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Oksana Hryhorivna Bihun is a mathematician, programmer, composer, poet, writer, and teacher. She was born in Ukraine. In 1993, she graduated from the Kos-Anatolsky Music School in Lviv, class of piano and bandura (Ukrainian folk instrument akin to a harp). Upon graduating from high school with honors in 1996, she studied at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. She received her specialist degree in applied mathematics with honors and two distinctions of excellence (state math and English exams) in 2001.
An active participant in the Osmoloda artistic group of the faculty and Mariyska Druzhyna of the Church of All Saints of the Ukrainian People during her student years, she regularly organized or participated in concerts and theatrical performances, singing and playing bandura or piano. She also composed music and wrote scripts for stage productions.
During her graduate studies at the same university, Dr. Bihun was a visiting scholar at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. At that time, Dr. Bihun also sang in the Galician Chamber Choir Yevshan under the direction of Ihor Dankovsky. The choir regularly toured Germany and France and won several awards. In the 2010s, it performed her piece Salve Regina.
In 2003, Dr. Bihun continued her graduate studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She earned a Masters in Applied Math (2005) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics (2009) there. Her dissertation was on the topic Approximate Isometries and Distortion Energy Functionals. From 2009 to 2020, she taught at Concordia College (Minnesota) and the University of Colorado, where she earned tenure and the rank of Associate Professor. She is the author of over 30 scientific papers, including collaborations with Francesco Calogero, and a chapter in the monograph Nonlinear Systems and Their Remarkable Mathematical Structures. Dr. Bihun discovered new integrable dynamical systems, investigated the properties of orthogonal polynomials, and developed generalizations of numerical methods for solving differential equations.
Since 2023, she has been working on training artificial intelligence in mathematics and programming. Dr. Bihun developed a mathematical model for remote work and methods for improving data quality for AI training.
Dr. Bihun’s mathematical awards and honors include 15 math research and travel grants, features on her work in the Academic Minute (2020) and the UCCS Communique (2018) , a nomination for an Outstanding Teaching Award by 20 students (2019), research paper featured in Editor's Choice of the Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (2016), Institute for Pure and Applied Math Summer Fellow (2008), and Excellent Student Award (2000).
While productively working as a math professor, she also has published poetry books The Expectation of Christmas (Kamenyar, 2010) and the two-volume set Distance to the Border and Labyrinth (Spolom, 2018).
In 2020-2022, Dr. Bihun studied clinical mental health counseling at the Minnesota State University, Moorhead. The research in her the book Underwork Yourself: How to Combine Self-care and Work (Amazon, 2022) offered fresh perspectives on balancing professional and personal life and resisting burnout culture. In particular, she introduced new models for meaningful work, cognitive-behavioral strategies for overcoming occupational stress, and practical steps for protecting oneself from psychological abuse in the workplace.
In 2022-2025, Dr. Bihun taught math and reading to children at Sylvan Learning Center in Fargo, ND. She sang with the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists in 2022-2025.
Dr. Bihun is the composer of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Choral Public Domain Library, 2024) for mixed choir, dedicated to all those who gave their lives for Ukraine's freedom in the war that has continued since 2014. The liturgy blends traditions of Ukrainian choral music with contemporary trends in global heritage. She has also composed Salve Regina (in Italian, mixed choir), Ukraine and Wedding March (piano), Nadobranich, Lisy (voice and guitar, Ihor Pavluk’s poetry), Oy u Poli Mohyla, Meni Vvyzhayetsya Hora Holhota (voice and bandura, Shevchenko’s and her own poetry), and others.
Dr. Bihun is a member of the National Writers’ Society of Ukraine, academician of the International Academy of Literature and Arts of Ukraine, and laureate of the Panteleimon Kulish (2019) and the Kateryna Mandryk-Kuybida (2020) literary awards.
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