Alima Bazenova

Research Assistant – AI for Clinical CT Imaging

Nazarbayev University

Research university in Kazakhstan.

Built a CT-based pipeline for osteoporosis and sarcopenia screening in 280 patients; automated vertebra and psoas segmentation with mean Dice 0.89 against expert-corrected masks.

• Developed a deep-learning pipeline for opportunistic osteoporosis and sarcopenia screening from routine lumbar-spine CT, linking L3 psoas muscle biomarkers to DXA bone mineral density in 280 patients. • Automated vertebra and psoas segmentation on a multi-vendor cohort (5 manufacturers): baseline mean Dice 0.89 vs expert-corrected masks; the validated annotation set is used to fine-tune the model and train CNN classifiers for osteoporosis prediction.

Research Assistant – Automated Microscopy & Image Analysis

Eötvös Loránd University

Research university in Hungary, also known as ELTE.

Automated microscopy and image-analysis workflows, released a pollen detection dataset, and benchmarked detectors with leakage-free validation; also trained a chironomid classifier on 27,774 images.

• Engineered an automated microscope-scanning and live-detection workflow replacing manual slide counting (75% faster); relative abundances matched an expert palynologist on 3 fully independent slides (Pearson r = 0.86, Spearman ρ = 0.80). • Built and released a 22-class detection dataset (3,001 images, 8,460 boxes) and benchmarked 7 CNN/transformer detectors (YOLOv8–v12, YOLO26, RT-DETR; 21 runs) under a leakage-free depth-based split: best YOLOv12l reached 0.496 pollen mAP@0.5, while a random split inflated it to 0.749 (+51%).

Junior ML Engineer – Video Behaviour Recognition

Green Eye Ltd

Built a roughly 20,000-frame/clip behaviour dataset and benchmarked computer-vision approaches and transfer-learning baselines across 15+ configurations.

• Built a 6-class behaviour dataset (∼20K labelled frames/clips); benchmarked 10+ CV approaches and pretrained-CNN transfer-learning baselines (15+ configurations) by precision, recall, macro F1 and confusion matrices.

MSc, Environmental Sciences

Eötvös Loránd University

BSc, Biological Sciences

Nazarbayev University