The winners of the innovative projects competition held as part of the Sikorsky Challenge 2025 festival, which recently took place at KPI, have been announced. They will receive funding to implement their ideas. This is the fourth festival held during the war, so its priorities included a defense forum and projects aimed at protecting the civilian population and critical infrastructure. The authors describe one of the developments that addresses an urgent need: the construction of shelters.
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Associate Professor of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of IPSA0.0, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Pyshnohraiev is among the winners of the university competition “Young Teacher-Researcher 2024.” He is one of the active scientists of the modern school of analytics and machine learning at Igor Sikorsky KPI.

Yury Gogotsi, Professor at Drexel University, USA, and alumnus of Ukraine’s Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, is on the Clarivate list of the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2025.

On November 21, 2025, the XVIII Open Student Olympiad on the Theory of Electronic Circuits took place remotely, which is held annually by the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Faculty of Electronics and is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Vitaly P. Sigorsky, an outstanding scientist and teacher who worked at our university from 1964 to 2007.

On November 26, 2025, the first Open Veterans' Tournament of Long Backgammon “Warrior of Light” took place at the CLUST Space smart space in the H. I. Denisenko Scientific and Technical Library (Igor Sikorsky KPI Library).

Vadym Riznyk, an expert at the Information Security Department of PUMB, and Nataliia Bulava, an expert at the PUMB Transaction Monitoring Center, shared their experience in combating fraud.

Using practical case studies, students learned more about:

📌 GSC Ukraine LLC specializes in developing software for computer games and is the developer of the legendary S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

The main esports event of the fall at Igor Sikorsky KPI! The finals of the Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 tournaments took place as part of the open esports tournament “KPI Rector's Cup 2025.”

About 15 military personnel and veterans, some of whom are students and graduates of KPI, took part in the rehabilitation program.