About me

I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, Core Academic Member at Mila - Quebec AI Institute and a regular member of Institut Courtois developing novel methods in generative modelling, Monte Carlo methods, Optimal Transport, and applying those to solve fundamental problems in natural sciences, e.g. finding eigenstates of the many-body Schrodinger equation, simulating molecular dynamics, predicting the development of biological cells, conformational sampling, and protein folding. Previously, I did two postdocs: at Vector Institute with Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Alireza Makhzani; at the University of Amsterdam with Max Welling.

I was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine, and at the age of 13 I started competing in Ukrainian olympiads on math and physics. Since then I’ve been interested in studying and understanding nature in all its forms from abstract (math, physics, computer science) to practical fields (history, biology, humanities, which I also try to study in my free time).

On Leave I’m currently on leave working at Anthropic with Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.

Regarding the war I know teachers who organized the Ukrainian Physics Olympiad when I was a kid but now fight for Ukraine with an AR in their hands. Ukraine needs help now more than ever. Here’s a list of organizations where you can make a donation.

Mentoring I used to devote part of my time to mentoring at Brave Generation. Regardless of your background, don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about research or academia.

Research

Year	Work	Venue

Talks

Steering Generative Models: From Mathematics to Biomolecular Design at Chem AI, NYU, 2026
Monte Carlo Methods in the Age of Generative Modeling at ICSDS, 2025
Transferable Monte Carlo Methods via Generative Modeling at the UQAM Mathematics Department, 2025
Self-Refining Training for Amortized Density Functional Theory at Microsoft New England, 2025
Controlling Diffusion Models at Inference Time at Chalmers AI4Science, 2025
Controlling Diffusion Models at Inference Time at the KAIST seminar, 2025
Doob’s Lagrangian at the join seminar of IVADO, Institut Courtois, Perimeter Institute, 2024
Wasserstein Lagrangian Flows at LoGG’s seminar, 2024
Action Matching talk at LoGG’s seminar, 2023
Action Matching talk at Shannon’s Bandwagon, 2023
Langevin dynamics for sampling and global optimization, 2019
Sparse variational dropout and variance networks, 2018

Email

You can find my email in my papers.