Vitaliy is an applied mathematician who holds a PhD degree in Computational Physics. His research interests include design and development of high-performance computational algorithms in application to geophysical inversion, and computational geology. He is the lead developer of the Tomofast-x software framework, a powerful 3D parallel inversion platform designed for single-domain and joint inversion of gravity, gravity gradiometry (FTG), and magnetic data—including multi-component magnetic and remanent magnetization vector inversions. Tomofast-x supports the incorporation of petrophysical and structural constraints, enabling more geologically realistic inversion outcomes. It is optimized for both shared and distributed memory systems, allowing it to scale from desktop machines to supercomputers. The platform also includes parallel wavelet compression of the sensitivity kernel for reduced memory usage and improved performance, and it supports inversion over complex surface topography. These capabilities make Tomofast-x a versatile and efficient tool for large-scale geophysical problems across a range of geological settings. For more details see https://github.com/TOMOFAST/Tomofast-x

In 2021, Vitaliy joined the Centre for Exploration Targeting to work on the MinEx project Recovery of stratigraphic data from drillhole databases. This project aims to recover stratigraphic information from legacy geological survey drillhole databases. Legacy and new drillhole data are a key constraint for geological understanding and subsequent building of 3D geological models. Company databases held by Australian Geological Surveys often contain complexly coded lithological information, but limited stratigraphic data. In this project I developed Open Source algorithms to automate the extraction of lithological and stratigraphic information with associated uncertainty quantification. The code is available at: https://github.com/Loop3D/litho2strat