Ivan Semenist is engaged in teaching at the Faculty in addition to his administrative work. In particular, he teaches such disciplines as:
Introduction to Oriental Studies
Ukraine's relations with the countries of the East
Literature of the countries of the East

In addition, Ivan Semenist:
- Current Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Journal of Sinology Studies
-President of the Ukrainian Association of Chinese Language Teachers
- Expert in Times Higher Education 2024 Global Academic Reputation Survey
- Expert in the QS Global Employer Survey 2022 / 2023.
- Expert of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.
Head of the regional direction:
- 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA 2023), Bali, Indonesia, Regional Chair (materials are indexed in the Scopus database);
-7th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA 2022), Yokohama, Japan, Regional Chair (materials are indexed in the Scopus database).
Before that, Ivan Semenist worked at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2013, he joined the team of Orientalists at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.

During his career, Ivan Semenist has written many publications indexed in the most prestigious journals in Europe and Asia, and has been a member of the Organising Committee of many renowned conferences, for example:
- 12th International Conference on Management and Education Innovation (ICMEI 2024), Nagoya, Japan (materials are indexed in the Scopus scientometric database);
- 2024 the 12th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET), Yamaguchi, Japan (materials are indexed in the Scopus database);
- The 14th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2023, Florida, USA (proceedings are indexed in the Scopus database);
- 2023 International Joint Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CCVPR 2023), Oxford, the United Kingdom (materials are indexed in the Scopus database);
- 4th-5th International Conference on Computer Science and Technologies in Education (CSTE 2023), Xi'an, China (materials are indexed in the Scopus database);
- 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2023) Fujisawa (Kanagawa), Japan (materials are indexed in the Scopus and WoS science-based databases);
- The 16th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2022, Florida, USA (materials are indexed in the Scopus scientometric database);
- 10th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2022) in Matsue, Japan (materials are indexed in the Scopus database);
- The Sixth International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE2023), Wuhan, China.
etc.

The Dean of the Faculty actively implements scientific activities in such areas as Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Relations of Ukraine with the Countries of the East, Methods of Teaching Oriental Languages, Language Communication in the Digital Environment.