During his business trip to China, Professor Vladislav Blatov delivered a plenary talk at the 10th International Forum of Materials Genome Engineering, which was held November 2-6 in Jinan. The forum brought together approximately 3,500 participants and covered a wide range of topics in modern theoretical and applied materials science.Vladislav Blatov presented a paper entitled "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Materials Science," in which he focused on the challenges of preparing data for training artificial intelligence systems capable of modeling materials with specified structures and properties. Vladislav Blatov also served on the forum's organizing committee and co-organized the symposium "The Belt and Road Forum on Innovation & Cooperation," which featured presentations by materials scientists from China, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Pakistan, Egypt, and Thailand.
"This is a large-scale scientific event, organized by the Chinese side with great skill, almost flawlessly," says Professor Vladislav Blatov. "It was a great honor for me to speak on the first plenary day, especially since foreigners are rarely given this opportunity – the Chinese have plenty of highly qualified specialists of their own Incidentally, several of the plenary speakers were Chinese working outside of China. In my report, I discussed the mathematical models, methods, software, databases, knowledge bases, and internet services that we are developing, and their role in creating artificial intelligence systems. This is currently a global trend – most of the reports at the forum were devoted in one way or another to the use of artificial intelligence in materials science, and China is a recognized leader in this field. Major scientific events are shifting from the Western world to countries of the Global South. This was also evidenced by the "Belt and Road" symposium on innovation and cooperation, organized as part of the forum by Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi'an), with my participation".