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Serge Gorshkov

CTO

DataVera LLC

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

4 publications0 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Knowledge Graphs
Ontologies
NLP
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

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
NT

Nariman Tursaliev

CV NLP Researcher

Researcher

2 year Master degree Student

Almaty, Kazakhstan
ML CV NLP
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

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 publications15 OpenAlex citationsAlmaty
Computer Vision
AS

Arystan Shokan

Geometry researcher

Independent researcher

Interested in geometry

Astana, Kazakhstan
Geometry
YI

Yerassyl Iskakov

Yerassyl Iskakov research profile

Information Systems, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

Information Technologies graduate and researcher. Published research in modeling, forecasting, and processing multidisciplinary area of AI. Open to collaboration on projects and research in machine learning and AI — the best way to reach me is by email.

Astana, Kazakhstan
machine learning
data mining

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
YO

Yelzhas Omarov

Research Assistant

Nazarbayev University

Interdisciplinary researcher and developer performing technical coursework and applied research in computer vision and generative models. Experienced in deep learning model fine-tuning, diffusion-based image generation.

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAstana city
Computer Vision & Generative Models
ZG

Zhantore Galymzhan

Zhantore Galymzhan research profile

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University

Researched on Kazakh NLP, open for NLP/RL collaborations

Astana, 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

Nurassyl Beisenbek

NLP Researcher low resource language

Astana IT University

recreating the Kazakh heritage and culture

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAstana, Kazakhstan
NLP
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
DO

Daniil Orel

Daniil Orel research profile

MBZUAI

Evals, datasets

15 publications35 OpenAlex citationsAbu Dhabi
NLP

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
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

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

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

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

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

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