Student Story Ihar Shulhan

Ihar has used every opportunity to experiment with different fields of code. In his first year, he worked in a machine learning lab at his university. “I was developing an algorithm for recognising activities, so you wear a smartwatch on your wrist; I can recognise if you’re walking, jogging, sitting.” After that eight-month internship in the lab, he decided to take on industry assignments. He didn’t have to look far. Ihar helped build an application for the cafe inside his university to automate the process of scanning. AlVovo is another digital product that he fashioned. At workshop hosted by European Innovation Academy in Nice, he collaborated with a group of students from California, New York, Italy and France on AlVovo - an app that allows you to place an order at a restaurant in advance. “We know lunch time is limited. The idea is to order food before you go to restaurants so it will be ready upon arrival and you can enjoy it with your free time.” As it turns out, Ihar is more than just a computer scientist. He is a budding entrepreneur. “I am really interested in entrepreneurship and my parents are entrepreneurs. There is this desire to do that. And there is a big background in computer science from another point of view – and there is a lot of opportunities there. “