Dr. Oleg S. (Cohan)

Oleg Shovkovyy is a versatile applied researcher, educator, and technology strategist with over a decade of experience spanning higher education, international business, and engineering across Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

He holds a Ph.D. in Development Administration from NIDA Thailand, an MSc in AI and Computing Engineering from CMKL University, and an MSc in Strategic Management from ABAC Thailand — a foundation that uniquely bridges rigorous academic thinking with practical, technology-driven leadership.

As a lecturer at Burapha University International College (BUUIC), he has taught undergraduate courses in business, digital marketing, AI for Business, Machine Learning, and Linear Algebra, consistently emphasising the intersection of human values and technological innovation. His earlier roles in property development, electronics engineering, and cross-border marketing have given him an unusually broad perspective on how technology reshapes industries and societies.

It was at CMKL University — working alongside Dr. Miri and contributing to pioneering research on Coevolutionary Hybrid Intelligence — that his conviction crystallised: AI development without ethical grounding is not progress, it is risk. This conviction led him to co-found the Human Continuity Institute, an organisation he now leads with a focus on building the institutional, educational, and archival infrastructure that the AI age demands.

Oleg is committed to ensuring that the Human Continuity Institute becomes a genuinely global voice — one that bridges the technological frontier with the enduring values of human dignity, memory, and continuity. He believes the most important work of our generation is not building smarter machines, but ensuring those machines serve a wiser humanity.