Sergey is a cofounder and CTO of Fantastic Voyage Labs, a start-up developing a learning platform that uses extended reality, learning engineering, and generative AI to help people acquire hands-on skills.

Sergey is a machine learning expert with over 20 years of experience in industry and academia both as an engineer and a scientist, now applying his expertise to build products helping people learn. Over the past decade, he was primarily developing recommender systems for e-commerce, improving product search recommendations for hundreds of millions of online shoppers at Amazon and Facebook Marketplace, building a platform for online advertisement campaigns at Walmart, and developing one of the first enterprise machine learning platforms at Skytree. Prior to that, Sergey was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics at Purdue University where he taught, supervised, and mentored undergraduate and graduate students while collaborating with atmospheric scientists to build statistical models to forecast precipitation. His research has been published in the top machine learning venues and atmospheric scciences journals.

Sergey earned his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine in 2005.