Alexey Vlasenko currently serves as Associate Director at Merck since April 2023. Previously, Alexey worked at Ordaos Bio from April 2020 to December 2022 as Principal Computational Scientist, leading research and software development in computational protein drug design and validation. Prior roles include Senior Computational Scientist at Ordaos Bio, Research Affiliate, and Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Astrophysics at North Carolina State University from August 2015 to December 2019, and Graduate Student Researcher in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of California San Diego from September 2007 to August 2015. Earlier experience includes positions at the University of California, Davis, as a Computational and Data Analyst and Research Assistant. Alexey holds a PhD in Physics from UC San Diego and a BS in Biochemistry from UC Davis.