UrFU Student Startup Recognized as the Best in Russia

💯 Ural Federal University has once again proved its status as a leading hub for youth innovation in Russia.

The IRIT-RtF team, presenting the "Fusion AI" project, took first place, winning the top award at the finals of the All-Russian "Startup as a Diploma" thesis competition. Creators Kirill Belotserkovets and Gleb Mozglyakov pitched an intelligent system to the expert jury that tracks the health and behavior of farm animals using computer vision and neural networks.

Two additional UrFU student startups also excelled in the finals, securing spots among the top 15 projects nationwide and winning special awards from the competition's partners.

These included: Elizaveta Veprova’s (INSM) project, "Speech Analytics with Voice Recognition and an AI Mentor for Medical Clinics", and Sergey Pyatygin’s ( IFT) project on reagent-free mine water treatment.