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Bio
Ukrainian-born founder building autonomous-drone infrastructure and AI automation.
Vadym Melnyk is the Ukrainian-born founder & CEO of Dronehub, an autonomous drone-infrastructure company, and the creator of the AI-education brand VADYM.AI. A 3× Forbes honoree and Financial Times FT1000 founder, he holds a US EB1A “extraordinary ability” green card.
Vadym Melnyk (b. 1994, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a technologist and serial founder. At fifteen he won a US State Department FLEX scholarship and competed in FIRST robotics; he later moved to Poland — arriving with two words of Polish — and founded Cervi Robotics in 2015.
A 2017 European Space Agency contract for autonomous landing and battery swap became the genesis of Dronehub, today an EU R&D leader in autonomous drone-in-a-box infrastructure (Horizon 2020 HUUVER coordinator; ESA + EDA AUDROS; U-Space4UAM). Dronehub ranked in the Financial Times FT1000 (2023).
Vadym is a 3× Forbes honoree (Poland 2020 & 2021, Ukraine 2023), holds a granted patent for autonomous drone parcel handling, and received a US EB1A “extraordinary ability” green card. He also creates AI-education content as VADYM.AI (Ukrainian) and KIERUNEK.AI (Polish), and is building a new US venture, Oswin AI.
Quick facts
- 3× Forbes 30 Under 30Poland “25 przed 25” (2020) & “30 przed 30” (2021) · Ukraine “30 до 30” (2023)
- Financial Times FT1000Ranked among Europe’s fastest-growing companies (2023)
- US EB1A green card“Extraordinary ability” — granted 2024
- GENIUS NY finalist$500K accelerator finalist · Syracuse, NY (2022)
- Granted patentAutonomous drone parcel handling (Polish Patent Office, 2023)
- $10M+ in EU R&D fundingEuropean Space Agency · European Defence Agency · Horizon Europe