Students presented chatbot prototypes for Rosatom at the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage

Today, Tomsk Polytechnic University hosted the qualifying stage of the new direction of the Student League the international engineering championship "CASE-INMore than 10 teams from Tomsk and Tyumen presented their solutions to the case developed by Rosatom specialists.

"TPU is very proud to host this championship. "CASE-IN" not only opens doors for you to the best companies in the world, but most importantly, it changes educational approaches and the educational paradigm.

Today we understand that engineering education should be practice-oriented, aimed at solving real problems of enterprises. And it is very good that today's theme of the championship — "Digital Transformation" — is being raised at TPU. We are transforming our university, we believe that digitalization is the future of our university. We believe that every engineer should have, in addition to deep professional skills, also supra-professional ones, which include digital competencies.

"CASE-IN" is an international championship, so the competition between the participants is very high. You will face equally talented and ambitious guys, so I wish you good luck, I wish you a worthy representation of Tomsk Polytechnic University.", — the first vice-rector of TPU, acting head of the School of Basic Engineering Training addressed the participants Denis Tchaikovsky.

In addition, 12 teams from Tomsk Polytechnic University and Tyumen Industrial University took part in the qualifying stage (they presented their solutions online). To solve the case "From innovative systems to digital technologies". The assignment was developed by the specialists of JSC "Grinatom", the General Service Center of Rosatom. In accordance with its terms, the participants of the course presented a prototype of a chatbot capable of conducting a dialogue in natural language, recognizing user requests for data, receiving data using software robots (RPA) and transmitting the received data in the form of a dialogue using natural language processing tools.

According to the results of the qualifying stage, the first place was taken by the team from TIU "Xcode". The second and third places went to TPU students (the "Easyot" and "Perzeptrone" teams). The teams that took the first and second places will participate in the championship finals. It will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow.

According to the director of the branch of JSC "Grinatom" in the city of Seversk Alexey Rykov the topic of the case study fully corresponds to the current directions of the industry development. Last year, for example, a unified digital strategy was adopted that combines steps to accelerate digital transformation in the nuclear industry. It includes a number of very important tasks that Rosatom sets for IT industry specialists: internal corporate IT systems, working with big data, virtual reality technologies, and so on.

"Working at Rosatom is a good opportunity for IT specialists to gain unique experience and knowledge. This international championship is very important for us. Moreover, its participants are even more important to us, as such a step forward between employers and students is bearing fruit," he stressed.

Source: TPU