Research and international cooperation
The Artificial Intelligence Department (AI) is one of the best places in Ukraine for research and education in Artificial Intelligence field.
Internationalization is a main concept laid down in development strategy of the department from the beginning: from the curriculum developed within EU standards and approved by both Finnish and Ukrainian Ministries of Education to European international projects aimed at implementation of the procedures and tool for quality assurance of higher education and representation of the AI Department, NURE and Ukraine as a whole in the several COST network Actions within Horizon2020.
AI Department scientists undertake research in the following areas:
- Distributed Systems;
- Semantic Web, Semantic Technology and Web 4.0;
- Intelligent Web Mining;
- Big Data;
- Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems;
- Machine Learning;
- Data Mining in Cyber Security Systems;
- Database and Knowledge Base Management;
- Internet-based systems of electronic and mobile commerce;
- Cognitive Systems and Technologies;
- Computational Intelligence, adaptive neuro-, fuzzy-systems.
Researchers of the department enhance their professional development due to the regular trainings and participating in joint European projects; cooperate effectively with the best world scientists in the priority domains of Artificial Intelligence. Researchers of the department confirm their results through numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of the international conferences; give lectures in the universities of Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands as invited lecturers; realise research results in the product and services which is piloting in Ukraine and abroad; implement obtained results in the research-based Master and Doctoral education to train the mature graduates.
Applied projects of the scientists of the Department are implemented in numerous industrial projects of such world-known companies as Nokia, JSP, Tekes, Fingrid, TeliaSonera, TietoEnator, Metso Automation, ABB.
RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
Project «Deep Intelligent Optical and Radio Communication Networks» under Horizon2020.
Type of Action: MSCA-RISE-2020 – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
Grant Agreement #101008280 (DIOR)
Project duration is 48 months (2021 – 2024)
Coordinator: TAMPERE UNIVERSITY, FI (https://www.tuni.fi/fi)
Consortium:
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK (https://warwick.ac.uk/)
SKEIN LTD, UA (https://skein.co/)
INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES – IT, PT (https://www.it.pt/)
TURING INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, UK (https://turintech.ai/)
KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RADIO ELECTRONICS, UA (https://nure.ua/)
Project objectives:
- Processing the signal and network traffic optimization from analytical approaches to data-driven inferring, especially neural network (NN) based approaches.
- Developing the convolutional and recurrent NN models in optical fiber and radio communication networks to mitigate stochastic distortions, to optimise network lightpath and to facilitate network load allocation. Exploiting heterogeneous data analysis to build models for optical fibre and radio access channels and to estimate traffic load to optimise both the deployment and operations of optical and radio networks.
- Designing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) that facilitate future high-capacity optical and radio communications to enable a new age of intelligent communication networks beyond 5G.
Project “Cyber Defence for Intelligent Systems”, Contract #G5511 funded by NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS).
Project period: 24.05.2018 – 23.05.2021
Project participants:
Project Coordinator: Technical University – Sofia, BG.
ECAM-EPMI (Graduate School of Engineering), FR;
University of Jyvaskyla, FI;
Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, UA;
The general project objective is to develop a Proof of Concept of an operational tool for effective and real-time intelligent and resilient cyber defence in supply chains and logistics.
The specific project objectives include:
- to develop a proof of concept of Intelligent System for Resilient Cyber Defence in Supply Chains and Logistics supported by Cyber-physical systems (CPS) composed of network structures (connected by an appropriate interface), and periphery, composed of various connected smart modules (e.g., intelligent sensors and actuators, computer-human interfaces, computation units, databases, logistics units mechatronic systems, industry 4.0 modules );
- to develop a smart hybrid models for early detection and prevention of cyber threats and attacks in CPS trained on data obtained from CPS smart modules;
- to raise awareness of methods and tools for intelligent and resilient cyber defence in supply chains and logistics.
