The Social and Cognitive Informatics Laboratory (SCILA), established in November 2019, is the successor of the Laboratory for Internet Studies. SCILA’s interdisciplinary team seeks to investigate and model interaction of individual humans and groups with information, knowledge, respective technologies and with other humans using these technologies. The research strongly relies both on the knowledge from social, behavioral and cognitive sciences and on the cutting-edge approaches from computer science, including machine learning and computational linguistics.
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A joint project of HSE University–St Petersburg and the University of Nizwa (Oman) has won the HSE International Academic Cooperation contest. Researchers from both countries are developing PatientFlow-AI, a system of AI agents for medicine. Find out why the HSE University–St Petersburg project sparked an interest in the Omani scientists and how the partnership will develop in this interview with Sergei Koltsov, leading research fellow at the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics.
October 20
Deputy Head of Laboratory for SOcial and Cognitive Informatics Elena Artemenko took part in the 76th annual conference of the International Comminication Association (ICA) in Cape Town, South-African Republic.
June 22
In April 2026, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence Applications (ISAA 2026) was held at the University of Nizwa in the Sultanate of Oman. The event was co-organised by HSE University, the University of Nizwa, and the University of Technology and Applied Sciences–Ibri. Researchers from HSE University were among the key speakers at the conference.
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April 20
Researchers at the HSE Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics in St. Petersburg, led by Sergey Koltcov, have learned to quickly reduce the size of neural networks without losing quality using statistical physics methods.
November 25, 2025
Olessia Koltsova, Director of the Social and Cognitive Informatics Laboratory (SCILa), took part as an invited speaker at the Regional Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), held at Hefei University of Science and Technology in China
October 29, 2025
Can GPT replace linguists? How do neural networks help recognize emotions and analyze behavior? What factors influence insight when solving problems? Participants of the MICS 2.0 School of Interdisciplinary Studies, held at HSE University in St. Petersburg, sought answers to these and other questions.
October 08, 2025
Researchers from the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics — Saint Petersburg, together with colleagues from Krasnoyarsk Medical University, have completed one of the stages of a large-scale project studying the mechanisms of human communication. The results of the work have been published in the prestigious journal Hormones and Behavior.
September 23, 2025
Elena Artemenko and Yadviga Sinyawskaya presented 3 papers at the conference organised by the International Communication association.
June 18, 2025
Interdisciplinary research using artificial intelligence is actively developing at HSE University in St. Petersburg. Researchers from six university laboratories are jointly launching new projects to use AI to solve problems in sociology, linguistics, and psychology.
June 06, 2025
Alexia Syromyatnikova, a research intern of the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics, attended the conference that took place on December 6-7 in Yaroslavl.
December 11, 2024