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Abror Shopulatov

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MBZUAI, tilmoch.ai

Machine Learning Engineer at tilmoch.ai, where I mostly work on NLP applications for Turkic languages. At tilmoch.ai, I've worked on Tahrirchi Editor, tilmoch.ai Translator and Misollar. We also contribute to the open-source Turkic NLP community with the biggest Uzbek text corpora (UzBooks and UzCrawl), the SOTA Uzbek encode models (tahrirchi-bert-base and tahrirchi-bert-small), Karakalpak and Southern Uzbek Machine Translation models and dataset. At the same time, I am a BSc. in AI student at MBZUAI, where I am digging deeper into fundamentals of AI Engineering.

NLP
Machine Translation
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, KazakhstanMBZUAI, tilmoch.aiBSc. AI at MBZUAI
DSML member
AM

Akylbek Maxutov

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ISSAI

Research focus: any sort of evaluation methodologies for GenAI of any modality.

NLP
LLMs
Evaluations
Astana, KazakhstanISSAIMasters, Data Science, Nazarbayev University
DSML member

Alen Issayev

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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.

CV
NLP
ASR
LLMs
Astana, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanAstana IT UniversityBachelor Degree, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Astana IT University (2023-2026)
DSML member

Bibars Amangeldy

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AlfaCenter

Life Sciences, AlfaCenter.ai

Life Sciences
Almaty, KazakhstanAlfaCenter
DSML member

Bota Duisenbay

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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.

low latency vision
events
computer vision
Stockholm, KazakhstanKTHPhD, Neuromorphic event-based vision for robotics, KTH Royal institute of technology
From Kazakhstan
Open to Central Asia collaborations

Damir Assylbek

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Nazarbayev University

I am focused on deploying ML models on IoT devices

NLP
IoT
RL
Astana, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanNazarbayev UniversityBSc, Computer Science, Nazarbayev University 2020-2024
Studied in Kazakhstan
DSML member
Works on Central Asia datasets or problems

Dias Ilyas

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InflexionLab

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

NLP
STT
VLM
Shymkent, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanInflexionLabBSc, Software Engineering, Astana IT University, 2022-2025
DSML member

Dimash Rakishev

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Astana IT University, Science and Innovation Center "Artificial Intelligence"

My research interests include computer vision, multimodal AI, medical image analysis, object detection, vision-language models, and interpretable machine learning. I am particularly interested in developing robust AI systems for real-world applications and healthcare.

Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
Large Language Models
OCR
Low-Resource Languages
Astana, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanAstana IT University, Science and Innovation Center "Artificial Intelligence"
DSML member

Gani Esen

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International Information Technology University

Currently i am focused on CV based application on medical domain such as an early breast cancer detection.

NLP
CV
RL
Almaty, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanInternational Information Technology UniversityPhD, Data Science
DSML member

James Yamazaki

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NDA LAB

RL, Post training

RL
Astana, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanNDA LAB
Based in Kazakhstan
DSML member
From Kazakhstan
MG

Maiya Goloburda

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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.

NLP
Uncertianty Quantification
LLM Safety
Trustworthy ML
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, KazakhstanMBZUAI/Independent Researcher
DSML member

Milana Pak

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Kazakh-British Technical University

idk i research cool stuff

NLP
Computer Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
Almaty, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanKazakh-British Technical UniversityBS, Kazakh-British Technical University, 2024-2028
DSML member
NT

Nurdaulet Tasmurzayev

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AlfaCenter, Farabi University

Machine Learning, AI, Startups, Publications

Machine Learning
AI
Startups
Publications
Automation
Almaty, Kazakhstan, KazakhstanAlfaCenter, Farabi UniversityPhD in Intelligent Control Systems, Big Data and Machine Learning, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2022-2025)
DSML member
VM

Valentin Malykh

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International IT University

I am focusing on summarization, machine translation, but open to other topics.

NLP
LLM
agents
Moscow, Russia, KazakhstanInternational IT UniversityPhD, ISP RAS, 2019
DSML member

Yelaman Abdullin

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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.

NLP
GenAI
Deep Learning
LLMs
JEPA
Sydney, Australia, KazakhstanSchool Of Computing, Macquarie University
DSML member

Yerassyl Abilkassym

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University of British Columbia

Developing supervised and unsupervised methods to classify guppy fish social behavior within population.

Computer Vision
Unsupervised Learning
Vancouver, KazakhstanUniversity of British Columbia
DSML member

Zhenisbek Assylbekov

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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.

ML
Statistics
NLP
Fort Wayne, KazakhstanPurdue University Fort Wayne
DSML member

Константин Коломейцев

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Независимый исследователь

Архитектура ИИ моделей и способы их обучения

Large Language Model
Computer Vision
Multimodal Large Language Model
LLM
Machine Learning
Алматы, Казахстан, KazakhstanНезависимый исследовательBachelor, Computer Hardware and Software, Mukhtar Auezov South Kazakhstan Research University (2010-2014)
Based in Kazakhstan
Studied in Kazakhstan
From Kazakhstan
Open to Central Asia collaborations

Anuar Aimoldin

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.

Neuroscience
AI for finance
Prediction Markets
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, KazakhstanMBZUAIPhD, Machine Learning, MBZUAI (2025-2029)
From Kazakhstan
Works on Kazakhstan datasets or problems
Regional community contributor
Open to Central Asia collaborations

Arman Bolatov

CISPA

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

Machine Learning
Optimization
Learning Theory
Federated Learning
Abu Dhabi, KazakhstanCISPABSc, Computer Science, Nazarbayev University (2019-2024)
DSML member
Studied in Kazakhstan
Collaborates with Kazakhstan institutions
Open to Central Asia collaborations

Ayana Mussabayeva

MBZUAI

Causal representation learning and foundation models for neuroscience

ML
CRL
causality
neroscience
Abu-Dhabi, KazakhstanMBZUAIPhD, Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (2024-present)
DSML member
From Kazakhstan
Works on Kazakhstan datasets or problems
Open to Central Asia collaborations