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Shweta Sikhwal, from India, is a research assistant at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development of the HSE University Institute for Industrial and Market Studies. In a seminar on May 26, 2023, she presented her paper ‘Can machine learning models provide a better forecast of money demand? Evidence from the Indian economy’ as part of a series on ‘Institutional Problems of the Russian Economy’. Shweta spoke to the HSE News Service about the seminar, her PhD research, and her experience of life in Moscow.

Carlos J. Rincon already had an eventful career before he ended up studying and teaching at HSE University-St Petersburg. The professor was born in Colombia and worked in his native country and the USA in the financial sector before starting his academic career. Not wanting to rest on his laurels, Carlos enrolled in the Master’s programme ‘Finance’ at HSE University-St Petersburg, where he has been studying and teaching since 2019. 

The third issue of 2021 presents interviews about HSE University's new Master's standard.

The second issue of 2021 presents interviews about knowledge production and exchange from various angles.

The first issue of 2021 presents interviews with former and current participants of HSE international postdoc programme, and introduces new postdocs.

The fifth issue of 2020 presents an interview on the international postdoc programme and introduces new postdocs.

The fourth issue of 2020 presents three interviews on the digital university concept and introduces new tenure faculty.

The third issue of 2020 presents three interviews on tenure track stories and our commentary on a new format of the April conference.

HSE researchers Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Haerke from the Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology (Faculty of Humanities) have been involved in the discovery of the earliest domestic cat yet found in northern Eurasia. The presence of Dzhanik (as the archaeologists have begun to call the tomcat) implies that there was a reasonably large settlement with a sedentary population even 200 years before it was surrounded by big walls and was called a town.

The second issue of 2020 presents two interviews on history and innovation and our advice on working remotely.