About YSDA
Founded in 2007, YSDA has trained outstanding engineers and researchers. The programs are built on deep technical training, applied research, and collaboration with global experts.
The programs are led by leading scientists and industry practitioners. This allows YSDA to teach methods and approaches used in contemporary research and industry across machine learning, large-scale data analysis, and applied mathematics.
YSDA is intended for students with a solid technical background to reach the level expected in leading technology companies and research labs.
We aim to support highly motivated individuals who can contribute to academia, industry, and applied scientific fields
How YSDA evolved
- Launch support: ML School in Uzbekistan; AI Engineering MS Program at Middle East Technical University (METU)
- New track: AI for Scientific Research
- Summer School: Federated Learning focus
- Online intensive: LLM Scaling Week (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia)
- Content partnership: AI360 initiative (expert materials and mentor support)
- Student intensive: generative speech technologies (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
- Workshops: machine learning at Russian-Armenian University (RAU) using YSDA materials
- Online intensive: Computer Vision Week (Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan)
- Online workshops: Saudi Electronic University
- Generative modeling intensive at Yerevan State University (YSU)
- Curriculum development partnership: co-developed master’s program Software for High-Load Systems for ITMO University
- Online intensive: GPT Week (Armenia)
- Guest presentations: Bootcamp Qualification Contest (Serbia)
- Workshops: machine learning and Python at Russian-Armenian University (RAU) using YSDA materials
YSDA expands to Novosibirsk
Educational resource: online machine learning textbook covering foundational theory, practical methods, and recent research
New track: for applicants with coding experience and backgrounds in industrial development or scientific research in Data Science
Joint program: Economics & Data Analysis with the New Economic School (NES)
Curriculum update and expansion: revised programs; YSDA expands to Nizhny Novgorod
Online transition: first machine learning course delivered online
International conference: machine learning conference (Berlin)
New track: Big Data introduced as part of program expansion
- International conference: first data analysis conference is held in Moscow
- YSDA expands to Novosibirsk (later part of the Computer Science Center)
- YSDA expands to Minsk; Yekaterinburg
- Partnership launch: Computer Science (CS) Center in Saint Petersburg in collaboration with JetBrains
Curriculum expansion: program grows to 29 courses; top-performing students gain access to internships at Yandex
- Program launch: first cohort in Data Analysis (80 students)
- New track: Computer Science
If you have any questions
please contact the program coordinator at ysda-info@yandex-team.com
