Altai State University celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Olga Krotova, a teacher at the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics, creates and implements scientific projects, teaches people of different ages programming and artificial intelligence technologies.
She told the newspaper correspondent about the educational program for additional education in artificial intelligence, which she developed together with the teachers of her department.
– My colleagues and I developed the educational program “Technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Visualization and Data Analysis”, it successfully passed the selection for participation in the “Digital Professions” project, and now we are remotely providing training to citizens from various regions of our country in the field of artificial intelligence and data analysis.
The federal project “Personnel for the Digital Economy” is aimed at providing the labor market with IT specialists. At the same time, much attention is paid to education in the project. As part of the “Personnel for the Digital Economy” project, the “Digital Professions” project is being implemented, which gives the opportunity to any citizen of the Russian Federation with a higher or secondary vocational education to master additional professional education programs in areas in demand in the digital economy (big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, quantum technologies, and others) with a 50% discount. That is, the citizen pays only half of the cost of training, and the second is paid by the state.
In addition, Olga Krotova is head of the “Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Everyone” program at the Altai State University center “House of Scientific Collaboration named after Viktor Vereshchagin.”
– The educational program “Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Everyone” was developed by Intel for schoolchildren and students of any field of study. This program has an interesting name and fully justifies it. It really is for everyone: complex things are explained in simple language, with examples and in a playful way. This program is not aimed at training developers of artificial intelligence systems, it aims to prepare the new generation to interact with artificial intelligence. By the way, training under the program is conducted not only at the DNA center. In 2021, we held a summer school program for first- and second-year students of IMIT. We plan to hold such schools regularly and invite students from other fields to participate.
Olga Krotova participates in large-scale scientific projects of mathematicians at Altai State University on the use of big data in biology, solving problems in the field of bioinformatics.
– Biologists pose many interesting problems for us, she says. Now, for example, we will create a smart information system for storing data on the biodiversity of our region and process it for the Tigireksky Nature Reserve. At the moment, there is only a cadastre, where our scientists manually record species diversity. Our final product will also be useful for educational purposes: students will be able to visit the system, read the information and, possibly, add to it. Some of our students are also at the beginning of creating a virtual laboratory – a map with the territorial location of animal and plant species. There is another project that I would like to start soon – analysis of micro- and macro-objects using computer vision. The Altai Nature Reserve takes photographs using camera traps. These shots are taken all the time, but the photographs do not always contain animals, and they are not always clear and of high quality. And manually reviewing these numerous frames can be time-consuming. A program based on computer vision will have to identify the animal in a photo in good quality and sort the archive. This will reduce mechanical work and move on to practical, professional work.