Founders

The HPC Group scientific group (as HPC Lab was then called) was created by Mikhail Mikhailovich Rovnyagin at Department 12 of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in 2014 as an ideological continuation of the Hybrid Supercomputer Technologies scientific group, founded by Nikolay Petrovich Vasiliev, PhD in Engineering and Associate Professor of Department 12 — the first group at MEPhI to work on hybrid supercomputer technologies.

Dmitry Mikhailovich Sinelnikov is a key figure in the development of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (HPC Lab), whose professional activity is inextricably linked with the history of the laboratory from its very origins. In 2017, after graduating from the Master's program at MEPhI, Dmitry began his research activity as a postgraduate student in the HPC Group scientific group under the supervision of Mikhail Mikhailovich Rovnyagin. Since then, he has gone from a novice researcher to one of the main founders and leaders of the laboratory. Sinelnikov D.M. is the architect and founder of the modern IT infrastructure of the laboratory. He was the one who configured the Laboratory's own server equipment, developed a secure VPN network and access gateway to the laboratory's resources, and implemented and configured Proxmox for the efficient use of computing resources. The DevOps platform created by Dmitry Mikhailovich based on GitLab CI and a unified SSO authentication system had a significant and very positive impact on the speed of development of the Laboratory's projects.