About the Department

The joint department of HSE with the Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in 2015. The joint department is part of the School of Software Engineering of the Faculty of Computer Science.

The Head of the Department is Arutyun Avetisyan, Director of the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

The Department teaches disciplines of the System Programming educational track to students of the Software Engineering Bachelor’s Programme and disciplines of the System Programming Master’s Programme.

The areas of research and applied development that the joint department is involved in coincide with the main areas of research carried out by the ISP: programming methodology, software engineering, new programming paradigms, operating systems, programming languages, databases and knowledge bases, parallel and distributed systems, computer networks, intellectual systems.