WORK EXPERIENCE
Head of AI/ML, INUI Gaming (Dubai, UAE) October, 2023 - October, 2024
⦿ Established company's ML/AI function, leading a team on innovative projects for the gaming industry: anticheat system for Counter Strike 2 and CS:GO (computer vision based solutions for WallHack cheats and sophisticated deep learning and mathematical algorithms for AimBot, Spinbot type of cheats); recommendation systems for content suggestions and gaming marketplace; match-making and ranking system for normal and custom modes of team playing in Counter Strike.
⦿ Scaled the team from 2 to 5 senior ML engineers, overseeing the entire hiring process, including sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, and onboarding.
⦿ Managed cross-team communication and stakeholder collaboration to ensure alignment, optimizing project delivery
Senior Lecturer, Kazakh-British Technical University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) January, 2023 - June, 2023
Teaching Electronics & Digital Design course. Course content: digital logic, digital electronics, FPGA design
Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester (Manchester, UK) February, 2022 - December, 2022
Teaching assistant at the Department of Mathematics. Helding tutorial sessions for:
⦿ MATH19662,MATH26021 - Calculus II (1st year mechanical engineering and electrical engineering students)
⦿ MATH26021 - Programming with Python (2nd year maths students)
⦿ MATH38001 - Statistical Inference (3rd year maths students)
The position mainly requires answering students questions, encouraging them to develop deeper understanding of the subject, giving feedback and marking assignments, exam sheets.
Research Assistant, Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) October, 2019 - December, 2021
Research Assistant at Applied Signal Processing Laboratory. Implemented machine learning algorithms and denoising techniques for brain-computer interface systems, particularly EEG-based P300 Speller, using g.tex gUSBamp digital amplifier, MatLab and Python. Published 3 conference papers and 1 journal article about this work.
PUBLICATIONS
Z. Ermaganbet, A. Mussabayeva, P.K. Jamwal, M.T. Akhtar, “Subject-Independent P300 Speller Classification using Time-Frequency Representation and Double Input CNN with Feature Concatenation,” 2023 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2023), Rhodes, Greece, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi:10.1109/DSP58604.2023.10167987
A. Mussabayeva, P.K. Jamwal, M.T. Akhtar, “Ensemble Voting-Based Multichannel EEG Classification in a Subject-Independent P300 Speller,” Applied Sciences 2021, 11(23):11252, doi:10.3390/app112311252
A. Mussabayeva, Z. Ermaganbet, P.K. Jamwal, and M.T. Akhtar, “Event-related spectrogram representation of EEG for CNN-based P300 speller” 13th Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2021, pp. 410-415. ,
A. Mussabayeva, P.K. Jamwal, and M.T. Akhtar, “Ensemble learning approach for subject-independent P300 speller,” 43d Annual International Conference on the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2021) , Mexico, Nov. 2021, pp. 5900-5903, doi:10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629679
A. Mussabayeva, P.K. Jamwal, and M.T. Akhtar, “Comparison of generic and subject-specific training for features classification in P300 speller,” Proc. 12th Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2020), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 2020, pp.222-227.
APSIPA ASC 2021, Tokyo, Japan
Event-Related Spectrogram Representation of EEG for CNN-based P300 Speller
INFERRING CHEMICAL REACTIONS FROM (SIMULATED) DATA
University of Manchester, NLA group
EDUCATION
PhD in Machine Learning
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) August, 2024 - Present
Department of Machine Learning
⦿ Supervisors: Prof. Kun Zhang and Prof. Mohammad Yaqub
⦿ Coursework: Advanced Topics in Continuous Optimization, Advanced Parallel and Distributed ML Systems, Foundations and Advanced Topics in ML
MPhil in Mathematical Sciences
University of Manchester September, 2021 - August, 2023
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
⦿ Supervisors: Prof. Stefan Güttel and Prof. Igor Larrosa
⦿ Thesis: Inferring Chemical Kinetics (ODEs) from Catalytic Reactions' Time-Series Data.
⦿ Research topics: optimization, sparse identification of non-linear dynamics, numerical approximation, compressive sensing.
⦿ Coursework: Numerical Linear Algebra, Theory of PDE, Ordinary Differential Operators, Markov Processes
MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nazarbayev University August, 2019 - May, 2021
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences.
⦿ Supervisors: Prof. Muhammad Tahir Akhtar and Prof. Prashant Kumar Jamwal
⦿ Thesis: "Meta-Classification of Brain Signals in P300 Speller"
⦿ Coursework: Algorithms and Data Structures, Embedded Systems, Statistics and Probability, Brain-Machine Interfaces
⦿ Extracuriccular activities: resident of Stand Up! Night club, stand-up comedian (performed for audience up to 600 people)
BEng in Automation and Control
Kazakh-British Technical University August, 2015 - June, 2019
Faculty of Intormation Technologies
⦿ Coursework: Control Theory, Microcontrollers, Algorithms and Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming
⦿ Extracuriccular activities: president of FunLife student club (organized events for students up to 200 visitors)
