Nazar Beknazarov
Head Of AI at Emerald
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNazar Beknazarov is Head of AI and a PhD researcher with nine years of software and ML experience, specializing at the intersection of bioinformatics and applied machine learning. He has led ML R&D and production projects at Yandex and Sberbank, co-founded the HSE International Bioinformatics Lab, and now drives medical AI and LLM integration at a healthcare startup. His work includes building a 1B+ parameter LLM, training RLHF reward models, and publishing in Nature while also presenting at top ML venues like AAAI. Known for turning research into production, he rebuilt large-scale moderation pipelines handling tens of millions of items weekly and delivered urgent ML solutions under tight deadlines. He combines hands-on model engineering with mentoring and teaching, and has a track record of winning competitive data challenges such as IDAO. Based in the UK, he quietly favors pragmatic, open-data approaches that solved a biological problem unsolved for 30 years.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (6)
1c9
azerothcore8
bitrix8
pii8
python6
nette6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nazar1997/DeepZ_data_creation
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
Nazar1997/DeepZ
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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