps shoppers with shared interests to exchange on-the-spot, genuine impressions and information about products and services. Users scan barcodes, hashtags or QR codes on packages, write comments, opinions or even warnings. The next potential customer can tap into this pool of authentic knowledge – or add to it. The demo version brings to mind a hybrid between WhatsApp and Foursquare. The road ahead is long and complex, and the team members are well aware of the problems that plague many young companies. And still, they are undeterred.

“It occurred to us that when people consider buying a product in a shop they usually do not have access to immediate feedback and independent opinions about the services and goods that are around them,” says Omelianovych who founded the project with three fellow students willing to contribute their last 24 hours of summer break to pursue a startup dream. “We decided to connect potential customers to a pool of knowledge. That way they can make better choices. This can have immense value.”

Muhammad Saad, a second year IT master’s student at Skoltech, is one of the initial team who dreamed up and executed the plan to create Likeit! Originally from Pakistan, Saad decided the young, Moscow based tech university is a good bet. “I felt that Skoltech’s focus on developing a collaborative and innovative environment was right for me. Here we get a chance to take a huge variety of courses, from Machine Learning to Venture Financing. When Andrii approached me with the idea for this app, I didn’t hesitate for long”, says the bleary-eyed student after toiling overnight on finalizing the app’s web version.

“What I like about students here is that they don’t immediately run to register their startups and start employing people, but concentrate on their product first”, says Ilia Dubinsky, the director of Skoltech’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), which supports student’s startup projects, “projects with such a mature approach have a better chance to succeed”.

It is not the first time that MS student Omelianovych forayed into fields that could be considered far from energy technology, which he studies. He has been one of the founders of another social app, called “imeetu” which aimed to match meeting place with users’ location and personal preferences. In his role with the LikeIt! team focuses on product development and promotion.

Did you really create the whole thing in one last day of summer?

“Almost”, he smiles, “Skoltech has developed an interesting and unique culture of solving complex problems in intensive and relatively short sessions. This is in line with student culture here. Everybody is able and creative. We just need a little push.

“Since joining Skoltech I have always wanted to do a project that would push me towards cooperation with students from various disciplines. Because the university focuses on crosscutting and interdisciplinary impactful research so it jets made sense to me.”

Sounds great. But easier said than done?

“We are hoping to get some traction, test the application and then launch an official version which would include expended functionalities and gather some real customers’ data. We are aiming for product specific information which we could offer to big companies to improve their products and better serve their customers.”

LikeIt! founders team. From right to left Andrii Omelyaonvyich (MSc student in Energy at Skoltech), Muhammad Saad (Information Technology MS student at Skoltech), Ruslan Stetsenko and Zakhar Fadeev

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

Meet the BoT

17/09/2014

Members of Skoltech’s board of trustees (from top right clockwise) Arden L. Bement, Alexander Kuleshov, Jan-Eric Sundgren, Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Alexander Galitsky

Ahead of Skoltech’s board of trustees meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, we conducted a series of short talks with five of its members. We present their key points here with the hope to shed light on ideas and policies they believe will shape the university’s future, and provide a closer-than-usual encounter with the persons who formulate these concepts and strategies. Meet the people that make up our BoT.

Interviews by David Nowak, Alina Sazonova and Ilan Goren

1. What is your opinion on what Skoltech has achieved since it has been in operation?

Arden L. Bement, Director for the Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University

Skoltech has become an operating global institute with officers, faculty and students recruited against the highest standards from around the world. Both the new faculty and the students have received special training in innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT.

Three centers for research, innovation and entrepreneurship (CREIs), two in bioscience and one in electrochemistry, have been established and two more, in energy and quantum materials, are pending approval. Moreover, most of the performance metrics for the first three years have either been met or exceeded.

The students are clearly outstanding. They’ve been very carefully selected, and they would compete well in almost any university in the world.

Alexander Kuleshov, Director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute)

The most important thing in the development of Skoltech – is that it was actually established and began operations. But there is still a very long way. The success of a new university built from scratch can be achieved only with active support by the government. I’m very high on the potential in Russia for economic development. Skolkovo and Skoltech are feeding talent into that economic engine. But to create jobs and build the Russian economy, changes are going to have to be more widespread.

Alexander Galitsky, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Almaz Capital

“What I have heard from the students is that they’ve gained big international experience in understanding industry requirements and needs. It’s very important for graduate universities that people become involved in the global value creation chain, and in introducing new technologies and innovation.

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization

A lot has been achieved. Skoltech’s president Ed Crawley did a great job in developing a concept and putting it into practice. The university developed CREIs (Centers for Research, Education and Innovation), recruited students and faculty and developed contacts with the best institutions, and not just MIT. This is quite an achievement.

Jan-Eric Sundgren, Senior Adviser to the CEO, Volvo Group

The task is formidable. However, Skoltech has not only recruited excellent students, faculty and staff members, adopted a new and innovative strategy but is already starting to gain an international reputation.

