Undergraduate Scholar

Misha Nyzhnyk

Type of scholarship
Undergraduate Scholar
Oxford course
Mathematics and Computer Science
Oxford college
St Hugh’s College
Cohort
Incoming 2026
Country
Ukraine

Misha aspires to leverage technology to improve people's everyday lives. Inspired by Ukraine's post-2019 rapid digitisation of government services, he strives to scale digital systems and integrate them with AI to dismantle bureaucracy and corruption.

Misha is an HMC Projects Scholar—one of 80 selected across Eastern and Central Europe—and a Ukraine Global Scholars (UGS) finalist. He developed educational chatbots for a tutoring school and researched broader chatbot applications, earning a top-20 national rank in Ukraine's Junior Academy of Sciences competition. Currently, Misha is developing an AI-powered AR navigation app for group travel.

Mathematics is another of Misha's passions, which he shares as a tutor for war-affected children through Plekayou, a Ukrainian educational initiative. Misha writes problems for the Ukrainian Mathematical Olympiads and has won multiple awards from national mathematics competitions, including the British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO). He has authored a research paper on mixtilinear incircles, published in the Mathematical Reflections journal.

In his community, Misha is known for his Ukrainian advocacy; he volunteers as an admissions officer and mentors at UGS, he speaks five languages and enjoys playing card games and hiking.

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