Hey, I’m Slava 👋

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I am a mathematician turned drug hunter.

These days, I’m spending most of my waking hours running a startup in San Francisco together with my dear friends, Ian and Amber.

I was born in Vodorezovo, a Russian village with a population of twenty. I grew up in Krasnoyarsk, where I went to the same school for eleven years. Then I fell in love — with math — which is a long story. But it led me to Moscow, and two years later, to Stanford, where I earned a PhD in mathematics. I taught at UNC Chapel Hill for a year before deciding that academia no longer worked for me — so I started a company.

Some writing:

• How I Fell in Love with Math
• On SieveStack
• My Old Math Page