2. How important is Skoltech to develop talent in Russia? How useful can and should it be for this country’s society and economy?

JES: Skoltech provides a new possibility to attract and recruit top talents. Russia is a very large country. But by inspiring other domestic universities and by building strong international networks Skoltech’s effect will be much larger than it size.

ELW: Education is everything. It is the future of Russia, Europe and everyone else. Investment in universities and in good structures and young scientists is crucial. From that the translation to technology will grow. Skoltech needs to become a model for doing this.

AG: Skoltech is one of the key drivers to rebuild the education system in Russia. Traditionally, universities educated people generally, but never taught students the profession of a scientific job. Skoltech marks a paradigm shift and now professors are giving students various tools to become professionals.

3. How important is Skoltech’s role in international collaborations?

AB: Skoltech was conceived as a global institute from the outset. Its outlook is accordingly international and focuses on bringing global technology advancements to Russia. Through Skoltech’s Centers for Research, Education and Innovation program, Skoltech will discover new technology concepts and generate intellectual properties that will have high market value in world markets.

ELW: You need to have the right level of both cooperation and competition. Compete for students and professors, but also collaborate. Many of the problems in Russia and worldwide can only be solved by cooperation: climate, drinking water, energy. You must develop structures and multidisciplinary research centers – like stem cells or nano-tech – which help the right people work together. But make sure you recruit the best people.

AK: Becoming a leader in collaborations with Russian and foreign universities, is one of Skoltech’s most important goals. To achieve that, you need to involve researchers who worked in and with western universities and laboratories and maintain contacts globally. In science, personal relationships are crucial.

3. What is the significance of the collaboration with MIT?

AK: When you build a completely new institute it is extremely useful to bring in well-known universities as mentors of sorts. MIT can offer an immensely experienced faculty, programs, courses, and extensive experience of building startups. The only question is to what extent is MIT positioned to share with us all this knowledge.

AB: MIT is one of the top institutes of technology in the United States and the world. It has gained its reputation through graduating top talent for all sectors of the global society, creating important scientific and technology discoveries and starting new business enterprises in many places around the world. It also has a wealth of experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in that has been recognized by Russia’s leaders as having high value to Russia in diversifying its economy.

ELW: The system of higher education in the US, where MIT and Caltech and other institutions operate, is highly impressive and innovative. That is why the cooperation with MIT is so crucial. It reminds all of us where and how to go.

4. How long before the Skoltech project starts paying off? How do you see its role expanding over the next five or six years?

ELW: Hard to say, as there are very few examples like this. This is a wonderful opportunity: building a university from scratch. You have to have the right mixture of senior and junior faculty but no hierarchy. Everyone needs to be a scientist. They key is not too many directors giving orders. Young people have great ideas. You have to let them thrive.

JES: The completion of a real campus is of utmost importance if Skoltech is to be able to deliver on its high ambitions. This is also essential to gain real momentum both to build up in-house research facilities and create a real student life. The possibility to create an attractive campus will imply many new possibilities in the next 5 years.

AB: Skoltech, to my knowledge, is the only institute designed ab initio to educate leaders with a solid grounding in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education at the graduate level and to integrate this education with experimental learning in the practices of innovation and entrepreneurship.

In the process of this learning, the students will be involved in frontier research. These graduates will be in very high demand around the world. A key issue is how to develop the incentives, career growth paths and innovative environments that will encourage them to build their careers in Russia.

5. Is Skoltech the kind of institute you would sign a check for in that capacity?

AK: Yes. I’m an optimist.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
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Seminar: A (Non-Random) Walk Down Entrepreneurial Alley

When: 22-09-2014 13:30

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

One of the biggest challenges science-based startups face is overcoming financial issues. In other words: the ‘show me the money’ problem. If this piques your curiosity, please join us for a seminar with Dr. Benoit Leleux, titled “A (Non-Random) Walk Down Entrepreneurial Alley”.

When: September 22, 2014; 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

Dr Benoit Leleux, guest speaker at the Skoltech seminar on entrepreneurship

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

In the talk Dr. Benoit Leleux will review his 25 years of research, practice and teaching in entrepreneurship around the world, focusing in particular on growth financing issues faced by technology firms. He will review quickly the findings of his 2008 book “Nurturing Science-Based Startups” based on 30+ award winning clinical studies and expand on his current and future research agenda.

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

Come Fly With Him

15/09/2014

Dr. Sergei K. Krikalev, cosmonaut and space explorer, during a talk with students and faculty at Skoltech

When Dr. Sergei K. Krikalev entered the lecture hall, a member of the audience turned to her friend and said in hushed voice: “here comes a legend”. This was not starry eyed hyperbole. There is ample evidence to support the choice of words.

As a cosmonaut, Krikalev completed six flights. He has spent more time in space than any other human: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes aboard MIR and the ISS. He was the first person ever to enter the International Space Station. A fluent English speaker, he is a living symbol of collaboration between superpowers. A quick web search yields images of him in a trademark NASA astronaut suit, embroidered with Russian and American flag patches. After he had retired from active duty as an astronaut in 2005, he held senior positions at the Russian space program. And on his free time he crisscrosses Russia, sharing his story with awestruck students – and their professors.

