Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero: Ten Years of Challenges and Victories

Part I: The Beginning.- 1. The Arcadia of Innopolis.- 2. Early Days and Further Development.- Part II: The People.- 3. Hiring and Developing an International Faculty.- 4. Curricula and Language of Instruction.- 5. Attracting the Best Students.- 6. The Research Environment and Our Values.- Part III: The Activities.- 7. Faculty, Institutes, and Labs.- 8. Cooperation with Industry.- Part IV: The Future.- 9. Internationalization of the University.- 10. Online and Blended Education: After COVID-19.- 11. Faculty Strategy for the Future.- 12. Conclusion.- Part V: A Visual Journey.- 13. Photobook.

Manuel Mazzara is the Director of the Institute of Software Development and Engineering and the Head of the International Cooperation Office at Innopolis University, Russia. His research interests include software engineering, service-oriented architecture and programming, concurrency theory, formal methods, and software verification. He cooperated with European and US industry, plus governmental and inter-governmental organizations such as the United Nations, always at the edge between science and software production.

Giancarlo Succi is currently Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Innopolis University, Russia. His research interests are in empirical software engineering, open source, mobile and energy aware systems, software reuse, and software product lines. He has taught a variety of academic and industrial courses throughout his career in software engineering, programming languages, and mobile, distributed, and centralized operating systems. He has organized various international conferences and other scientific and educational events.

Alexander Tormasov is the Rector of Innopolis University, Russia; Chairman of the Theoretical and Applied Computer Science Chair, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia; Dr. sci (habil.) in physics and mathematics, Full Professor. His research interests are virtualization of operating systems including new approaches, security in distributed networks, cloud systems and other computer science topics. He authored 174+ US patents in different areas of virtualization, operating systems, security and computer science applications.