His research interests focus on making sense of chemical data with molecular modeling and machine learning. Before joining UNC in 2013, Olexandr was a post-doctoral research fellow at Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at a government research lab. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. in computational chemistry. He also is the recipient of 2017 "Emerging Technology Award" from the American Chemical Society and the GPU computing award from NVIDIA in 2014.