Digital Doctoral Traning Unit

Official Opening of Digital Doctoral Training 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:

• Modular Learning Lab (room 5301)
• Team Learning Lab (room 5303)
• Interdisciplinary Learning Lab (room 5307)

The MODEST 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

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 the Digital Doctoral Training 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