In 2021, there will be a new master’s degree program “Digital data analysis technologies for sustainable development of the regions of North and Central Asia"

The program is aimed at training specialists with in-depth study of methods of spatial analysis, mathematical modeling and forecasting the dynamics of natural and socio-economic processes, as well as GIS technologies. The range of applied tasks of the graduate includes the analysis of climatic changes, extreme climatic events and the risks of their occurrence (drought, flooding, fires), various, including extreme, social phenomena based on the processing of remote sensing data (ERS), big data and heterogeneous data, collected from various sources (statistics, opinion polls, social media data, etc.).

In addition, the program includes training in methods for processing ground monitoring data (weather stations, lysimetric stations) and data obtained from unmanned aerial vehicles. The program focuses on the formation of competencies in the development of digital technologies for analyzing data of various nature (socio-economic, climatic, spatially distributed and local, data sets of various dimensions and sources of their receipt), the use of digital technologies in information and analytical activities, in decision support systems for the implementation of sustainable development programs for the regions of North and Central Asia as a territory of potential employment of a graduate. Also, special attention is paid to the formation of general cultural competencies, taking into account the specifics of the development of the Greater Altai regions, as well as a complex of general and specific professional competencies, the development of project-oriented skills and the skills of conducting interdisciplinary research of students in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education.

The leaders of the master's program are:

Elena Ponkina, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics, IMIT, Altai State University

Andrey Bondarovich, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic Geography and Cartography, Institute of Geography, Altai State University

Markhaba Karmenova, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Modeling and Information Technologies, Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan State University (Kazakhstan)