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🇰🇿 AI Researchers

Curated registry of ai researchers in Kazakhstan's AI ecosystem.

Showing 10 of 10

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Assylbek Isakhov

Professor and Vice-Rector for Research at Al-Farabi KazNU; leading researcher in high-performance computing, mathematical modeling, and AI simulations.

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Huseyin Atakan Varol

Founding Director of ISSAI (Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence) at Nazarbayev University; leading architect of KazLLM, Soyle, TurkicASR, and sovereign AI initiatives in Kazakhstan.

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Kuanysh Yergaliev

Harvard T.H. Chan graduate, former Vice Minister of Science and Higher Education; champion of academic AI initiatives, supercomputing, and STEM talent.

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Madina Mansurova

Head of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Department at Al-Farabi KazNU; academic leader in Kazakh NLP and educational AI frameworks.

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Mukhamet Nurpeiissov

AI Research Engineer at ISSAI; lead developer of KazQAD (Kazakh Question Answering Dataset) and natural language evaluation frameworks.

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Rustam Akhtyamov

Director of Digital Engineering and AI Center at Satbayev University; researcher in industrial computer vision and predictive maintenance systems.

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Rustem Yeshpanov

Senior Data & AI Specialist at ISSAI; key researcher in multilingual dataset curation, Kazakh NLP benchmarks, and cultural adaptation.

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Saida Mussakhojayeva

Senior AI Researcher at ISSAI; lead scientist behind sovereign Kazakh speech technology models (Kazakh Speech Corpus, TTS, ASR, and TurkicASR).

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Timur Bakibayev

PhD in Computer Science, Professor at AlmaU and KBTU; author of academic books and courses on Data Science and Machine Learning in Kazakhstan.

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Yerzhan Dikhanbayev

Senior AI Researcher at ISSAI; core contributor to KazLLM pre-training, fine-tuning, and alignment on sovereign multilingual corpora.

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