Baktiyar Ablaikhan

Baktiyar Ablaikhan

Machine Learning & Software Engineering · Computational Physics

Astana, Kazakhstan|baktiyarablaikhan@gmail.com|github.com/sronters|Kaggle

Profile

Grade 10 student at Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics, Astana. I build applied machine-learning systems spanning satellite imagery, embedded devices, scientific data and educational software. First-place AEROO Space AI winner; IAAC Gold Honour recipient; co-founder of a student astronomy club.

Selected engineering & research

Experience & leadership

Achievements & awards

  • 1st Place, AEROO Space AI 2026 (TRACE); Gold Honour, IAAC 2025 (top 2%, 19/20 final).
  • NSRI Summer Research Hackathon 2026 Grand Finalist (Team Cipher); 4th Place, Decentrathon 5.0 (Team BAASH).
  • 75th / 4,370 teams, Kaggle Predicting Heart Disease 2026 (top 1.7%); 1st Place, NIS Hackathon 2026.

Education

Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics, AstanaExpected 2029

Grade 10 · Focus: mathematics, physics, computer science · Cumulative GPA: 4.82/5.0 (Grades 8–9)

Technical skills

Programming & ML: Python, C, C++, TypeScript, SQL; PyTorch, scikit-learn, OpenCV, XGBoost.

Systems & tools: ESP32-S3, Next.js, React, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Linux, Git; cybersecurity fundamentals.

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Baktiyar Ablaikhan

Software, machine learning and embedded systems · Astana, Kazakhstan

Education

  • Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics

    Astana-Nura · Grade 10 (2026–27) · expected graduation 2029

Experience

  • Acciolytix — AI product & engineering intern, Acciolytix

    • Product engineering, PostgreSQL/SQL, XML ingestion and data validation for an enterprise AI workspace.
    • Built and debugged production-facing workflows in Next.js, React and TypeScript; audited generated SQL for Text-to-SQL features.

    2026 – now

  • Digitalization internship, Astana City — Digitalization intern (paid), Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations of Astana

    • Digitized, classified and quality-checked official architecture and land records.
    • Worked inside municipal archival systems, document retrieval and administrative workflows.

    Jun – Aug 2026

Research

  • NanoTranslate-S3 — Independent researcher

    • Co-designed a 999,040-parameter RU→EN encoder–decoder Transformer, a lossless byte-piece tokenizer, row-wise INT8 weights and a C++ runtime for the ESP32-S3.
    • Verified the PyTorch → INT8 → C++ path end to end; the preprint leaves board latency and held-out BLEU blank until measured.

    2026

  • Sycophancy as a pathogen — Independent researcher, ThinkLab International Research Competition 2026

    • Designed a multi-turn sycophancy evaluation across GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3 Pro with response-level coding and a Drift Score.
    • Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct with DPO (LoRA, 4-bit NF4) on 44 preference pairs; observed drift fell from 33.3% to 12.5% in a single pilot run.

    Aug 2026

  • GraphTrust — Research engineer, team Cipher (with Shyngyskhan Sagyt and Arpith Sivaramakrishnan), NSRI Summer Research Hackathon 2026

    • Co-developed a typed graph system for multi-hop identity risk, bounded path search, analyst-budget ranking and workflow-preserving counterfactual remediation.
    • 225/225 verified runs; NDCG@10 of 0.125 against 0.002 for untyped traversal, with equal risky-identity recall (0.758).

    2026

  • Corrosion prediction across publications — Co-author, with Ramazan Zhumash (grade 11); supervisor Nurbol Kelgenbaev, NIS Astana-Nura · Chemistry section

    • Co-authored a school research project (with R. Zhumash; supervisor N. Kelgenbaev) on transferring ML predictions of pitting potential across publications, with expected-error estimation and a pre-specified external test.
    • Internally, rejecting high-risk predictions cut MAE from 0.249 to 0.171 V at 61.8% coverage; on 40 external measurements the rule failed (0.281 → 0.324 V) and is reported as such.

    2026

  • ArtEco — Independent project

    • Built a 20×20 multi-agent economy in pure NumPy with learned barter and a 4-bit message channel; ran six experiment families.

    2026

  • Deep-SAR Oil Spill Segmentation (Refined) — Curator

    • Published a refined version of the Deep-SAR Oil Spill dataset on Kaggle: corrected 38% of training and 50% of validation segmentation masks (CC BY 4.0). Used in a peer-reviewed paper in Discover Computing (Springer Nature, 2026).

    Feb 2026

  • Kazakh Classical Poetry — Abai & Makataev — Curator

    • Published a cleaned corpus of 233 Kazakh poems by Abai Kunanbaiuly and Mukagali Makataev for NLP (CC0).

    Mar 2026

Selected projects

  • TRACE — Founder & solo developer, AEROO International Space AI Competition

    • Built a maritime monitoring stack: YOLOv8-OBB vessel detection, U-Net/ResNet-34 oil-spill segmentation on SAR, XGBoost over 7.17M AIS records, FastAPI/Leaflet interface and generated reports.

