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Contact Information
| Name | Arman Bolatov |
| Professional Title | ML Researcher |
| 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
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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.
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2023 - 2023 Abu Dhabi, UAE
Undergraduate Research Intern
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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Built a reinforcement learning environment with
gymnasiumand 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.
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Built a reinforcement learning environment with
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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.
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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.
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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
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2024 - 2026 Abu Dhabi, UAE
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2019 - 2024 Astana, Kazakhstan
Awards
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2022 International Math Competition for Undergraduate Students — First prize
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2023 Samsung Innovation Campus Hackathon — First place
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2022 Google DSC Fire Recognition Hackathon — First place
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2022 Kaggle American Express — Default Prediction — Silver medal
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2024 HackNU/22, HackNU/23, HackNU/24 — Second place
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2023 JAS AI Hackathon — Third place
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2018 International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics — Silver medal
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2017 National Math Olympiad — Bronze medal
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2022 Dean's List, Nazarbayev University