The modern world is changing every second ⏱️, and at the intersection of linguistics and IT 🧠💻, the professions of the future are emerging. The 2025/2026 academic year was a real technological breakthrough ⚡ for the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems at NTU ‘KhPI’.
We’ve proven that our students don’t just study theory — they create innovations that work right here and now 🛠️. Why is studying and developing your skills with the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems your guaranteed ticket to the future 🎟️✨? Let’s look back at our key achievements, which open the door to a world of great opportunities:
🎓 Your passport to global science
Our lecturers and postgraduate students set scientific trends not only in Ukraine but also worldwide 🌐🔬.
🌟 Postgraduate student **Anzhelika Vorzhevytina** was named ‘Best Young Scientist at NTU “KhPI” 2025’.
📑 Senior Lecturer **Arseniy Khaziev** successfully defended his PhD thesis.
🇺🇸 Professor **Natalia Sharonova** supervised a new PhD graduate and published a guide on Amazon in the US!
👩🔬 Head of Department **Nadiya Babkova** represented the Institute of Chemical Engineering at the city’s STEM show to mark Women in Science Day, inspiring a new generation of researchers.
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🌍 Education without borders and international partnerships
We create opportunities for real-world experience and international mobility 🤝✈️.
📚 Thanks to our partnership with UCU, our students have been working on practical linguistic projects based on the national ‘GRAK’ corpus under the supervision of Associate Professor Maria Shvedova.
🎤 The results of our research are being presented on the world stage, notably at the LREC 2026 international conference!
🇪🇺 What’s more, our department is responsible for the Ukrainian component of the large-scale European project PressMint.
🇫🇷 And to draw inspiration from European culture, our lecturers joined the Bastille Day celebrations in Kharkiv alongside the French Ambassador.
💼 Kick-start your career whilst still studying
Our students gain skills that can be put to immediate use 💸📈.
🏢 This year, students undertook real-world translation placements in business and manufacturing.
🏛️ Master’s student **Arseniy Lukashevsky** has completed a prestigious six-month internship at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine!
🧠 We have also launched a unique interdisciplinary educational programme at the intersection of psychology and AI.
🖥️ To ensure learning is as effective as possible, we are constantly embracing digitalisation — Associate Professor **Maria Shvedova** led a methodological seminar on the latest approaches to creating interactive online courses.
🔥 STEAM Career Guidance Drive
We share knowledge and set hearts alight ⚡❤️!
🏫 Over the course of the year, the IKS team held dozens of brilliant sessions with school pupils in Kharkiv (from traditional lyceums to the legendary underground school 🚇), Lyubotyn, Balakliya, Merefa and other parts of the country.
🤖💬 We taught young people, in a simple and fun way, how to create their own ChatGPT models, recognise psycholinguistic influences and translate memes that even artificial intelligence struggles to decipher 🎭🤪!
💻 Student buzz, practical experience and recognition
Our students create AI products right from their first year 🚀📱!
🇬🇧 First-year students developed creative linguistics projects in English.
🐍 Third-year students wrote real software in Python for NLP tasks.
🤖 Fifth-year students mastered machine learning.
🎓 The year culminated in a stellar defence of bachelor’s and master’s theses. Incidentally, the master’s projects by our graduates **Yelyzaveta Lubenets** and **Viktoria Masliy** won silver awards at the university-wide competition 🥈🏆!
Do you want to be among those who shape the future, harness artificial intelligence and open up the whole world to yourself 🗺️💫? Join the IKS family! Your successful journey starts here 🚀🛸✨!