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Contact Information

Name Arman Bolatov
Professional Title ELLIS PhD Student at CISPA
Email arman.bolatov [at] mbzuai [dot] ac [dot] ae

Experience

  • 2023-2024 Remote
    NLP Engineer
    Wonk AI
    • Built a Retrieval-Augmented chatbot for student tutoring, integrating OpenAI GPT-3.5, Pinecone, Fasttext, and HuggingFace endpoints (Kaz-RoBERTa, RuBERT).
    • Designed a FastAPI backend to parse PDFs, chunk them, and retrieve textbook excerpts based on user queries.
    • Used ChatCompletion function calls and Langchain retrieval to help teachers generate quizzes.
  • 2023-2023 Abu Dhabi
    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 gain through Bayesian hyperparameter search with WandB sweeps.
    • Contributed to a workshop paper submitted to IEEE SmartGridComm 2023.
  • 2022-2023 Astana
    Computer Vision Research Engineer
    Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence
    • Collected and annotated the Central Asian Food Dataset (16,000 images of Central Asian dishes).
    • Trained CAFD across VGG, ResNet, EfficientNet, ViT, and DenseNet.
    • Achieved 1-2% accuracy gains through data augmentation with a custom Latent Diffusion Model.
  • 2021-2022 Astana
    Intern Data Scientist
    National Analytic Center of Kazakhstan
    • Wrote Python scripts to compute death rates, infant mortality rates, life expectancy, and population-by-age tables from the Republic Database of Private Entities.
  • 2020-2022 Kazakhstan
    Head of Scoreboard
    Beyond Curriculum Public Foundation
    • Built a database of 50+ Olympiads across 15 school subjects (8000+ cumulative participants).
    • Wrote Python scripts to aggregate raw CSV/Excel results into JSON and load them into scoreboard.kz.
    • Led a team of 15+ members and ran weekly meetings to coordinate progress.

Education

  • 2026-... Saarbrücken
    Doctor of Philosophy
    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
    Machine Learning and Optimization
  • 2024-2026 Abu Dhabi
    Master of Science
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
    Machine Learning
    GPA: 3.80/4.00
  • 2019-2024 Astana
    Bachelor of Science
    Nazarbayev University
    Computer Science
    GPA: 3.75/4.00
  • 2014-2019 Taldykorgan
    High School Diploma
    Nazarbayev Intellectual School
    Physics and Mathematics

Awards

Talks

  • 2025 Southampton
    Beyond One-Hot Labels: KL-Divergence Training with Empirical Distributions for Faster Optimization
    EurOPT 2025

Skills

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

Languages

Kazakh: Native  ·  Russian: Fluent  ·  English: Limited working proficiency