“[Mikhail “Misha” Ankudovych] creates memorable moments, mentors his peers, and helps shape the Northeastern community in every corner of student life,” says Adriana Garza, senior year experience officer at Northeastern. Misha makes an impact on all he does, whether it’s serving in Student Government (SGA), leading at the NU Doghouse, assisting in the classroom, or manning the suicide hotline.
Now about to graduate with a B.S. in Data Science and Economics and a 3.96 GPA, Misha is a leader among his peers. He has been on the SGA executive board for three years. His love for hockey led him to the NU Doghouse, where he helped coordinate travel and group tickets to get fans to games across Hockey East. Additionally, he is chair of the Senior Year Experience Board and prepares seniors for the transition from being students to alumni by coordinating social and professional events.
Misha’s academic life is equally impactful. He has been a research assistant on two projects. He validated a machine learning algorithm used to study gender dynamics in economic seminars for the Community 2 Community Impact Engine and completed qualitative coding for a privacy-related paper within the Khoury College Computer Science. Currently, he is exploring options to publish his undergraduate thesis, in which he created an 11.4 million-large dataset on a simulated economy studying trade interdependence and conflict onset.
His experiential learning has gone beyond research. Misha completed a Dialogue of Civilizations in Israel studying
international consulting. He participated in a co-op at Northeastern Library’s Digital Scholarship Group supporting data pipelining and visualizations with the Massachusetts Historical Society. Misha’s passion for hockey resulted in a project management internship with the National Hockey League. He also was a station management intern with Amtrak and a market risk quantitative model development intern for J.P. Morgan Chase.
Of his many achievements, Misha says working with the NU Doghouse during Matthews Arena’s final year is his most significant. “As the historic arena prepared to close, we worked to ensure it received the send-off it
deserved while maintaining the strong student atmosphere that had long defined Northeastern hockey,” he says. During the final game at the arena, Misha and other Doghouse leaders organized student crowds to hoist “Thank You Matthews” signs at puck drop. The event received considerable media attention.
Misha is a member of the University Honors Program and was a nominee for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. After graduation, he will relocate to Washington, D.C., to work as a forward deployed software engineer helping government organizations and their partners use data more effectively and securely to support critical public missions.
“Misha is a connector and will help find the resource needed or lend a helping hand,” says Garza. “He will always be the first to lead by example and step up to the task at hand and engage the group to follow.”
