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MIPT Blockchain Master’s Program

The most demanded IT specialty
Deep knowledge in information security and blockchain
Work with real business projects during education
Doing Research in the blockchain competency center “Idea”
Partners

The MIPT Blockchain Master's Program is the right choice for you

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Relevant and demanded

Blockchain is the fastest growing technology used by large global companies from various industries

Free tuition + scholarship

All enrolled students are provided with a grant from Norilsk Nickel for tuition, accommodation in dormitory and a scholarship

Career opportunities

During education students undergo internships in partner companies and have an opportunity to get a full-time employment in their specialty

Education at the best technical university in Russia

MIPT is the number one technical university in Russia, which is regularly reflected in the leading global university rankings

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Master’s program education outcomes

Knowledge of blockchain theory (models, consensus, vulnerabilities), cryptography and tokenomics
Ability to create your own blockchain project and develop smart contracts in Ethereum
Knowledge of information security systems
Ability to program and run projects with the Hyperledger Fabric framework
Master's degree in higher education from MIPT in blockchain
Opportunity to undergo an internship in a partner company of MIPT

Major disciplines

2 years: Duration

Full-time: Format

Russian: Language

1st semester

Game theory: 60 H. Exam
Introduction to DLT, part 1: 45 H. Credit
Ethereum: 105 H. Exam
Cryptography, part 1: 90 H. Credit
Probability theory: 45 H. Credit
Computational complexity: 90 H. Credit
Distributed systems: 60 H. Exam

2nd semester

Hyperledger Fabric, part 1: 45 H. Credit
Introduction to DLT, part 2: 60 H. Exam
Cryptography, part 2: 105 H. Exam
Golang Programming: 45 H. Credit
Operating systems, part 1: 90 H. Credit
Databases: 90 H. Credit

3rd semester

Tokenomics: 60 H. Exam
Operating systems, part 2: 105 H. Exam
Decentralized Financial Services (DeFi): 90 H. Credit
Hyperledger Fabric, part 2: 60 H. Exam

4th semester

Tokenomics: applied tasks: 60 H. Exam

Lecturers

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Vladimir Gorgadze
Head of Master's Program
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Head of Blockchain Master's Program at MIPT, Associate Professor
Head of tokenization projects at MMC Norilsk Nickel
CEO at Newity LLC
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, University of California Berkeley
Lecturer with 27 years of experience
Co-founder of TUTU.TV, TVzavr.ru, Newity LLC
Experience with blockchain 5+ years

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Alexander Belenov
Leading DLT expert at Nornickel
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Past experience: streaming supercomputer development (10 years)
In 1999-2002 led development of one of the SKIF Program branches
Co-founder of the Blockchain Competence Center under the MIPT high-energy physics laboratory and Rosstandart technical committee for standardization of the distributed registry and blockchain
Develops video technologies in Russia since 2003
Co-founder of the online cinema TVzavr.ru (Russia's first CDN supporting the DRM system recognized by major foreign content suppliers)

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Artem Barger
Head of the Idea blockchain competence center, researcher
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University of Haifa MSc in Machine Learning Clustering Algorithms and Big Data Processing
IBM Researcher on the Cloud Foundation team at Haifa Research Laboratory
Designs and develops scalable distributed ledger replication for Hyperledger Fabric

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Alexander Nikolaev
"Ethereum" course teacher
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Bachelor of computer science
Hashlab professor specializing in Ethereum smart contracts
Co-founder of Symbiosis finance. Developer of Solidity project. Master builder of Dapp's
Blockchain hackathon winner (BlockchainHack 2016, BlockchainHack 2017, LaToken Hackathon)
Winner of the blockchain startup competition supported by the Swiss government and Crypto Valley

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Sergey Priluckiy
"DeFi" course teacher
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Software researcher, developer, security specialist, educator, article author
Over 25 years of experience in developing languages from Assembler to JavaScript and infrastructure from low-level software to big data clusters
He worked with anti-virus analyzers, high-load microservices, anti-spam systems, search and media projects in the largest companies on the Russian Internet
Extensive experience in the field of information security, high-load services, system architectures, cryptography and algorithms
Co-founder of MixBytes blockchain company
Author of courses, lectures and articles on information security, cryptography and decentralized networks

