Nikolay's interest is in applying AI methods, especially computer vision, to improve and accelerate drug development pipelines. He has background in computer science with a PhD in machine learning and deep learning.

Prior to AstraZeneca, Nikolay was leading algorithm development of Inify, a successful decision support tool to empower pathologists, at ContextVision in Stockholm. He also worked as R&D AI engineer at Samsung Electronics in South Korea developing vacuum cleaning robots. He has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications including several US patents on AI applications.