Additional professional education courses

Image analysis is a field of applied mathematics that studies methods for extracting useful information from images. Image analysis is closely related to image processing and includes tasks such as searching for objects of a given shape, selecting borders, improving images, segmentation, and tracking, and quantifying image areas. These tasks are found in microbiology, medicine, astronomy, robotics, security and tracking systems, and other areas of science and technology that deal with digital images.
During the course, You will review the main tasks of image analysis, learn classical and modern methods for selecting object boundaries in images, methods for improving images and eliminating noise, and get acquainted with neural network architectures used in image analysis.

The course is designed to learn the data-driven approach, which is to design and improve products and services based on data: research, tests, and hypothesis testing. Course participants are introduced to the tools, methods, and tasks of machine learning that are used and arise when following this approach. In the course, students will acquire the basic practical skills and basic information on the creation, evaluation, and operation of models based on machine learning methods in applied problems.

The use of project management is widely used in the creation of engineering, socio-technical, and software systems to reduce the project implementation time and obtain the required level of quality within the planned resources. The project management methodology can also be applied in the educational process, which will reduce the load on the teacher and increase the flexibility of the educational process. We will discuss flexible project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum) that have found popularity among software developers, and consider the features of their application and differences from the traditional project management methodology (waterfall).

The program is designed to introduce students to modern mathematical methods for formulating mathematical models and building their analytical solutions for both nonlinear partial differential equations and nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Applications of nonlinear differential equations for various fields of science, including, first of all, physics, biology, and Economics, are considered. Students are introduced to modern methods of building analytical solutions to various mathematical models using software packages.

News, recommendations, search engines, and media services are an integral part of our lives. Each system is based on mechanisms for storing and processing large amounts of data. Big Data is also the basis for creating advanced intelligent systems and an essential artifact of the exponential growth of the volume of stored information in the world. This course will introduce you to the basics of modern Big Data processing technologies: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, Kubernetes, et al.

Now it is difficult to imagine the modern educational process without using information and communication technologies. Cloud services, online resources, EdTech solutions, and streaming platforms are becoming an integral part of the learning process. The approach to learning becomes individualized. All this makes digital literacy one of the key competencies of a modern teacher. This course will introduce you to various digital services that allow you to diversify the educational process and optimally build interaction with students.

The lack of timely accessibility of the required amount of information from the patient's medical history can lead to significant and possibly critical delays in diagnosis and treatment. Patient-oriented medical information systems will help to guarantee the control and safe and reliable management of medical data obtained from several hospitals, which is relevant, in particular, for patients with actively progressive as well as chronic diseases. Medical data includes personal data of the patient, therefore, it is necessary to ensure information security throughout the life cycle of such data, in particular, maintaining the confidentiality of information constituting a medical secret.

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, the educational process takes place in an online format, we also exchange valuable documents by e-mail and instant messengers. We process students' personal data, conduct tests using Google forms and use cloud services. This course will introduce you the basic rules that you must follow in order to minimize the risk of becoming the target of an attacker.