Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Chief Executive Officer of iCarnegie, a Subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has met with Gil Taran, CEO of iCarnegie, a subsidiary of the American Carnegie Mellon University.

Aide to the Tatarstan President Airat Khairullin, Tatarstan’s Vice-Premier – Minister of telecommunications Roman Shaikhutdinov, Minister of education and science Albert Gilmutdinov, rector of the Kazan (Volga) federal university Ilshat Gafurov attended the meeting at the House of RT Government.

The Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh and is one of the leading universities in the sphere of science and technology, in particular, robotics and artificial intelligence. iCarnegie is engaged in development of academic programmes and courses, and teaching techniques in IT industry.

At the meeting the parties discussed prospects of the university participation in realization of the project that is aimed at creation of the IT city, Innopolis-Kazan. iCarnegie and Carnegie Mellon are expected to be the main partners involved in establishment of the IT university in Innopolis. The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov noted that it is a big the project and academic component would play an important role.