He gained his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (2009) and holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (2013). Alexey is responsible for developing software for environmental effects simulation. He is best known for pioneering snow simulation in Frozen (2013), fat tissue simulation in Zootopia (2016) and also for developing fluid solver Splash, which was used to create the majority of the water effects in Moana (2016).