2019 has been quite a year for UFAZ students in terms of productivity and success! 

Indeed besides their high academic performances, students achieved successful results in both local and international competitions. Here below are some of the most telling examples:

• February 28, 2019 - a team of 3rd-year Computer Science students won the 1st place out of 47 teams in Azerbaijan in the online qualification round of Google Hash Code 2019. 

• March 9, 2019 - UFAZ third-year Chemical Engineering student Aleksandr Kovalyov took the first place in the MIT Integration bee, Integral calculus competition held in Azerbaijan, organized by BHOS Math Club with the support of the Roof Academic Training. 

• April 3 - for the first time UFAZ hosted the Mathematical Kangourou Competition for its first-year students. 10 of our UFAZ students were ranked in the top 100 among more than 500 candidates at the French national level. First-year Chemical Engineering student Laman Jalilova wins the fourth place in the national French contest - she is the first girl of the competition! 

• In addition, a few months later, Laman Jalilova, became the individual winner of Skills Refinery Project, launched by British Petroleum (BP) and participated at the One Young World Summit in London in October, 2019.

• October 20, ICARUS Team of UFAZ students - from Petroleum, Geophysical Engineering, and Computer Science specialities, became the winner of the NASA Space Apps 2019 Hackathon among 25 teams and were rewarded with the amount of 10.000 AZN! 

• December 7, a team of UFAZ fourth-year Computer Science students became the winner of CTF.az Competition among 60 teams and were rewarded with the amount of 3.000 AZN! 

Above-mentioned achievements are the living proof of the talent and motivation of UFAZ students, but also their intellectual curiosity and eagerness to try themselves in various platforms and international competitions! 

We congratulate our students for their achievements and wish many more successes to come for the New Year 2020!

To recall, the 2019 / 2020 academic year is the milestone in the history of UFAZ, since after its first 4 years of work in Azerbaijan, the university will witness the graduation of its first cohort of students in July, 2020.