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The air bubbles were leaving my mask and travelling towards the surface of the water, the aqualung on my shoulders was providing my lungs with essential oxygen, my weightless body was going deeper and deeper towards the fascinating bottom of the sea – that’s when an eureka moment stroke me! We have just paid for a free substance – air – which is encapsulated in an aqualung. In the world of art – how could we encapsulate a value of an art object which is free to be admired in the museum and turn it into a measurable …. That idea, born in beautiful Malta, gave a foundation for a patent that I have worked on with my father and which has been successfully registered Patented Technology. Pat No. 10805263A triumph of a small idea turned into significant achievement! A couple of years later another hospital device has been pumping an oxygen into my lungs , over and over again. This time - saving my life in London’s hospital where I was treated for an acute myocarditis. Staring at the ceiling for hours and hours, I wished I could send my prayers to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. That’s when an idea for an initiative with Shalva National Centre was born. With my contribution of an initial idea and setting up the website www.shalva.art , a few months later special needs children started delivering prayers on behalf of those who couldn’t travel to the holy place and the program has been giving hope to people since then. It’s been also raising substantial charitable funds for children with special needs from the Jerusalem’s Shalva Center. Recognising the possibility of combining engineering with creative arts, a couple of years ago, under a supervision from Prof. Opredelenov, I have started working on eye tracking systems, pioneered by the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. With help of technologies like eye tracking, our aim was to find solutions for disabled visitors of the museums and make art fully accessible for them. The idea of transforming cultural institutions into data-driven entities has been also picked up by the giants like the MET, allowing them to become a part of a “Smart City” concept and enabling disabled citizens and art spaces to get together and connect. At the age of thirteen, when I was approaching the North Pole with the Russian Geographical Society expedition, I realised how much at that time and place we all relied on advanced technical equipment. It’s right there when I made a promise to myself to work hard to become an engineer, to create “things” that could be useful and maybe life saving for other people. In the following years I have graduated with a Gold Medal from the high school in Russia, two years ahead of my peers. Then, to obtain double high-school degree, I continued my education – this time in the UK - to get an A-level degree, giving me not only a knowledge but also an understanding of what it means to live in a different culture, accept new customs and adjust quickly.

The air bubbles were leaving my mask and travelling towards the surface of the water, the aqualung on my shoulders was providing my lungs with essential oxygen, my weightless body was going deeper and deeper towards the fascinating bottom of the sea – that’s when an eureka moment stroke me! We have just paid for a free substance – air – which is encapsulated in an aqualung. In the world of art – how could we encapsulate a value of an art object which is free to be admired in the museum and turn it into a measurable …. That idea, born in beautiful Malta, gave a foundation for a patent that I have worked on with my father and which has been successfully registered Patented Technology. Pat No. 10805263A triumph of a small idea turned into significant achievement!
A couple of years later another hospital device has been pumping an oxygen into my lungs , over and over again. This time - saving my life in London’s hospital where I was treated for an acute myocarditis. Staring at the ceiling for hours and hours, I wished I could send my prayers to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. That’s when an idea for an initiative with Shalva National Centre was born. With my contribution of an initial idea and setting up the website www.shalva.art , a few months later special needs children started delivering prayers on behalf of those who couldn’t travel to the holy place and the program has been giving hope to people since then. It’s been also raising substantial charitable funds for children with special needs from the Jerusalem’s Shalva Center.
Recognising the possibility of combining engineering with creative arts, a couple of years ago, under a supervision from Prof. Opredelenov, I have started working on eye tracking systems, pioneered by the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. With help of technologies like eye tracking, our aim was to find solutions for disabled visitors of the museums and make art fully accessible for them. The idea of transforming cultural institutions into data-driven entities has been also picked up by the giants like the MET, allowing them to become a part of a “Smart City” concept and enabling disabled citizens and art spaces to get together and connect.
At the age of thirteen, when I was approaching the North Pole with the Russian Geographical Society expedition, I realised how much at that time and place we all relied on advanced technical equipment. It’s right there when I made a promise to myself to work hard to become an engineer, to create “things” that could be useful and maybe life saving for other people. In the following years I have graduated with a Gold Medal from the high school in Russia, two years ahead of my peers. Then, to obtain double high-school degree, I continued my education – this time in the UK - to get an A-level degree, giving me not only a knowledge but also an understanding of what it means to live in a different culture, accept new customs and adjust quickly.