Daniyar Turmukhambetov
Staff Research Scientist at Niantic Spatial, Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniyar Turmukhambetov is a Staff Research Scientist based in London with a decade of experience advancing computer vision and machine learning research. He holds a PhD from UCL and has transitioned work from academia to industry, co-founding Matrix Mill before its acquisition and helping build Niantic’s research arm now operating as Niantic Spatial. His work focuses on practical CV problems for AR and spatial computing, blending deep research rigor with product-driven deployment at scale. Daniyar has a track record of moving research into production within games and spatial platforms, contributing to teams that bridge R&D and commercial applications. Fluent in Chinese and trained at Tsinghua and UCL, he brings international perspective and cross-disciplinary thinking to complex perception challenges. An inventor at heart, he pairs academic depth with startup instincts to turn novel models into usable systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityChinese language, Chinese language at Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityUniversity College London
English, Russian, Kazakh, Chinese, Turkish
Github Skills (30)
depth-estimation10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
depth10
translation9
rotation9
spatial9
elastic8
computer-vision8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dantkz/spatial-transformer-tensorflow
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Spatial Transformer Networks with Affine, Projective and Elastic Transformations in Tensorflow
Contributions:82 commits, 73 pushes in 11 months
deep-learningelasticspatialspatial-transformer-networkstransformer
danielewworrall/harmonicConvolutions
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Deep Translation and Rotation Equivariance
Contributions:93 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
rotationdeep-learningtranslationrotation-equivarianceequivariance
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