Artificial intelligence and machine learning in management and decision-making

Applied computer science is a field of study that forms comprehensive competences in intelligent methods of information processing, construction and use of databases, methods for extracting knowledge from data, modern software systems and programming methods for data analysis, methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning, knowledge management systems, and the use of these tools for effective management of modern IT-based enterprise.

Practical skills:

• enterprise data management, including development of databases and knowledge bases, creation of subject area ontologies;
• data processing by statistical analysis methods, machine learning artificial intelligence;
• text processing and formalization;
• construction of predictive models, classification of objects from different areas, revealing of hidden patterns, etc;
• decision-making based on data mining;
• development in R and Python;
• using of Big Data technologies.

The benefits of education. You will be able to:

• move to a new stage of working with information using Big Data technologies;
• master new areas of business, with the ability to work with artificial intelligence technologies helping the company to gain an advantage over its competitors;
• form an opinion on «obscure» artificial intelligence and machine learning, gaining knowledge, skills and abilities to work with the latest technologies;
• continue your post-graduate education.

Relevance of education.

Specialists in the field of applied computer science provide businesses in all sectors of the economy: finance, trade and manufacturing enterprises, civil service structures, etc. In today's innovative economy with a constantly growing level of informatization, applied informatics is one of the most in-demand professions, and all the more so when combined with the latest modern, efficient and relevant competencies.

Features of the implementation of the educational process at VVSU:

• education in the practical and research complex;
• using of modern cloud infrastructure in the learning process;
• highly qualified teaching staff (doctors and candidates of science, most of whom have honorary titles and awards, have patents for inventions, make a significant contribution to the development of scientific research);
• orientation of the educational process of Master''s degree program towards research and innovation activities;
• development and implementation of technical projects as part of students' diploma design by order of enterprises and organizations in Vladivostok and Primorsky Krai;
• organizing internships at leading enterprises and organizations in the city;
• participation in the real IT-projects of the university in the process of education;
• practice-oriented education with a focus on business activities;
• application of modern information technologies in education. The teaching laboratories of the department are equipped with modern computer and specialized equipment and software (equipment for «Smart House», telecommunication equipment, server virtualization and workplace virtualization clusters, etc.);
• application of modern forms of education (case-studies, presentations, trainings, business games, test control of knowledge);
• availability of a conference hall equipped with a special conference-communication and congress system of the latest generation, which allows to listen to the lectures of the world leading universities and to participate in the discussions with the students of the foreign universities in the on-line mode;
• using of e-learning technologies (face-to-face classes + students' independent work with e-learning courses and other educational resources placed in the electronic educational environment of VVSU).