HORIZON2020 / COST Actions
Keystone – COST Action IC1302 “Semantic KEYword-based Search on sTructured data sOurcEs” is network project of programme COST within Horizon2020, aimed at enabling breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products and thereby contributing to building Europe’s research and innovation capacities. COST contributes to the objective of strengthening the scientific and technological bases of the European Research Area (ERA) by encouraging researchers to share, create and apply knowledge. Researchers of the Department became members of Management Committee of this COST Action and represents NURE and Ukraine in this network.
Project period 13.10.2013 – 14.10.2017
The project results: joint publications, short-term mobility grants for short-term scientific mission to partner universities within the established network, studying at the summer school and participating in project conferences. http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ict/IC1302?management
SAREP – COST Action CA1530 “Study Abroad Research in European Perspective” (within Horizon2020) is transnational project involving 100+ researchers across Europe which runs from 1 May 2016 – 30 April 2020. Project aims to explore the nature, experiences, benefits and limitations of study abroad in the context of increasing international education and study abroad at both European and international level. To enhance multilingual development and intercultural awareness among citizens of contemporary Europe the project includes researchers who bring cross- and inter-disciplinary insights working on through both quantitative and qualitative analysis, drawing on wide-ranging methodological approaches and tools of investigation. Associate professor Golovianko M. is a Management Committee member of this COST Action and represents NURE and Ukraine in this network. http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15130?management
INTREPID – COST Action TD1408 “Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding cycles (within Horizon2020) is an international network with the overall aim to better understand how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary research in Europe, in order to enhance our capacity to meet contemporary global (urban) challenges characterised by increasing complexity and uncertainty. Associate professor Golovianko M. participates in the project as a member of the working group focused on the interdisciplinary urban research (SmartCity) and related social challenges.
Project runs till 27.04.2019.
Academic mobility projects Erasmus+ KA107
Our opportunities for academic mobility of students and teachers:
University of Jaen, Spain (https://www.ujaen.es/)
Tallinn University of Technology, Естонія (https://www.taltech.ee/en)
Grande Ecole d’ingénieurs généraliste, ЕСАМ-ЕРМІ, France (https://www.ecam-epmi.fr/international/).
Participants personal stories
PROJECTS AIMED AT CAPACITY BUILDING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The project “Academic Response to Hybrid Threats – WARN” (610133-EPP-1-2019-1-FI-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) funded by grant of EC Erasmus+ Capacity Building of Higher Education aims at raising awareness and resilience of society to hybrid threats through academic means.
During three years (15.11.2019-14.11.2022) inter-faculty team including experts from Artificial Intelligence and Economic Cybernetics and Economic Security Management Departments together with other UA and EU consortium members coordinated by Finnish University of Jyväskylä will contribute to the development of the new interdisciplinary modules aimed at countering hybrid threats.
“Joint Multidisciplinary training program on Entrepreneurship in the field of artificial intelligence for industry 5.0 – JoInME” (#2021-1-FR01-KA220-HED-000032254) is the project financed by Erasmus+ program of the Strategic Partnership Action (01/11/2021 – 30/04/2024).
Under the terms of the funding program Ukrainian partners can participate in this project type only if there is a detailed justification of existing capacity and experience of UA partner. Our role in this project is justified by many years of cooperation in joint teaching the course “Commercialization of Intelligent Systems” with the French partner ECAM-EPMI Graduate School of Engineering Cergy. The project aims at developing a methodology for entrepreneurship education in the in cutting-edge industry in cooperation with academic and industrial partners from the EU. For developing the methodology, the Adversarial Learning technique (the methods are developing within the WARN project) will be used among other approaches. JoInME on NURE Website.
Developing the curriculum “Intelligent Decision Support System” was a precursor of the current Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) and became the first and fundamental project of the AI Department in 1995 which was financed by Finnish Academy of Science and became the first curriculum of KNURE which was developed within European standards and approved by partner universities of Finland and The Netherlands. Directorate for Education and Culture of European Commission recognized the joint Ukrainian-Finnish Double-Degree programme as the best international programme in Finland and recommended to study its experience for key Ukrainian policy-makers in the field of education and science who works on the higher education reform.
