Karim Iskakov
Research Scientist in AI at Entrepreneur
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarim Iskakov is a research scientist in AI with 11 years of engineering experience, blending academic training from MIPT with practical open-source contributions. He focuses on applied machine learning and deployment, demonstrated by hands-on work improving Avatarify—adding macOS support, streamlining dependencies, and integrating a StyleGAN avatar with warmup capture for video-conferencing. Comfortable across ML engineering and DevOps, Karim moves projects from prototype to usable tools and pays attention to installation and user experience that many researchers overlook. Based in the United States, he bridges research rigor with production-minded engineering and contributes to community projects that make AI more accessible for real-time applications.
11 years of coding experience
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (11)
computer-vision10
python10
machine-learning9
video-processing9
pytorch9
macos8
face-alignment7
http-request5
docker4
cicd4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alievk/avatarify-python
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Avatars for Zoom, Skype and other video-conferencing apps.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer & DevOps Engineer
ML Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Karim primarily focused on improving the installation and configuration of the Avatarify project, adding support for macOS. They addressed dependencies, including `face-alignment` and `requests`, and modified the build scripts. Furthermore, the user integrated a 'warmup' feature for the video capture and incorporated a stylegan avatar with minor updates to the `cam_fomm.py` file and the `README.md` file.
avatarsskypevideo-conferencingvideoconferencing
karfly/learning-deep-learning
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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