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The Polytechnic University hosted the first Digital Hackathon, a joint forum for developers in the field of industrial AI, organized by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and Norilsk Nickel’s leading production complex in the Murmansk region, Kola MMC.
The hackathon participants searched for dependencies in an anonymous dataset of hydrometallurgical production using both classical machine learning methods and neural networks. The main result of each team’s work was a reasonably chosen method that has the potential for implementation and use in the company.
The expert jury from SPbPU included teachers of the Higher School of Cyber-Physical Systems Management: Professor Vyacheslav Shkodyrev, Professor Galina Malykhina, Associate Professor Vladimir Khokhlovsky, Senior Lecturer Vitaly Oleynikov. Kola MMC was represented by experts in Data Science and industrial AI: Evgeny Batz, Alexey Kozlov, Ivan Dublensky, Yaroslav Kraynyuchenko. The event was organized by 1st year Master’s student of IMMiT Konstantin Mashyanov.
My journey at Kola MMC began back in 2022 with an industrial internship at the Profstart enterprise. After that, I dreamed of uniting my beloved employer and my alma mater to create a synergy of science and business that can provide incredible potential for all parties, which we were able to see at the hackathon. Young specialists demonstrated new effective approaches in industrial AI, wise mentors from the university updated the current requests of the business customer and shared their scientific expertise, and respected experts from the industrial partner gave honest, practice- and business-oriented feedback. I believe that through our joint efforts we did not just make a hackathon, but laid the foundation for a platform of the future, capable of generating the maximum effect for three parties with one event: university – student – business, – shared his impressions Konstantin Mashyanov.
Five teams made it to the final defense. The hackathon can be considered international, as students from seven different countries worked on solving the problems.
The experts highly appreciated the level of preparation. The hackathon became a real professional test of the competencies of young developers, as well as an initiation into the exciting world of business. In just 10 minutes of defense, the participants had to not only demonstrate the depth of technical development, but also “sell” their solution to a real business, proving its viability and economic effect.
A hackathon is not just solving a task and defending it, it is a real challenge of adult life, when there is no single correct linear solution to a problem, and the result of teamwork must be presented in an interesting, academically correct, scientifically developed and practice-oriented way. I believe that the teams managed to achieve exactly this result. Also today we are on the threshold when we need to cultivate competent developers capable of implementing domestic solutions that will provide an economic effect and high quality of work at real domestic enterprises to ensure Russia’s technological leadership, – shared SPbPU professor Vyacheslav Shkodyrev.
After the defense, the experts gave feedback to the participants, talked about which industrial AI models are used in real production, and also said parting words.
Of course, in real development, it is important to apply various approaches and methods for a more accurate result, focused on the target function of the algorithm. There are no ideal models, any model is an abstraction, so it is important to lower a theoretically working method to a practical task. And in order to really progress, it is necessary to “cook” in the community of professionals, for example, attend events of specialized communities, which are becoming more and more every year, as well as solve problems in the chosen field on specialized sites and participate in competitions, – added AI expert of Kola MMC Alexey Kozlov.
First place — team «NorAI». The guys demonstrated, along with classical methods of machine learning, a neural network solution that has sufficient values of MAE, R2 Score, MSE metrics for implementation in industry. Team members: Tatevik Virabyan, Anna Bakalova, Shilpa, Yaroslav Votintsev (team captain), Mengran Li, masters of the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering. Second place — «mixAI». Team members: Paul Jean-Zouai (team captain), Oko Charles Chukwuebuka, Azmat Ullah, Luo Weizi, masters of the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering. Third place — «Fun and Nuts». Team members: Daniil Simonovsky, Maxim Pisarik (team captain), Evgeny Rubtsov.
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