The result of that project was implemented within the next Tempus projects (Development of New Framework for the M.Sc. Thesis Work and Double Degree Diploma Programme) and maintain the sustainable development of the AI Department till present time providing the high competition among future students (https://www.nure.info/universitet-hnure/specializacii/specialnost-122-kompyuternye-nauki/105-iskusstvennyy-intellekt-fakultet-kn.html) and realizing in our alumni http://ai.nure.ua/en/our-pride.html.
Portals as Collective Awareness Platforms
We developed and implemented a semantic technology for creation of portals as platforms for transparent collaboration of multiple actors, accumulation and sharing of their information and quality assurance of their activity.
The technology is based on the state-of-the art solutions; it is universal and applicable to a wide range of domains and industries operating with numerous heterogeneous resources and requiring quality assurance of internal processes based on the resources` evaluation.
Such Web portals’ architecture can become implementation of the Collective Awareness Platforms (CAP) for integration of information, services, and infrastructure across a seamless and easy-to-navigate Web interface.
The first portal pilot was implemented for higher education.
Semantic quality assurance portal for higher education (http://portal.dovira.eu/ and its English version http://portal.dovira.eu/en) is a platform for providing with information (knowledge) about Ukrainian higher education and its resources. The portal helps establish a higher quality of communication between various HE stakeholders by providing them a forum to contribute HE quality information and to perform quality monitoring collaboratively.
Portal provides a technical means for: composing, viewing and publishing ranks based on the facts registered in the Portal (personal achievements of the registered staff). Each ranking is performed on-the-fly from a user’s request. The Portal allows creating and applying different value systems in the form of flexible multidimensional and multicontextual HE-quality indicators weighted by their importance to the ranking query. Thus, each user can evaluate the relative quality of some HE resources from different points of view (representing, for instance, different stakeholders or different world-ranking systems). Portal allows registering and storing all types of higher educational resources and their proofs as well as generating dynamically user’s CV and personal Web-sites with user registered achievements.
About the portal opportunities implemented in support of the quality assurance system of higher education you can get know in popular form from the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ8r5MqDLs4 (in Ukrainian).
To get know the technical features of the portal organization in details, manuals on its use for both users and developers as well as other supporting materials can be found on the link http://portal.dovira.eu/Help.
At the end of course all students obtained the Certificates signed both Universities and provides students with earned credits in terms of ECTS. This programme is unique business-incubator for young and promising start-up (university-based) companies and is a successful example of so called “home mobility”. It also promotes the development of the intercultural relations and integration process.
NURE students defense their business project before Ukrainian and French teachers
In 2008 the programme extended to the new qualitative level. French students visited KNURE (AI Department) within the students exchange programme. French and Ukrainian lecturers as well as top-managers of the leading IT-companies supervised development and defence of the student business-plans of real product / service for IT field.
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) https://www.jyu.fi/
University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/
Ostfalia University of Applied Science http://www.ostfalia.de/
University of Coimbra (Portugal) http://www.uc.pt/
Une école de la I-Management (France) www.itescia.fr
Graduate School of General Engineering (France) http://www.ecam-epmi.fr/
Vrije University of Amsterdam www.vu.nl
Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) http://www.tuke.sk/
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education http://www.enqa.eu/
University of Jaen, Spain http://www.ujaen.es/serv/vicint/home/index
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (https://www.taltech.ee/en)
ESAM-ERMI Higher School of Engineering, Cergi, France (https://www.ecam-epmi.fr/international/).
Reviews of AI Department and its achievements in the media
– at the site of European Delegation of European Commission in Ukraine: http://ec.europa.eu/delegations/ukraine/documents/eurobulletin/200809_uk.pdf
– about using of the TRUST projects results and Portal on quality assurance of higher education:
http://www.liga.net/opinion/238275_reforma-vysshego-obrazovaniya-shag-vpered-i-dva-nazad.htm
– http://gazeta.zn.ua/EDUCATION/zona-samoobmana-_.html
– about French-Ukrainian EVV program which was ranked as one of the best international Ukrainian training programs in 2011 by Focus magazine: http://focus.ua/charts/180875/
Information about AI Department on the site of Finnish University: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/