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Roman Lipovskiy
"Distributed Systems" course teacher, developer
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Developer, Professor
Worked in the Yandex development department
Lecturer at MIPT, HSE, School of Data Analysis, Computer Science Club
At MIPT he also lectures on the subjects "Theory and Practice of Multithreaded Synchronization", "Theory of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems", "Parallel and Distributed Computing"

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Aleksey Kurochkin
"Cryptography" course teacher
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Current place of employment: Security Code LLC, Cryptographic Analysis Department
Work experience in the field of cryptographic analysis for over 5 years
Lecturer at the Department of Higher Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Participant of research works of the Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation
One of the authors of the work on assessing the security of the MGM algorithm - the first domestic development from the AEAD family approved by the IETF as an RFC

Vladimir Gorgadze

Head of Master's Program

Head of Blockchain Master's Program at MIPT, Associate Professor
Head of tokenization projects at MMC Norilsk Nickel
CEO at Newity LLC
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, University of California Berkeley
Lecturer with 27 years of experience
Co-founder of TUTU.TV, TVzavr.ru, Newity LLC
Experience with blockchain 5+ years

Alexander Belenov

Leading DLT expert at Nornickel

Past experience: streaming supercomputer development (10 years)
In 1999-2002 led development of one of the SKIF Program branches
Co-founder of the Blockchain Competence Center under the MIPT high-energy physics laboratory and Rosstandart technical committee for standardization of the distributed registry and blockchain
Develops video technologies in Russia since 2003
Co-founder of the online cinema TVzavr.ru (Russia's first CDN supporting the DRM system recognized by major foreign content suppliers)

Artem Barger

Head of the Idea blockchain competence center, researcher

University of Haifa MSc in Machine Learning Clustering Algorithms and Big Data Processing
IBM Researcher on the Cloud Foundation team at Haifa Research Laboratory
Designs and develops scalable distributed ledger replication for Hyperledger Fabric

Alexander Nikolaev

"Ethereum" course teacher

Bachelor of computer science
Hashlab professor specializing in Ethereum smart contracts
Co-founder of Symbiosis finance. Developer of Solidity project. Master builder of Dapp's
Blockchain hackathon winner (BlockchainHack 2016, BlockchainHack 2017, LaToken Hackathon)
Winner of the blockchain startup competition supported by the Swiss government and Crypto Valley

Sergey Priluckiy

"DeFi" course teacher

Software researcher, developer, security specialist, educator, article author
Over 25 years of experience in developing languages from Assembler to JavaScript and infrastructure from low-level software to big data clusters
He worked with anti-virus analyzers, high-load microservices, anti-spam systems, search and media projects in the largest companies on the Russian Internet
Extensive experience in the field of information security, high-load services, system architectures, cryptography and algorithms
Co-founder of MixBytes blockchain company
Author of courses, lectures and articles on information security, cryptography and decentralized networks

Roman Lipovskiy

"Distributed Systems" course teacher, developer

Developer, Professor
Worked in the Yandex development department
Lecturer at MIPT, HSE, School of Data Analysis, Computer Science Club
At MIPT he also lectures on the subjects "Theory and Practice of Multithreaded Synchronization", "Theory of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems", "Parallel and Distributed Computing"

Aleksey Kurochkin

"Cryptography" course teacher

Current place of employment: Security Code LLC, Cryptographic Analysis Department
Work experience in the field of cryptographic analysis for over 5 years
Lecturer at the Department of Higher Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Participant of research works of the Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation
One of the authors of the work on assessing the security of the MGM algorithm - the first domestic development from the AEAD family approved by the IETF as an RFC

Admission requirements

Mandatory

Higher education diploma with a high GPA
Knowledge of at least one of the programming languages: C ++, Golang, JS, Java
The level of Russian language required for studying on the program
Object Oriented Programming: Basic Level
Discrete Mathematics: Basic

Considered as an advantage

Real experience in project development
English language: intermediate and above

How to apply?

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Submit documents to the admissions office
June-August 2022

Pass the exams
In mathematics and computer science, oral and written

The timeframe for submission of documents is June-August 2022. All dates will be announced later

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