NPUA/IIAS R&D Unit

The ALL4R&D Project was presented during “FAIR of Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE projects targeting scientific research and development” (October 15, 17:00-18:00) of the #ERASMUSDAYS Event “Regulatory Framework of Doctoral Education” organized by Eurasia International University, October 14-16, 2021, Kotayk Province, Tsakhkadzor, Armenia.

At the FAIR, Director of Digital Technology Centre Ruben Aghgashyan presented the Project and the main results obtained so far, as well as distributed printed handouts. After the presentation, an additional panel discussion took place, during which an interested discussion around the Project results unfolded.

Official Opening of NPUA-IIAP Cooperative R&D Unit as a part of Digital Technology Centre took place during “Special Session on Digital Technologies in Erasmus+ Capacity Building Projects” of the workshop “Digital Technologies in Education and Management” at the 13th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT 2021), September 30, 2021, Yerevan, Armenia (csit.am/2021/index.php).

The event was attended by representatives of the National Erasmus+ Office in Armenia, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, the Ministry of High Technology Industry, the Ministry of Economy, universities of Armenia, the NPUA administration, leading specialists and heads of IT companies, professors, students, as well as guests from foreign universities.

Welcome addresses were made by Chairman of the NPUA Board of Trustees Hovik Musayelyan, NPUA Rector Gor Vardanyan, Deputy Minister of High Technology Industry Davit Sahakyan, Programme Coordinator of National Erasmus + Office in Armenia Lana Karlova, Head of the Board of Sponsors of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and Electronics Arsen Taroyan, and Director of Digital Technology Centre Ruben Aghgashyan.

Deputy Director of Science of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Vladimir Sahakyan, as well as Head of NPUA Information Security and Software Development Department Gevorg Margarov presented in details Hardware Capabilities and Infrastructure of the Unit, including:

• Open-Source Software Lab (room 5302)
• Modeling and Digital Content Lab (room 5306)
• Machine Learning Lab (room 5308)
• Cybersecurity Lab (room 5310)

The ALL4R&D Project was presented during “Special Session on Digital Technologies in Erasmus+ Capacity Building Projects” of the workshop “Digital Technologies in Education and Management” at the 13th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, CSIT 2021, September 27 – October 1, 2021, Yerevan, Armenia (csit.am/2021/index.php).

The event was attended by representatives of the National Erasmus+ Office in Armenia, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, the Ministry of High Technology Industry, the Ministry of Economy, universities of Armenia, the NPUA administration, leading specialists and heads of IT companies, professors, students, as well as guests from foreign universities.

Marine Usipyan
Lessons / 5
Duration / 90min

Ani Manukyan
Lessons / 5
Duration / 90min

Semantic Analysis of Multilingual Text and Semantic Network Rendering.

In the absence of special rules, texts representing a certain meaning are introduced by operators of different information systems in different ways. Usually, the problem of determining semantic equivalence is considered algorithmically unsolvable. At the level of individual software solutions, states and the world community as a whole, technologies are used that make it possible to implicitly transfer the function of comparing "names" to the computer operator, and present the result obtained in the form of a code. For business applications, in any case, algorithmically convenient search forms based on semantic analysis and fuzzy queries are used. Problems in this area have many potential applications such as information extraction, answering questions, generalizing documents, machine translation, building thesauri and semantic networks, language modelling, paraphrasing, etc.

Hardware and Software Cybersecurity Solutions for Internet of Things.

One of the top issues regarding the viability of the Internet of Things in the enterprise is how IoT data and devices will be secured. Indeed, IoT introduces several new architecture dynamics that traditional IT security administrators may not be accustomed to on such a large scale. And if security is not properly addressed or implemented, you run the risk of data loss and the possibility of introducing weak points on your network that can be used by hackers to infiltrate your entire infrastructure and gain control over your devices. Studies have shown that IoT device vendors are not taking security all that seriously and, therefore, it is actual to develop hardware and software security solutions at the system and user levels.

We are pleased to announce that as an effect of the successful All4R&D project framework we are now offering up to 50 tailored-made professional courses.
The courses are based on the assessed needs of students and professionals, as well as trends in industry. Moreover, they are co-created and are offered in joint collaboration of academic and business organizations from 6 countries (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Germany, Finland and Austria). Check out all the courses here!
Participants are allowed to attend courses from different disciplines. In an effort to give our best in ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants and participants we ask you to fill-in our questionnaire .

The opening of the Digital Technology Centre was the subject of a special report in the news program of the Armenian Public Television, (first channel), which aired on October 14, 2021. In short interviews with the NPUA Rector Gor Vardanyan, Director of Digital Technology Centre Ruben Aghgashyan and Head of Information Security and Software Development Department Gevorg Margarov, in particular, the main goals, objectives and prospects of sustainable development of NPUA/IIAP R&D Unit.

Watch the report for more information.

Dear students,
We are pleased to inform you that we have published the second Open Call for Students and Professionals, which you can find on the following link.

http://platform.all4rd.net/index.php/education/

NPUA/IIAP Cooperative R&D Unit. has open calls for researchers and companies in two new international research projects:

• Astronomical Objects Classification
• Performance Optimization System for Hadoop and Spark Frameworks

Duration of the research projects: 15 April 2021 – 15 April 2022
Target group

• Individuals – MSc or PhD Students
• Companies from IT industry

What we offer

• Hybrid HPC and BD infrastructures providing predictable execution of scientific applications using owner-centric HPC;
• Resource sharing Grid computing;
• On-demand Cloud computing paradigm
• Opportunity to work in international research team and improve research skills;
• Contacts with partner institutions from the industry sector, involved in project implementation.

Criteria for participation in the Research projects

• MSc or PhD student in Mathematics, Computer science or Physics;
• Software skills: Linux OS, Phyton, Shell programming;
• Basic knowledge on Big Data and Machine Learning
• English proficiency;
• Desire to learn and exchange with peers in an international environment;
• Create a profile and take active part of our collaborative-innovative platform.

How to apply

Individual researchers

• Motivation letter;
• Letter of reference for young researches working at companies.

Companies

• Motivation letter;
• Company profile

Registration deadline: 20/04/2021

Interested participants can submit documents ra e-mail: dtc-rdu-info@polytechnic.am.

Read more about the research projects

• Assessment and strengthening strategies of historical buildings – “Partizan” sport ground a case study
• Methodology for quality control and principles for repair of concrete structures