Research Assistant · machine learning for drug discovery
Nazarbayev University — AI/ML Lab
Nazarbayev University is a research university in Kazakhstan.
Aug 2023 — PresentLed development and release of a 96M-parameter multitask transformer covering 683 biochemical endpoints; reported leading RMSE on three benchmarks.
• Designed and trained CheMLT-F, a dual-encoder DeBERTa model that fuses molecular (SMILES) and protein-sequence representations to serve 683 endpoints—toxicity and bioactivity classification, physicochemical property regression, and drug–target affinity—from one shared backbone (96M parameters, 34M trainable).
• Pretrained both encoders from scratch across 6× RTX 4090: masked language modelling on ~58M PubChem molecules and 1.8M protein sequences, with byte-level BPE tokenizers trained on each corpus.
Research Assistant · explainable AI for neural decoding
Nazarbayev University — BCI Lab
Nazarbayev University is a research university in Kazakhstan.
Jun 2021 — Dec 2021Applied explainable AI to EEG classifiers, tested relevance-guided model pruning, and built a Unity environment for BCI experiments.
• Applied layerwise relevance propagation to ERP/EEG classifiers, generating relevance heatmaps and scalp maps that identified which time windows and channels drove each decision.
• Used LRP relevance scores to prune network pathways, quantifying how far model complexity could be reduced before predictive performance degraded.
• Built a 3D BCI training and testing environment in Unity for motor-rehabilitation experiments.
Software Engineer Intern; Data Science Intern
Institute of Information and Computational Technologies
Jan 2019 — Aug 2019Built research data visualization and collection tools, and prepared datasets for internal projects during two internships.
• Built a Unity-based 3D visualizer that let in-house researchers explore and sanity-check high-dimensional datasets interactively.
• Developed an online markup tool for visual data collection as a full-stack web application (Angular front end, Django REST API), including query and rendering optimization.
• Collected, preprocessed, and analyzed datasets for the institute's internal research projects.
Research Mentor (informal)
Nazarbayev University — AI/ML Lab
Nazarbayev University is a research university in Kazakhstan.
PresentMentors two student groups working on polymer property prediction and explainable drug design.
• Advised two student project groups—polymer property prediction and explainable drug design—in biweekly meetings, helping them scope research questions, structure experiments, and set direction between sessions.
Teaching Assistant · Deep Learning; Algorithms
Nazarbayev University
Nazarbayev University is a research university in Kazakhstan.
Assisted teaching Deep Learning and Algorithms courses.
• Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning (Fall 2021, Spring 2022) and Algorithms (Spring 2021, Fall 2022).
