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Anuar Aimoldin

AI Researcher

MBZUAI

AI researcher and machine learning engineer focused on practical AI systems for real-world applications. My interests include AI for finance and neuroscience, applied machine learning, computer vision, healthcare AI, and optimization. I actively participate in research competitions, including Kaggle and NeurIPS, and achieved Kaggle Competitions Master status with a top-14 global ranking. Beyond research, I contribute to AI olympiads, education, and community building.

1 publication240 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Neuroscience
AI for finance
Prediction Markets
Open to collaborate onСоавторство

Bibars Amangeldy

Life Sciences Reseacher, AlfaCenter.ai

AlfaCenter

Life Sciences, AlfaCenter.ai

20 publications151 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Life Sciences
NT

Nurdaulet Tasmurzayev

AI researcher who works in Healthcare and Life Sciences

AlfaCenter, Farabi University

Machine Learning, AI, Startups, Publications

20 publications135 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Machine Learning
AI
Startups
Open to collaborate onAIMachine LearningPublications

Arman Bolatov

PhD in ML and Optimization

CISPA

Я занимаюсь оптимизацией, машинным (федеративным) обучением и теорией обучения. Открыт к коллаборациям!

16 publications56 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
Machine Learning
Optimization
Learning Theory
DO

Daniil Orel

Daniil Orel research profile

MBZUAI

Evals, datasets

15 publications35 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
NLP

Zhenisbek Assylbekov

Educator and Researcher in ML/Stats

Purdue University Fort Wayne

My current research focuses on the fundamental aspects of learning, specifically exploring benign overfitting, long-tailed distributions, and the hardness of learning.

14 publications30 OpenAlex citationsFort Wayne
ML
Statistics
NLP

Ayana Mussabayeva

ML researcher (causal representation learning for neuroscience)

MBZUAI

Causal representation learning and foundation models for neuroscience

5 publications19 OpenAlex citationsAbu-Dhabi
ML
CRL
causality
Open to collaborate onCo-authoringdatasetsmentoring
AS

Amina Shaikym

ML researcher working on affect detection in educational data

University of Pennsylvania (Visiting Scholar)

Currently building a multi-class affect detection pipeline that classifies student emotional states from behavioral and keystroke data across 243 students and 400+ features. Using student-level nested GroupKFold cross-validation to ensure leakage-safe evaluation, with Random Forest and XGBoost as primary models, and addressing feature selection stability via rank-averaging across folds.

3 publications16 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Affective Computing
Educational Data Mining
Recommender Systems

Ulzhan Bissarinova

Research Scientist

Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Nazarbayev University

Research areas: 1. Neuromophic Vision: event cameras, face and facial landmark detection, large-scale dataset creation 2. Remote Sensing: City Identification via Satellite data, City Sustainability prediciton via Satellite Data, Construction Sites Detection and Segmentation via Satellite data (Instance Segmentation)

3 publications16 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Computer Vision

Bota Duisenbay

PhD student on low latency neuromorphic event based vision

KTH

PhD researcher at KTH working on neuromorphic event cameras and low-latency sensor fusion for real-time human-robot collaboration. My work combines deep learning and spiking neural networks for depth estimation and object tracking, using a 7-DOF robotic arm and event cameras as the primary experimental platform.

2 publications8 OpenAlex citationsStockholm
low latency vision
events
computer vision
Open to collaborate onco-authoring

Yelaman Abdullin

PhD Student

School Of Computing, Macquarie University

I work on information elicitation in goal oriented dialogues. I'm also interested in latent reasoning, knowledge representation and neural memory for LLMs.

2 publications6 OpenAlex citationsSydney, Australia
NLP
GenAI
Deep Learning

Batyr Sharimbayev

AI/ML Researcher @SDU University | NLP & Machine Learning

SDU University

I am a Ph.D. researcher in Computer Science at SDU University, working on NLP, machine learning, and AI-generated text detection. My research focuses on detecting AI-generated and AI-obfuscated text using transformer models, multilingual NLP, and contextual representations.

