He received a B.S. degree in Physics from Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine in 2001, a M.S. degree in Physics from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX in 2007. He did his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA from 2007-2013. In 2014, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Science at Cornell University.