Shokhan Birlikov Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Developed Natural Language Processing tools, such as morphological analyzer, named entity recognition model, number-to-words and words-to-number converter, re-punctuation and re-capitalization tools for Kazakh language.
• Managed a team for collecting text corpus data and conducted training and evaluating large language models like BERT and GPT-3.
• Developed and managed a team for Conversational AI technology and goal oriented chat-bots. Closely worked with business, converted requests to technical tasks, participated in development and maintenance. In less than.

Kazakhstan

• Researched and implemented algorithms for Face Anti-Spoofing task, participated in development of face bio-metrics system Digital ID used by 8M+ users of national gov-tech platform. Participated in collection and.
• Developed custom document scanner tool from scratch based on OCR technology, including cropping the document from image, extracting bounding boxes of parts with texts and further text recognition and classification.

Kazakhstan

• Developed a Virtual Assistant(VA). Conducted customer development - interviewed and analyzed 3 group of people, developed 5+ new skills for the virtual assistant and general architecture of the dialogue system.
• Developed a goal-oriented chat-bot and automatic call-center assistant for an online grocery store project “OnayBazar”, automated order creation by extracting 50+ slot items for goods, weights and amounts, addresses.
• Automated information collection by extracting 10+ slot items for a call-center assistant which calls to 100+ local drugstores to get the latest information about stock amounts of medical goods, masks and antiseptics.
• Participated in data collection and preparation, developed custom tools in Python and helped our audio team to gather 10+ gigabytes of proper texts for Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis tasks in Kazakh.

Kazakhstan

• Built "Speech2Lips" from scratch - an interdisciplinary project of generating an animation of human lips based on audio speech data. Did the required research, went through finding and processing 50Gb + visual data.
• Participated in development of Virtual Assistant chat-bot for National Bank with 100K+ online users. Conducted 10+ experiments on various machine learning and deep learning algorithms with the aim to classify user.
• Researched and applied state of the art NLP models, like BERT multilingual and other language models for non- English domains.

• Gave lessons on statistics, linear algebra, calculus, etc.
• Managed the educational process.

• Gave lessons on statistics, linear algebra, calculus, etc.

Master'S Degree, Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning, Advanced Machine Learning, Advanced Deep Learning, Python in Production, Machine Learning Deployment, Big Data.

Master'S Degree, Applied Mathematics And Computer Science

Numerical Methods, Mathematical Modeling, Research work, etc.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Math, Gpa 3.95

Activities and Societies: Head of Student Scientific Society, Math Olympiad Organizer. Linear Algebra, Calculus, Differential Equations.