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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 publication223 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Neuroscience
AI for finance
Prediction Markets

Bibars Amangeldy

Life Sciences Reseacher, AlfaCenter.ai

AlfaCenter

Life Sciences, AlfaCenter.ai

20 publications84 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 publications78 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Machine Learning
AI
Startups

Arman Bolatov

PhD in ML and Optimization

CISPA

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

16 publications51 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
Machine Learning
Optimization
Learning Theory
DO

Daniil Orel

Daniil Orel research profile

MBZUAI

Evals, datasets

15 publications33 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 publications17 OpenAlex citationsAbu-Dhabi
ML
CRL
causality

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 publications7 OpenAlex citationsStockholm
low latency vision
events
computer vision

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

Damir Assylbek

Damir Assylbek research profile

Nazarbayev University

I am focused on deploying ML models on IoT devices

3 publications2 OpenAlex citationsAstana, Kazakhstan
NLP
IoT
RL
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

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
AS

Abror Shopulatov

ML Engineer working on Turkic languages

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.

2 publications0 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
NLP
Machine Translation

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 publication0 OpenAlex citationsKaskelen
NLP
Machine Learning
Data Science

Agzam Shamsadinov

NLP researcher

Independent researcher

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1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
NLP

Yeraly Gainulla

NLP researcher, working on coding ai & kazakh language models

Aqbobek lab

I have worked on Kazakh language models such as KazBERT(Eraly-ml/KazBERT) and others, recently i won shared task at SemEval workshop it was about how to detect ai in code and how to detect hidden ai code, system paper of our work was accepted and it will be published in ACLAnthology.

1 publicationOpenAlex citations unavailableAktobe
NLP

Milana Pak

NLP/ML Researcher

Kazakh-British Technical University

idk i research cool stuff

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
NLP
Computer Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
AM

Akylbek Maxutov

Data Scientist / Researcher

ISSAI

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

1 publicationOpenAlex citations unavailableAstana
NLP
LLMs
Evaluations

Rustem Takhanov

Rustem Takhanov research profile

Nazarbayev University

My research focuses on the interplay between machine learning, optimization, and mathematics. I develop algorithmic and computational methods for solving challenging problems in machine learning theory, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. A recurring theme of my work is the use of large-scale optimization and high-performance computing as tools for scientific discovery. My contributions span machine learning theory, kernel methods, natural language processing, graph algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and high-dimensional geometry. In recent years, I have become particularly interested in computational approaches to mathematical research, where modern optimization techniques and GPU-based computation can uncover structures that are difficult to access through traditional analytical methods alone. More broadly, I aim to build bridges between theoretical foundations and practical computation, developing methods that are both mathematically rigorous and computationally effective.

Astana, Kazakhstan
Machine learning theory
optimization
theoretical computer science

Dimash Rakishev

Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher specializing in Computer Vision, OCR, and Applied AI

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.

Astana, Kazakhstan
Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
Large Language Models

Yerassyl Abilkassym

Computer Vision x Biology Research

University of British Columbia

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

Vancouver
Computer Vision
Unsupervised Learning

Dias Ilyas

NLP Researcher

InflexionLab

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

Shymkent, Kazakhstan
NLP
STT
VLM