Golovnev’s research interests include computational complexity, algorithms, pseudorandomness, learning theory, and cryptography. He is currently an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University and a visiting professor in the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. Previously, Golovnev was a research scientist at Columbia University and Yahoo Research, and a Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from New York University in 2017.