Summer is a great time to relax and improve your professional skills. Therefore, we open the reception of applications to the
Summer School of Machine Learning , which will be held in St. Petersburg from 2 to 15 August with the support of ITMO University. Applications are accepted until July 23!

Students of the School who will cope with the test task and successfully pass the competitive selection will receive a lot of positive emotions, new knowledge and opportunities for further growth.
Lectures at the School will be read by celebrities and brilliant experts in the field of machine learning:
- Björn V. Schuller - Professor and teacher of machine learning at universities such as the University of Augsburg (Germany), Imperial College London (United Kingdom), etc.
- Haysem Kaya - lecturer at the Namik Kemal University in Tekirdag; an expert in the recognition of emotions in uncontrolled conditions; repeated winner INTERSPEECH
- Potapov Aleksey Sergeevich - professor of ITMO University; Winner of the International Conference "Automatic Target Recognition"
In practical exercises, students will immediately be given the opportunity to apply the studied methods and algorithms of deep learning for analyzing audiovisual data and for recognizing emotions.
We will offer the best students work in the research department of the MDGs, a group of IT companies that is a leader in the processing and analysis of audio-video information, synthesis and speech recognition.
The school’s doors are open to senior students from Russia and the Republic of Belarus, as well as young professionals who are proficient in Python, can boast of the experience of using modern machine learning methods, and also have a great desire to develop in the field of audio and video analytics. The possibility of participation of candidates from other countries will be considered individually.
Education is free! Accommodation at the ITMO University dormitory is paid for by the school organizers, and the most distinguished by the results of the test task will be reimbursed for transportation costs.
Registration and acceptance of test tasks are carried out
on the school website and will last until July 23, 2018.
Organizers:
MDG GroupSaint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and OpticsAll questions you can ask in
Telegram or the project curator:
Isaev Ilya Vladimirovich
+7 (981) 834 40 99
ivisaev@corp.ifmo.ru