    2026

  • SunCast — Researcher, with Dr. Dana Alina (PhD in Astrophysics, Nazarbayev University)

    • Built SunCast, a solar-flare forecasting system integrating NASA and NOAA satellite data with multimodal space-weather signals; developed and evaluated RNN, LSTM, Transformer and ensemble pipelines in PyTorch, reaching 97.07% accuracy and 95.26% recall, with Dr. Dana Alina (PhD in Astrophysics, Nazarbayev University).
    • A later pre-registered audit (Oct 2026) found no confirmed 5% Brier improvement on 2026 data and is reported as a negative result.

    2026 – now

  • EpiCare — Independent project

    • Built an ESP32-S3 wearable with inertial, ECG and SpO₂ sensing; converted an XGBoost model to C with m2cgen for on-device inference.
    • 97.0% accuracy and 98.9% recall on a 901-window fall-vs-activity split; added pre-alert cancellation and Wi-Fi telemetry.

    2025 – 2026

  • Mitra — Builder

    • SAT practice platform (adaptive modules, spaced repetition, vocabulary trainer) merged with an opportunity aggregator: Python collectors, LLM extraction, pgvector, Telegram moderation.

    2026 – now

  • Mitair — Tech Vision hackathon

    • Android app (Expo/React Native, FastAPI, Supabase) comparing departure times and routes by expected PM2.5 exposure; LightGBM forecast beat persistence by 21.7% at 6 hours on a temporal holdout.

    Jul 2026

  • MedArchive — MedPartners hackathon case

    • Built a searchable medical price-list archive from 10 source archives and 8,877 structured price rows; shipped a prototype with API and Swagger documentation.

    2026

  • JerCase AI — Team baash, one of four, GovTech Camp 2026 (selection stage)

    • Linking land-case documents to cadastral parcels with OCR, multilingual embeddings and a CatBoost YetiRank reranker over PostGIS.

    Jul 2026

Honours

  • 1st place — AEROO Space AI Competition

    • I degree diploma, Space AI section, International Science Competition in Space Research “Exploring the World of Science” (Astana, April 2026). Project: TRACE.

    Apr 2026

  • Gold Honour — International Astronomy & Astrophysics Competition

    • Top 2% of all participants; 19 points in the 20-question supervised final.

    Sep 2025

  • Grand finalist · Top 25 — NSRI Summer Research Hackathon

    • Grand finalist (Top 25 of 100 finalist teams), team Cipher. Project: GraphTrust.

    Jul 2026

  • 75th of 4,370 — Kaggle: Predicting Heart Disease

    • 75th of 4,370 teams (top 1.7%), Kaggle Playground Series S6E2 — tabular binary classification.

    Feb 2026

  • 1st place — Science Fair at NIS Astana-Nura

    • 1st place, Technology section, IV regional conference of student science projects.

    2026

  • Top 4 — Decentrathon 5.0

    • Top 4 of 5 finalist teams, “Legislative Entropy” case, AI inDrive track, team baash (Pulse 109: routing, retrieval and analytics for citizen appeals).

    Mar – Apr 2026

  • 1st place — NIS Hackathon 2026

    • Awarded for innovation, problem-solving and teamwork.

    2026

  • 8th of ~700 teams — Halyk Bank Agentic Challenge

    • Project: auditable covenant decision engine.

    2026

  • 1st place ×2 — School olympiads

    • 1st place, school astronomy olympiad; 1st place, world history (school stage of the national olympiad), 2024–25.

    2024 – 2025

  • 2nd of 11 · 4th of 45 — Kaggle community competitions

    • 2nd of 11 (Image Classification Challenge) and 4th of 45 (Cyprus AI Camp: Binary Classification in Space), Kaggle community competitions.

    2026

  • Qualified for the pre-final — International Youth Math Challenge 2026

    • Passed the qualification round; qualified for the pre-final (October 2026).

    Oct 2026

Community & leadership

  • Mostly Matter — Founder & author

    • Science short-video channel: 1.1M+ cumulative views across 26 videos, 4,200+ followers (October 2026).

    2025 – now

  • Quasar Astronomy & Astrophysics Club — Co-founder & deputy president

    • Co-founder and deputy president; organize lectures, research sessions and events with PhD scientists from Nazarbayev University.

    2024 – now

  • Chess — Player & teacher

    • First-category player (2022 certificate); about 190–200 hours of teaching younger students; students reached third-category ratings.

    2022 – 2025

  • Volunteering — Volunteer

    • Event volunteer — NIS Run Fest 2024 (certificate of appreciation), KazRockets, Barys Arena.

    2024 – 2026

Programmes & courses

  • Junior Academy, New York Academy of Sciences — Research participant, The New York Academy of Sciences

    • Active 2025–26 member; team research project on solar energy.

    2025 – 2026

  • School physics team — Team member, grades 7–8, NIS Astana-Nura

    • Member of the school physics olympiad team in grades 7 and 8.

    2023 – 2025

  • AEROO Space Settlement Competition 2025 — Team Perseus, one of four authors, AEROO

    • Team Perseus: design proposal for a 100,000-person rotating habitat in the Kuiper Belt (junior category).

    Oct – Nov 2025

  • Hugging Face LLM Course — Hugging Face

    • Certificate, chapter 3 “Fine-tuning Language Models” (March 2026).

    Mar 2026

Languages

Kazakh (native) · Russian (native) · English (proficient)