The participant of the CASE-IN championship from Yekaterinburg received the prestigious Maslyukov scholarship.

Olga Pichugova, a second-year graduate student at the Ural Energy Institute of UrFU, became a Yu.D. Maslyukov Scholarship holder. She is one of ten students from all over the country who won the competition for researchers in the field of the military-industrial complex. For the second year in a row, UrFU students have become fellows named after a famous politician.

Olga actively participates in national and international conferences as a speaker, has more than 20 publications in conference proceedings indexed in the Scopus and RSCI scientific citation databases, as well as in Russian and foreign journals. Since the first year, he has been participating annually in the International CASE-IN Engineering Championship in the field of Electric Power Engineering and is a multiple winner of the qualifying and semi-final stages, as well as a finalist in 2022.

"At the moment, I have two areas of research interests. The first is the application of machine learning in disaster management to ensure the sustainability of energy systems. The second is the study and analysis of the parameters of the technological functioning of hydroelectric power plants in Russia and other countries in order to find a reference hydroelectric unit: one that provides the largest amount of electricity generation with the lowest pressure and lowest water consumption. The result that my supervisor and I are striving for is the development of a model (virtual and physical) of such a hydraulic unit," Olga Pichugova said.

The competition is organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. In the academic year 2024-25, scholarship holders will receive financial support in the amount of 15 thousand rubles per month. The scholarship is awarded for 12 months.

Reference. The Y. D. Maslyukov Scholarship is awarded annually to students for achievements in academic and scientific activities in certain specialties related to the military-industrial complex.

Yuri Maslyukov is a Russian statesman and politician who has made a significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the country.

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