ALUMNI
1710
students graduated
11
graduation ceremonies since IU foundation
50
countries that our alumni represent
90+
startups opened by IU alumni
Alumni Club
Alumni Club was founded in December 2020, and it was first led by 10 members from 2015-2020 graduation years. We are now working to create special environment, where every member of the club is able to find a business partner, a colleague for a joint project or just like-minded people with shared interests.
We want to ensure we are not only tied by similar views and ambitions, but do also encourage and help each other. Join the club to stay in touch with your course mates, keep updated about upcoming opportunities, and remain part of Inno-community!
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IU Alumni Awards
IU Award for outstanding graduates and community leaders is given from 2021. This honorable recognition is awarded for special achievements in professional and other socially important areas, as well as for contribution to fostering relationships between Innopolis University and its graduates.
Candidates for IU Awards are proposed by alumni themselves.Final voting is conducted among all graduates, professorship team, IU administration and current students. Moreover, previous winners' candidacy is not considered.
IU Alumni Awards in 2025:
- Application Period 28.04.2025 - 04.05.2025
Online Vote 07.05.2025 - 11.05.2025
Awards Ceremony 24.05.2025
The voting is carried out by IU alumni and faculty members.
IU Alumni Awards Winners
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2025 WINNERS
Engineer of the Future in Education and Medicine
Bulat Maksudov
Bachelors program Innopolis University
Innopolis University
Bulat is an emerging engineer at the intersection of education and medicine. He is one of the organizers of the 1519 scholarship and mentorship program, which has already supported 47 students and continues to expand its impact. While at the AI Institute of Innopolis University, Bulat contributed to the development of an X-ray analysis service that has been implemented in more than 178 hospitals across Moscow, the Moscow region, and Tatarstan, helping to improve diagnostic efficiency and healthcare accessibility. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at Dublin City University, where he specializes in medical image analysis. Bulat is also the author and co-author of 12 scientific publications and holds an h-index of 5, reflecting the growing recognition of his contributions to the field.
Center for Artificial Intelligence of the IU
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2025 WINNERS
AI Research Engineer & Founding Engineer
Aleksei Korshuk
Bachelors program Innopolis University
Innopolis University
Aleksei is an AI research engineer and a founding engineer at the startup Coframe, based in Silicon Valley, USA. The company has raised $9 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman. He is a co-author of publications presented at ICLR and received an Honorable Mention from Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2024. Aleksei collaborates with researchers from DeepMind, CAIF, MIT, and Berkeley on a project for NeurIPS 2025. He is also the winner of the AGI House hackathon organized by Adam D’Angelo.
Coframe
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2025 WINNERS
Digital Innovator
Ilnur Mamedbakov
Bachelors program Innopolis University
Innopolis University
Ilnur is the founder of Media Pilot, a service for automating social media management for small businesses, as well as the digital studio Tovarischi-digital. He launched Tovarischi-digital and has successfully delivered over 20 projects. Ilnur is the winner of a hackathon in Qatar, where he worked on launching a product in the MENA market. He also teaches the CEO Toolkit course at Innopolis University.
Media Pilot
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2024 WINNERS
AI Scientist
Vlad Kurenkov
Bachelors program
Innopolis University
Vlad is the winner of the "AI Scientist" category as a research supervisor at AIRI, and he played a pivotal role in the launch of Tinkoff Research, focusing on Reinforcement Learning. Over the past three years, Vlad has authored seven publications for NeurIPS/ICML and earned the Yandex ML Prize (formerly the Segalovich Prize) as a young supervisor. Moreover, Vlad is one of the organizers of the 1519 Scholarship & Mentoring program for students at Innopolis University.
AIRI
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2023 WINNERS
Vlad Vinogradov
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Vlad Vinogradov, co-founder and CTO of Optic, has been included in Forbes' "30 Under 30" long list in the Science and Technology category. Optic, a joint startup focused on detecting NFT forgeries, was founded by Vlad, a graduate of an IT university, along with former Google Product Director Andrey Doronichev and EORA founder Roman Doronin. The company has attracted $11 million in funding from a Google investor. Vlad also co-founded EORA, a startup studio that develops machine learning-based computer vision solutions and oversees the development of various open-source projects.
Forbes
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2022 WINNERS
VYACHESLAV LUKIN
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Vyacheslav is the CEO of Edge Vision that specializes in the applications of Computer Vision in transport industry. He also gladly offers internship opportunities to the IU students and is one of the chairs at the commission for final thesis defense of IU students providing his expert opinion as an industry leader. Besides, he is an assistant of the IU Master's program in Software Development and Engineering.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for outstanding success in the enterpreneurship and business development
Kevin
Khanda
Bachelors Program
Innopolis University
KazanExpress co-founder. In 2021 this service is available in 48 cities and it continues to expand. Multibillion company has more than 2 millions of active users, and it's not just a start-up - AliExpress invested in the service! In 2020 company launched a social project StopCorona to help elderly people with doorstep food delivery. Kevin supports IU students and alumni via hiring them for KazanExpress.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for desire to share own noteworthy experience with others
Vasilii
Artemev
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Vasya is one of the key persons in Software Engeneering among all alumni, and students ask for his advice about different issues in this field.
He also hires many of the IU students and alumni for the startup Remy Robotics in Barcelona.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for creation of the first startup in Innopolis and success at the international markets
Anton
Trantin
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Founder of the first IT-startup in Innopolis - Innosoft company. Brought tech-product YORSO to the international market - today it's at TOP-3 in the world in its' field. Has 10 years of experience as developer, architect and tech-lead. Anton is also a frequent winner of blockchain hackathons, winner of the first Sberbank & 500Startups acceleration program, winner of the Global Seafood Innovation in the Fish 2.0 program held at Stanford, USA.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for promotion of the Innopolis University at the world educational map
Evgenii
Bobrov
Masters Program
Innopolis University
From IU Master's student to professor, program manager, department of educational programs chief and vice-rector - Eugeniy develops and promotes IU as the best IT University in Russia that is presented on the world educational map and included in the international ratings.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for contribution in society and peace development in non-commercial sector
Stas
Litvinöv
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Stas is the ambassador of Innopolis. Promotes eco-friendly attitude to everything around us. One of the first IU alumni, during performing his teaching duties he was chosen by the students as the best TA.
IU ALUMNI AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
for extraordinary knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence
Emil
Magerramov
Masters Program
Innopolis University
Founder of the AI Community Innopolis, co-founder of the EORA.ai, head of the Biocad computational chemistry group.
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ALUMNI RELATIONS
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Alumni Relations Manager
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