At the beginning of his Q &A session at Skoltech he directed a question at the audience.

“Should I assume you are technical experts or simply curious?”

“Both!”, a professor replied, extracting a smile out of the chiseled jawed spaceman. This turned out to be an honest response: queries from the crowd revealed varying degrees of experience and knowledge.

Bram Caplan, the university’s director of student affairs tested the veteran cosmonaut’s flexibility: “If you had 100 million dollars to invest in a space research project, what would you do with the money?”

Immediate response: “I’d try to get more money.” Then came a more thoughtful reply: “we need to build a new spacecraft and a space base that would support missions and supply parts for trips beyond what we’ve achieved so far “.

Saksupapchon Punyapat, a student from Thailand, smilingly observed that how questions about lessons learned always orbit around success. “But what have you learned from failure?”

Sergei Krikalev, cosmonaut and guest speaker at Skoltech, wears a training space suit at a NASA training in June 2004

Sergei Krikalev, cosmonaut and guest speaker at Skoltech, wears a training space suit during a NASA training in June 2004

“Let me say what I think is needed in order to have a better chance at achieving success. Know that your decisions and choices matter. and yes, you really do must study a lot. And if you want to join the space industry, you need to live in not the most comfortable conditions and learn to fly an aircraft and make sacrifices. Like I did. ”

Then there were more professional questions about vertical landing, the optimal number of crew members to be carried aboard a space vehicle, and the future challenges of design and engineering. And what about the differnce between government and private sectors’ involvement in space exploration?

“It has to be said: governments were there first,” Krikalev replied immediately and paused, as if resisting the temptation to say that ‘we were there first’.

He continued. “When things were risky and unsure and potentially very costly in terms of human lives and, less importantly but still crucially, money, the state took it upon itself to explore outer space. Only when things stabilized did the private sector join in. On the other hand ‘private’ means simplified and cheaper. There are less verification processes, and a better understanding of cost structures. As for Russia, we don’t see similar private activities here because our knowledge and procedures for defining costs are not as transparent as in the west. Then again, private western companies do not carry out manned missions. Not yet. The way we’re going to proceed from now in is to involve more private companies to solve parts of the missions, but not whole missions, especially not the risky ones – like a flight to Mars. When we don’t know how to enter the atmosphere or how to build a heat shield or how long a mission will take or how much it will cost – the government will shoulder all this risk.”

After 90 minutes and an ever growing stream of questions came the winning query: So how much would you pay to travel as a private space tourist?

“Hard to say, really. After all I got paid to fly to space.”

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

Seminar: “Manufacturing Technology And Economy: What’s Next?”

When: 16-09-2014 13:30

Where: Moscow School of Management, Rid de Janeiro lecture hall. Brazil

Manufacturing. Image courtesy of Chrysler Group

The next frontier of manufacturing will involve closing the gaps between customers and providers, linkages in global supply chain and the broad issue of sustainability argues professor Mitchell M. Tseng, our guest speaker at a seminar title “Manufacturing Technology And Economy: What’s Next?”.

When: September 16, 2014, 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Moscow School of Management, Rid de Janeiro lecture hall, (Brazil)

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

As a manufacturing technologist by training, I have been at the front row of sea change in manufacturing to witness the great expansion of production capability and capacity in the last four decades. In conjunction with information and communication technology (ICT) as well as globalization, the advance of manufacturing technology contributes to the dramatic improvement of human lives. Since the ability to produce determines a region’s quality of life, many countries have moved manufacturing to the top of the national agenda in the last few years.

In this presentation, we would like to discuss the next frontier of manufacturing. It includes closing the gaps between customers and providers, linkages in global supply chain and the broad issue of sustainability – not only environmental, but also economic and social sustainability. Hopefully, these discussions can lead to examine some fundamental issues in manufacturing that we need to take on with further innovation drives.

Prof Mitchell M. Tseng

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Mitchell M. Tseng is the Chair Professor and Director of Advanced Manufacturing Institute at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He started his career in developing key enabling manufacturing technologies for computer industry, some of which, including the diamond machining for polygons in laser printers, are still widely used. He has been working closely with industry with more than 100 projects to upgrade product design and manufacturing capabilities in companies. He worked in Xerox and Digital Equipment Corporation for two decades developing products, service systems and managing business transformation.

Prof Tseng is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Production Research (CIRP), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES). He is the recipient of LEAD Award from SME, Franz Edelman Laureate (INFORMS), and Outstanding Industrial Engineer (Purdue). He also holds faculty appointments in MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center, Nanshan Professor in School of Design, China Academy of Arts and Honorary Professor of Business and Management in Technical University of Munich, Ministry of Science and Technology Chair Professor in Feng Chia University (Taiwan).

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.