He is an IT entrepreneur, founder of unique startups in the USA and researcher of artificial intelligence. He carried out tasks from the White House and created a large-scale volunteer project for Ukrainian refugees. In addition, learn about the career of programmer, Alan Cooper. Read more on la-future.
Biography
Artur was born in Vinnytsia. From childhood, he had a mathematical mindset and saw his development in the area. After graduating from school, he entered the local National Technical University. After studying, he worked as a programmer in his hometown. Later, he decided to move to Kyiv. In the capital of Ukraine, he created the first startup, Lat.io. This is an application with restaurant menus. However, he realized that scaling this project in Ukraine would be difficult. Thus, he went to the USA in search of sponsors. In Los Angeles, he met many programmers and future partners. He also founded a startup incubator. For four years, he worked as a technical director, living in Ukraine and often traveling to the USA. Life in this mode led to the decision to finally move.
In 2017, his work Robot Is The Boss was published. This book tells about the best way to get the benefits of using machine learning in business. In it, Artur Kyulyan explains why artificial intelligence is so important and which industries it affects the most.
The CoronaWhy project
The story of CoronaWhy began with a regular post on Facebook and Linkedin. Then, Artur called on people on social networks to join the volunteer project. In 2020, with the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, a window of opportunity opened for IT specialists to create something new. By that time, more than 20 thousand scientific articles about COVID-19 had already been written. The task of programmers was to use artificial intelligence to isolate the main information for further processing. This project continues to operate. In addition to focusing on COVID-19, it covers science in general. This project was featured in The Wall Street Journal, television news and other media. This gave Artur the understanding that he wanted to continue developing in social initiatives. The success of the CoronaWhy project prompted him to start his own non-profit organization in America — RadicalPhilanthropies.org.
UkraineNow
On the first night after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, Artur launched UkraineNow. He registered a domain, created an application form and began sending it to volunteers on social media. After the site was created, many people began to write that numerous Ukrainians were evacuating and help was needed in this direction. Artur’s company created a questionary for evacuation and became the first organization to quickly set everything up. This form had various questions, such as Do you have animals?, Do you need special assistance?, From which point to which point are you going?, etc. In the first day after the project was launched, people sent 15 thousand applications for evacuation. This was the first challenge. After all, it was necessary to process so many applications and there were not a lot of people for this. Later, NLP developers and data scientists were connected to the workflow for prioritizing requests. The first was the evacuation of children with cancer from Sumy. It was challengning, as no one on the team had dealt with such requests before. Not everything went smoothly. The evacuation process took more than a week. Later, the team developed regular buses to Krakow. Empty buses returning to Ukraine were loaded with humanitarian aid. For this, a warehouse was created in Krakow. At first, the focus of the evacuation was on Mariupol. Then, it was Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Bakhmut and Sloviansk.
Artur managed to quickly create and gather a volunteer base. About 2,000 people joined in the first month. The team created verification for them through the traditional KYC system. At first, more foreigners joined. Residents of the UK actively joined and wanted to go to Ukraine to evacuate people. Then, the Ukrainian diaspora in America, Europe and Britain joined. When there was a flow of refugees from Ukraine through Mexico, the team developed 24-hour support to help people in Mexico and after they cross the border. This was done by four people, also Ukrainian refugees. In addition to evacuation, other projects were implemented within the framework of UkraineNow, for example, 3D printing of bones at the Kyiv Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. Artur developed a special platform for doctors, positioning, branding and helped find the first donor. He allocated $5,000 for the project to formalize processes and the basic structure.
Working with technology startups
To further help Ukrainian refugees in various areas, Artur decided not to stop at evacuation. His company created a collaboration with Uber. They agreed to allocate free trips for refugees in America and Poland. Most importantly, everything was done very quickly and efficiently. Another company, Airbnb, did not agree to cooperate. For more than 4 months, Artur communicated with them. They promised to help the Ukrainians but nothing happened.
