From Kitob to the World.
Asliddin Boynazarov — economics olympiad medalist, builder of small AI things, and a speaker who learned his voice on a school stage in Karshi.
For centuries, the Silk Road carried ideas through the cities of Uzbekistan. I grew up in one of them — Kitob, a small town in Kashkadarya. In 2021 I packed one bag and left for a boarding school in Karshi. Since then the road has taken me to olympiad stages, a TEDx microphone, a classroom in China and the Central Bank. This is that road.
Every stop
taught me something.
Kitob
Where it starts. A small city in Kashkadarya, a long way from everywhere.
The Arrival
New city. New school. First medal.
In my first year after transferring to the Presidential School in Karshi, our team took third place in Zakovat — Uzbekistan's “What? Where? When?” team quiz game.
It was the moment I understood that the boy from Kitob could compete with anyone — as long as he kept asking questions.
Zakovat · Bronze · Grade 7The Voice
I was not born confident on stage. I built it — one notiqlik class, one TEDx talk, one amphitheater speech at a time.
TEDxKarPS · May 2025
“How social media shapes how we see ourselves” — my talk under the theme Ideas Empowered.
Playing Babur
On the school stage I played Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur — the poet-king who left the Fergana Valley and founded an empire. Another boy from Uzbekistan who went far.
Spelling Bee
As class representative in grade 10, I helped organise the school spelling bee with the International Explorers Club.
- Notiqlik — school oratory clubExtracurricular
- TEDxKarPS talk2025
- Amphitheater speeches20+
- Milliy Dastur launchPresenter
- Class representative24 students
The Economist
Economics is how I make sense of the world — why some towns grow and others wait. Out of thousands of students, five are chosen to represent Uzbekistan at the International Economics Olympiad. I was chosen twice.
IEO 2025
IEO 2026
Best in Finance
Hon. mention
Silver in Baku, 2025.
Bronze in Shenzhen, 2026.
At the 8th IEO in Baku I won silver, placed 8th in Finance out of 240+ participants and received a Best in Finance honourable mention — a chest badge (ko‘krak nishoni). A year later I returned for the 9th IEO in Shenzhen, China and brought home bronze.
Silver medal“In the open-questions round I realised economics isn't only theory. The cases showed where it actually helps — in negotiation, in why law matters, in property rights.”
Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Research Intern · Monetary policy
9th IEO, Shenzhen — Bronze
National team
8th IEO, Baku — Silver
8th of 240+ in Finance · Best in Finance honourable mention
EFI Olympiad — 7th nationally
1st in Round 1
Economics A* · Physics A* · Mathematics A
Cambridge AICE
Along the East
In grade 11 ten students from Uzbekistan went to the Yinghua Academic Camp in Tianjin, China on scholarship — four through olympiad wins, six selected by the Ministry. I was one of those six. I led a multinational team in business simulations, studied Chinese language and heritage — and walked the other end of the Silk Road.
The Builder
Ideas are cheap until you ship them. These are the things I built — some worked, some taught me why they didn't.
econproof.app
A free Cambridge 9708 Economics essay marker I designed and built. A Level students paste an essay and get an estimated mark, AO1/AO2/AO3 feedback and paragraph-level comments — so they understand how their essays are really rated. Used by 20–30 students.
AI Chatbot Venture
AI chatbots that help small businesses answer customers automatically. I pitched them door-to-door and learned more from the “no”s than the code.
Shadow Index
Five teammates, one working AI prototype — and 2nd place.
Delegate at the National AI Forum
In the main hall for the President's address, alongside guests from Google Cloud and Meta. One of two school representatives at “5 Million Uzbek Prompters”.
Metal resistivity
Co-author of a peer-reviewed paper in the Indonesian Journal of Innovation and Applied Science. Ran the experiments, analysed the data, drafted the manuscript.
Robots & BattleBots
Sustainable farming model, a BattleBot, and a photoresistor laser marksmanship trainer for military prep lessons.
Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Reviewing literature, synthesising policy papers and contributing to empirical analysis on monetary policy alongside the bank's research staff. From olympiad problems to real-world inflation.
Giving Back
Someone opened doors for me. So I hold them open for others.
of mentoring 15 IELTS and 3 SAT students. The group's average IELTS rose from 6.5 to 7.5.
I trained a dance team and danced in a charity concert that raised 6,000,000 soʻm — new armchairs for an elderly home.
The road continues.
Next stop —
Hong Kong?
I'm looking for a place to keep learning — and a team to keep building with. If you're building something interesting — or reading my application — I'd love to hear from you.