About us

Our team

Andrey Doronichev

[ Founder / CEO ]

Serial Tech Entrepreneur

Former Director of Product at Google

Vlad Vinogradov

[ Co-founder / CTO of Optic ]

AI research lead with 10 years of experience

Creator of Optic’s ultra-fast similarity search engine

Roman Doronin

[ Co-founder / CPO of Optic ]

AI lab operation leader

Former CEO of EORA.AI (80+ AI projects for Pepsico, Nestle, etc)

Dr. Alexander Tropsha

[ Advisor ]

Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill

Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics and Data Science at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

h-index: 84, Citations: 34,560

Dr. Martin Gleave

[ Advisor ]

Chairman of the Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC

Co-Founder and Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre

Surgeon-scientist focused on resistance in cancer

Founded OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals and patented several anti-cancer drugs

h-Index: 122, Citations : >60,000

Dr. Olexandr Isayev

[ Advisor ]

Associate Professor, Chemistry at Carnegie Melon University

Computational Chemistry, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Drug Discovery

h-index: 39, Citations: 10,510

Nikhil Chandok

[ Strategy Advisor ]

CPO at Circle

Creator of USDC stablecoin with 10's of millions of users

Led the AR Product team at Meta

Early employee at YouTube and ran YouTube Music, Live, Gaming, etc.

Dr. Anna Kostikova

[ Science Advisor ]

Senior Director at Monte Rosa Therapeutics

Ex-Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Novartis

Expert in AI and machine learning for drug discovery and development

Completed Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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