This year’s last meeting for the Industrial Master’s, which was convened by the students themself took place in Sandbox, where Hasan introduced his work at Statistics Estonia and later everyone got to bake gingerbreads. Plenty has happened in a year after moving to Tartu and we are glad, that we are still standing together. This […]

What is Sandbox? This remains a question to many up to this day. This post provides an overview of the programme using the language of those who we develop the whole programme for – our students. If you find yourself wondering whether Sandbox is the right place for you, then read this blog post! So […]

We are happy to share the great news that the paper “Designing Corporate Hackathons With a Purpose: The Future of Software Development” co-authored by our Associate Professor Alexander Nolte with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, Github and Microsoft was named as the Runner-up for the 2019 Best Paper Award from IEEE Software by the IEEE […]

On October 13, Ardi Tampuu defended his PhD thesis „Neural networks for analyzing biological data“. In his thesis, it was demonstrated the benefits of ANNs in analyzing two biological datasets. First, they investigated if based only on the information contained within a DNA snippet it is possible to predict if the snippet originates from a […]

In September, we launched four courses in Sandbox that will be taking place in the autumn semester 2020/2021. We are excited to see the growth of the Sandbox community and the development of the programme as well. Before the registrations for the courses started, we created this interactive diagram to help prospective students decide which […]

On September 25, Orlenys López Pintado defended his PhD thesis „Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Blockchain: The Caterpillar System“. In his thesis, Orlenys addressed the problem of automating the execution of collaborative business processes on top of blockchain technology in a way that takes advantage of the trust-enhancing capabilities of this technology while offering […]

By Karmen Kink On the last day of August, just before the autumn semester kicked in, the Industrial Master’s class of 2019 got together in person after a long time. It had indeed been quite a while as we don’t have seminars too often and even so, the last two had been entirely online. As […]

On Friday, August 28 Janno Siim defended his PhD thesis „Non-Interactive Shuffle Arguments„ A fundamental requirement for all democratic governments is a secure voting system. In recent years some countries, like Estonia and Switzerland, have adopted internet voting (i-voting), and many more have experimented (e.g., Norway and Australia) or have plans to adopt it in […]

On the 13th of August Karim Baghery defended his PhD thesis „Reducing trust and improving security in zk-SNARKs and commitments„ in which he studied the zk-SNARKs from two different perspectives, namely reducing trust in their setup phase and improving their security in different applications. On the need for proof systems People frequently are asked to […]

By Ida Maria Orula This semester’s last meeting for the Industrial Masters’21 (as in “class of 2021”) began with an introduction from the students from the GedMed project and continued with working on personal development sheets that this time students will take as an input for the autumn semester. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic was […]

Spring semester 2019/20 has become the first official semester for Sandbox as it was the first semester when Sandbox activities took place in its own space in the newly opened Delta Centre. Sandbox is a design thinking and digital product management programme for master’s students at the University of Tartu. Even though we call it […]

By Miras Kenzhegaliyev and Brandon Christopher Autrey On April 9, the third intake of the Industrial Master’s Programme met for their third meeting to discuss different Master’s Thesis topic types. This meeting was supposed to be held at the Pipedrive office where Brandon and Miras are working, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic had to […]

On February 27, the thirds intake second gathering took place in the Delta Centre, where they met the third intake to discuss their motivations for joining the programme and to put together a plan for how every student can develop the skills they want. Since we keep talking about different intakes and it might be […]

On March 23, Adriano Augusto defended his PhD thesis „Accurate and efficient discovery of process models from event logs„ in which he provided an overview of the available algorithms to perform automated process discovery. They identified deficiencies in existing algorithms, and proposed a new algorithm, called Split Miner, which is faster and consistently discovers more […]

This year began the third intake of the Industrial Master’s Programme in IT and we thought it is about time for us to create a journal, where we will describe the experience and explain the wonder that the Industrial Master’s Programme in IT is. In the future, we will write regular blog posts about seminars, […]

On the 21st of February, Faiz Ali Shah defended his PhD thesis on “Extracting information from app reviews to facilitate software development activities” which evaluates the existing Text Mining techniques for extracting developer-relevant information from app reviews at different levels of granularity, and then combined these techniques to develop a tool REVSUM for competitive analysis. […]