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Amirzhan Idrissov

Student researcher exploring language models and mathematical reasoning

Kokshetau Bilim-Innovation Lyceum, Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

I am a school student in Kazakhstan interested in how language models solve mathematical problems, especially in algebra and geometry. My first research paper compared Qwen2.5-Instruct models with 1.5B, 3B and 7B parameters on 287 olympiad problems from Omni-MATH. I examined how performance varies across mathematical domains and difficulty levels, and whether missing diagrams explain geometry errors. Larger models improved much more in algebra than in geometry, and removing problems with missing diagrams did not close the gap. I would like to continue exploring mathematical reasoning, model evaluation and error analysis.

1 publicationOpenAlex citations unavailableAstana
Language models
mathematical reasoning
LLM evaluation
AA

Abzal Aidakhmetov

NLP Researcher in AI Safety

Sapienza University of Rome, GLADIA Lab

Adversarial Attacks in LLMs

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsRome, Italy
AI Safety
Adversarial Attacks
Interpretability

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

Daniel Dragonevskiy

ML/LLM researcher: inference optimization, computer vision and ensemble forecasting

Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University, Moscow / ML Engineer at AIRA

My research sits at the intersection of ML, LLMs and computer vision, with a focus on inference optimization (KV-cache compression, quantization) and ensemble methods for large-scale forecasting. In my recent paper (IJCISIM 2026, DOI: 10.70917/ijcisim-2026-4333) I showed analytically and empirically that geometric log-space ensembling is the MAPE-optimal aggregator for log-normal targets, reaching MAPE ≈ 4.77% on an 18,000-store retail forecasting challenge. Open directions: efficient LLM inference, vision-language models, and transferring multiplicative-error ensembling to new domains

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsMuscat
LLM
Computer Vision
Optimization

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

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

Nurassyl Beisenbek

NLP Researcher low resource language

Astana IT University

recreating the Kazakh heritage and culture

1 publication0 OpenAlex citationsAstana, Kazakhstan
NLP

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
Open to collaborate onCo-authoringdatasets

Dinmukhammed Serik

MSc Data Science student at KBTU, data engineer

KBTU, School of Information Technology and Engineering; State Credit Bureau

First-year master's student in Data Science at KBTU with a background in data engineering at the State Credit Bureau. Interested in machine learning research and in applying ML to large-scale financial and credit data. Planning PhD applications in Europe and looking for a research group to collaborate with.

Almaty, Kazakhstan
machine learning
reinforcement learning
NLP
AS

Ayazhan Serik

ML researcher

Nazarbayev University

Currently focused on AI in medicine, especially on detection abnormalities in medical images

Almaty, Kazakhstan
Computer Vision in Medicine
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
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.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
NLP
Machine Translation
NT

Nariman Tursaliev

CV NLP Researcher

Researcher

2 year Master degree Student

Almaty, Kazakhstan
ML CV NLP
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
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

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