
Cognitive and Social Sciences in the Age of AI: Results of the MIX 2.0 School at HSE University in St. Petersburg
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.

Synchrony is stronger than the 'trust hormone': research by HSE and Krasnoyarsk Medical University
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.

SCILa successfully participated it the 75th Annual ICA Conference
Elena Artemenko and Yadviga Sinyawskaya presented 3 papers at the conference organised by the International Communication association.

AI and the Humanities: HSE University in St. Petersburg Scientists Join Forces for New Discoveries
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.
SCILa participated in the conference on cognitive science ‘Psychology of cognition’, dedicated to the memory of J.S. Bruner
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.

SCILa participated in the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering
Junior Research Fellow Anton Surkov joined ICMLD 2024 that took place at Dehradun, India.

SCILa participates in the 8th International Conference "General Theoretical and Typological Problems of Linguistics"
Laboratory's Deputy Head Elena Artemenko is invited as a plenary speaker to the 8th International Conference "General Theoretical and Typological Problems of Linguistics", that will be held at Altay region this year.

First release of the EyeFeatures library, a unique oculomotor analysis tool from SCILa
The EyeFeatures library for analysing eye movements developed by the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics within the framework of the strategic project AI-technologies for human has been released for the first time! Now everyone can install and try the library on their own computer.

"ISSCAI provided great immersion into the IT environment": the AI School-Conference at HSE Saint Petersburg has ended
At HSE University – Saint Petersburg, the international AI School-Conference, ISSCAI 2024, took place. It was organized by the School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science in collaboration with the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, with support from VK and other partners. The week-long intensive program attracted talented students, postgraduates, and developers from across the country—from Moscow to Yekaterinburg—as well as from Kazakhstan and Egypt. Leading experts from Russia, the UAE, and India delivered courses on key trends in artificial intelligence, ranging from computer vision to music signal processing.

Winners of the scientific poster competition at the AI summer school
As part of the International AI School-Conference, a poster competition was held.