Maxat Kulmanov
Research Scientist at aramco
Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolMaxat Kulmanov is a research scientist at KAUST with 11 years of experience bridging bioinformatics research and software engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has progressed from PhD candidate and postdoc roles into applied research focusing on AI, machine learning, and neural network applications in life sciences. Prior to academia he built production web and mobile systems—game-based learning platforms, backend services, and mobile apps—using Python/Django, Java, AngularJS and various databases, and has hands-on ops experience administering Debian servers. Maxat’s background uniquely combines rigorous computational research with full-stack development practice, enabling rapid prototyping of ML-driven bioinformatics tools. Based in Saudi Arabia, he has international research exposure including a visiting stint in Germany and a record of teaching and mentoring at the university level. An intriguing thread through his career is shifting smoothly between production engineering and scholarly research, making him effective at turning complex algorithms into usable software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)Master's degree Information Systems, Master's degree Information Systems at Kazakh-British Technical UniversityVisiting Student Computer Science, Visiting Student Computer Science at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Kazakh, English, Russian, Arabic, German
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Github Skills (66)
variants10
ontology10
classifier10
neuro-symbolic10
ontologies10
neural-symbolic10
vcf-files10
machine-learning10
docker-image9
bioinformatics-analysis9
bioinformatics9
goplus9
golang8
bacteria8
genome-assembly8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bio-ontology-research-group/deepgo
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021
Function prediction using a deep ontology-aware classifier
Contributions:191 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
classifiermachine-learningfunction-profilergene-ontology
bio-ontology-research-group/biochallenge
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:13 PRs, 78 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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