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Contact Information

Name Arman Bolatov
Professional Title ML Researcher
Email arman.bolatov@mbzuai.ac.ae
Phone +7 778 268 7150

Professional Summary

MS student in Machine Learning at MBZUAI, working on optimization for deep learning, federated learning, and learning theory.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2024

    Remote

    NLP Engineer
    Wonk AI
    • Developed a Retrieval-Augmented chatbot to assist students with their studies, integrating OpenAI GPT-3.5, Pinecone, Fasttext, and HuggingFace endpoints (Kaz-RoBERTa, RuBERT-cased).
    • Designed a FastAPI backend microservice to parse PDFs, segment them into chunks, and retrieve relevant textbook excerpts based on user queries.
    • Leveraged ChatCompletion function calls and Langchain retrieval to aid teachers in generating quizzes.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Undergraduate Research Intern
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
    • Built a reinforcement learning environment with gymnasium and trained PPO, DDPG, TD3, A2C from stable-baselines3.
    • Achieved a 3-5% accuracy increase through extensive Bayesian hyperparameter search using WandB sweeps.
    • Contributed to a workshop submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, 2023.
  • 2022 - 2023

    Astana, Kazakhstan

    Computer Vision Research Engineer
    Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence
    • Collected, processed, and annotated the Central Asian Food Dataset of 16,000 images of Central Asian dishes.
    • Trained CAFD on VGG, ResNet, EfficientNet, ViT, and DenseNet models.
    • Achieved 1-2% accuracy improvements through deep data augmentation using a personalized Latent Diffusion Model.
  • 2021 - 2022

    Astana, Kazakhstan

    Intern Data Scientist
    National Analytic Center of Kazakhstan
    • Created Python scripts for calculating death rates and probabilities, infant mortality rates, life expectancy, population by age, and building life tables from the Republic Database of Private Entities.
  • 2020 - 2022

    Kazakhstan

    Head of Scoreboard
    Beyond Curriculum Public Foundation
    • Built a database of 50+ Olympiads on 15 school subjects with 8000+ cumulative participants.
    • Wrote Python scripts to aggregate raw CSV/Excel results into JSON arrays and load them into scoreboard.kz.
    • Led a team of 15+ members, delegated tasks, and ran weekly meetings to oversee project progress.

Education

  • 2024 - 2026

    Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Master of Science
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
    Machine Learning
  • 2019 - 2024

    Astana, Kazakhstan

    Bachelor of Science
    Nazarbayev University
    Computer Science

Awards

  • 2022
    International Math Competition for Undergraduate Students — First prize
  • 2023
    Samsung Innovation Campus Hackathon — First place
  • 2022
    Google DSC Fire Recognition Hackathon — First place
  • 2022
    Kaggle American Express — Default Prediction — Silver medal
  • 2024
    HackNU/22, HackNU/23, HackNU/24 — Second place
  • 2023
    JAS AI Hackathon — Third place
  • 2018
    International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics — Silver medal
  • 2017
    National Math Olympiad — Bronze medal
  • 2022
    Dean's List, Nazarbayev University

Skills

Languages: Python, C++
ML / DL: PyTorch, scikit-learn, Pandas, OpenCV, Wandb
Tools: Git, Docker, Linux, LaTeX, VS Code, Jupyter