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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.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
NLP
Machine Translation

Agzam Shamsadinov

NLP researcher

Independent researcher

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1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
NLP
AD

Aizere Dauletbayeva

Trying different areas currently

University student

Have written courseworks about brain drain in Kazakhstan and its impact to economic growth

Almaty
NLP
CV
biotechnology
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

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
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 publications15 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Affective Computing
Educational Data Mining
Recommender Systems

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 publication234 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Neuroscience
AI for finance
Prediction Markets

Arman Bolatov

PhD in ML and Optimization

CISPA

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

16 publications54 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
Machine Learning
Optimization
Learning Theory
AS

Arystan Shokan

Geometry researcher

Independent researcher

Interested in geometry

Astana, Kazakhstan
Geometry
AK

Atay Kim

NO, FNO, Physical Simulations

Nazarbayev University

Research and simulations of PDE problems by using Fourier Neural Operator's architecture of neural networks.

Astana
FNO
PINN
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

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 publication2 OpenAlex citationsKaskelen
NLP
Machine Learning
Data Science

Bibars Amangeldy

Life Sciences Reseacher, AlfaCenter.ai

AlfaCenter

Life Sciences, AlfaCenter.ai

20 publications132 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Life Sciences
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

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

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
DO

Daniil Orel

Daniil Orel research profile

MBZUAI

Evals, datasets

15 publications35 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
NLP
DT

Denis Ten

Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University

Working as a Research Assistant at Nazarbayev University.

Astana
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
IoT

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

Dias Tashev

Machine Learning Engineer | Medical Imaging AI

Cerebra AI; Harvard University

My research sits at the intersection of machine learning and clinical medicine, focused on how AI can support doctors in real clinical environments

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsBoston, United States
Computer vison in Radiology

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

Gani Esen

Deep Learning oriented reasercher working on a medical domain

International Information Technology University

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

Almaty, Kazakhstan
NLP
CV
RL

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

Ilyas Zh.

Cryptographer working on solving hard problems

independent researcher

Im open for everything, just hit me in tg. Be straight, say what you want.

1 publicationOpenAlex citations unavailableAstana, Kazakhstan
Math
Cryptography
LLM