Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Visual Geometry Group of Oxford University, and the Computer Vision group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He also was a researcher at Yandex, the largest Russian internet search company. Victor holds a PhD ("kandidat nauk") from Moscow State University (2007). His research interests are in various aspects of computer vision (visual recognition, image understanding, fine-grained classification, visual search) and biomedical image analysis.