Projects

Soyle

Assistive Tech

Smart glasses displaying live captions for deaf users. Featured on 7+ TV channels with 1.7M+ views. Built 5 prototypes, piloted with deaf patients, and won 3rd place at Samsung Solve For Tomorrow 2025 (Top 3/890 teams).

Cosmetic Inspector

Synthetic Biology

iGEM 2025 Silver Medal winner. Built biosensor to detect toxic chemicals in counterfeit cosmetics. Co-designed hydroquinone biosensor, ran protein assays, and led 4-person team building educational game on cosmetic safety.

Derma Diagnostics

Medical AI

Offline skin cancer screening app with 98% accuracy, piloted in rural Southern Kazakhstan. Trained CNN on 10k dermatology images, built for $50 phones with zero internet required.

ISSAI Research Internship: NLP & Cultural AI

NLP Research

Research intern at Kazakhstan's leading AI research lab (10% acceptance). Trained GPT-2 on 72-GPU supercomputer, built Kazakh speech corpus, led 38-person trilingual speech study, and co-authored manuscript under review at IEEE Access.

Mindrot

AI/Video

AI text-to-video platform built at nFactorial Incubator (2.3% acceptance). 10K+ videos created, users in 80+ countries, $7K+ revenue. Custom Remotion render engine with 25+ React components.

Mavericks FTC: Autonomous Robotics Stack

Robotics

Lead Programmer & Regional Mentor for FIRST Robotics. Open-sourced code adopted by 10+ teams nationwide. Trained 110+ students online across 6 KZ regions. Mentored 8+ teams to national-level competition.

Skywatch

Computer Vision

An AI-powered agricultural drone ecosystem for precision pest and weed detection using YOLOv8 computer vision.

RoboCare

Robotics

An autonomous medical robot for contactless delivery and hospital logistics. Features autonomous navigation, Face ID security, and self-sterilization.

Bitely

Mobile App

A smart food management app that helps you scan products, track expiration dates, and discover recipes based on your pantry.

Speaking9

EdTech

An AI-powered platform that evaluates speaking skills and provides IELTS band scores. Currently in development with a functional MVP.

Taizhanov Nurbek