Bater Makhabel
Head Of Facilities (Agentic Robotics Lab) at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolBater Makhabel is a senior engineering and research-infrastructure leader with 11+ years of experience building and operating HPC, AI, and robotics environments, currently heading Facilities for the Agentic Robotics Lab at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. He combines deep technical expertise in AI engineering, distributed systems, and robotics integration with hands-on experience in HPC cluster design, cloud-native platform engineering, and lab-scale mechatronics. His career spans industry and academia—designing production ML platforms, smart-city IoT systems, and high-performance research infrastructure—demonstrating a rare ability to bridge experimental research needs with production-grade operations. Bater is skilled in optimizing AI infrastructure (InfiniBand/RDMA, parallel file systems, CUDA/MPI) while driving governance, ISO-aligned QA, and strategic procurement to future-proof research labs. He has a Tsinghua computer science background and a track record of shipping scalable systems from low-level Windows backend services to large distributed analytics and robotics platforms. Notably, he pairs strategic leadership with practical engineering—often stepping into system architecture or algorithmic roles to unblock complex research deployments.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science& Technologies, Master's Degree, Computer Science& Technologies at Tsinghua University
Kazakh, English, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, French, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
startup10
algorithms10
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
architectural-patterns10
python10
data-science10
mathematics10
product-design10
machine-learning-algorithms10
language-processing10
design-patterns10
automation10
data-visualization10
architectures10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
batermj/data_sciences_campaign
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
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Contributions:2751 commits, 5 PRs, 2860 pushes in 5 years
pythonmathematicsarchitecture-visualizationmathematical-statisticsrobotics
batermj/kids_coding_campaign
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:420 commits, 431 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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