1 publication4 OpenAlex citationsKaskelen
NLP
Machine Learning
Data Science

Damir Assylbek

Damir Assylbek research profile

Nazarbayev University

I am focused on deploying ML models on IoT devices

3 publications3 OpenAlex citationsAstana, Kazakhstan
NLP
IoT
RL

Dias Ilyas

NLP Researcher

InflexionLab

Code-Switching aware STT KK-RU-EN Code-Switching audio dataset OCR for Kazakh Hand-Written Text

3 publications2 OpenAlex citationsShymkent, Kazakhstan
NLP
STT
VLM
Open to collaborate oninferenceSTTTTS
AM

Assylbek Mukhametzhanov

Research Associate at NARXOZ University

NARXOZ University

I research multimodal deep learning for mental-health assessment — detecting suicide risk, depression, and emotion from text, audio, and video using transformer ensembles and fine-tuned LLMs on real clinical and speech-emotion datasets.

6 publications1 OpenAlex citationАлмата
NLP
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Open to collaborate onco-authoringdatasets
SG

Serge Gorshkov

CTO

DataVera LLC

Combining ontologies with LLMs to extract, enrich and use formalized knowledge

5 publications1 OpenAlex citationAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Knowledge Graphs
Ontologies
NLP
Open to collaborate onCo-authoring
MG

Maiya Goloburda

NLP researcher

MBZUAI/Independent Researcher

My primary area of interest is Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs. In very simple terms, I am trying to understand how we can determine when a model knows - and doesn't know - what it is talking about. I also have some interest in LLM safety and trustworthiness, but more so as a casual learner than a practitioner.

2 publications1 OpenAlex citationAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
NLP
Uncertianty Quantification
LLM Safety

Alen Issayev

Researcher

Astana IT University

My current research focus is centered on Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Multimodal AI, with a strong interest in document understanding, OCR, vision-language models, and LLM-based systems. I am currently exploring synthetic data generation for low-resource Turkic languages, especially for OCR and document recognition tasks. This includes building realistic multilingual document datasets, designing generation pipelines, and preparing data for fine-tuning modern OCR/VLM models. Another important direction of my work is the development of practical AI systems based on RAG, LLM agents, and multimodal reasoning. I am interested in turning research ideas into usable AI tools for real-world domains such as document processing, legal technology, education, and urban surveillance.

1 publication1 OpenAlex citationAstana, Kazakhstan
CV
NLP
ASR
Open to collaborate onCo-authoringdatasets

Константин Коломейцев

Работаю над архитектурами ИИ моделей и способами их обучения

Независимый исследователь

Архитектура ИИ моделей и способы их обучения

1 publication1 OpenAlex citationАлматы, Казахстан
Large Language Model
Computer Vision
Multimodal Large Language Model

Henry Gagnier

NLP and CV research working on Kazakh

University of Rochester

I work on CV and NLP for Kazakh and other low-resoruce languages.

11 publications0 OpenAlex citationsPittsford
Multilingual NLP
Kazakh
Digraphia
Open to collaborate onCo-authoring

Emil Kim

AI Researcher | Biomedical Signals, Medical Imaging & Healthcare AI

Pusan National University

Research in biomedical AI, focusing on EEG representation learning, medical imaging, and multimodal EEG-to-fMRI translation using efficient deep learning architectures.

2 publications0 OpenAlex citationsBusan, Korea, South
Biosignal Analysis
Multimodal Representation Learning
Foundation Models
BS

Bogdan Suvernev

LLM Researcher | Reinforcement Learning & AI for Education

University

My research focuses on large language models, reinforcement learning, and AI for education. I am particularly interested in post-training methods for LLMs, including PPO, DPO, and GRPO, as well as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), efficient model training, and reasoning capabilities. My recent work explores Socratic tutoring with LLMs, reinforcement learning for improving educational dialogue systems, and scalable distributed training of foundation models. I also have experience building diffusion models, reinforcement learning agents, and high-performance AI systems from scratch in PyTorch. I am interested in collaborating on research related to LLM alignment, reasoning, AI agents, and open-source foundation models.

2 publications0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Reinforcement Learning
AI for Education

Kozykorpesh Kydyrbek

Kazakh researcher

independent researcher

actively co-authoring PhD doctors from Europe Universities in Project of OCD solution by AR(1) prediction and Math Probability Theory

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Medicine
Math
Calculus
Open to collaborate onCo-authoring

Asyl Barakov

RecSys researcher

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research on the latest methods for identifying preferences.

1 publicationOpenAlex citations unavailableAstana
Recomendation systems
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