Nazerke Turtayeva
Graduate Student Researcher
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolNazerke Turtayeva is a PhD candidate and graduate student researcher at UC Santa Barbara with nine years of hands-on experience in hardware-software co-design, computer architecture, and applied ML. She combines academic research with industry experience through internships and research roles at Microsoft, Google/DeepMind, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, focusing on LLMs, confidential computing, and hardware acceleration. Her open-source work includes RISC-V CPU enhancements and a configurable L2 TLB for OpenPiton, demonstrating a rare ability to move from RTL verification to system-level integration. She has built practical ML and vision products—ranging from crop-weed classification to a consumer mobile app—and published work from early field-to-satellite data efforts. Comfortable across simulation tools (Verilator, Vivado, VCS) and system integration, she bridges low-level hardware design with high-level research problems. Based in Santa Barbara, she brings a multidisciplinary toolkit that blends FPGA/ASIC thinking with real-world ML deployment experience.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering with emphasis on Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering with emphasis on Computer Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraPhysics-Math, Physics-Math at Назарбаев Интеллектуальные школыBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nazarbayev University
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Github Skills (51)
verilog10
simulator10
cpu10
gnu-toolchain10
risc10
asic10
fpga10
spike10
gnu10
computer-architecture9
systemverilog9
risc-v9
gcc9
systemc9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NazerkeT/MicroPackets
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
NazerkeT/ArianeDemo
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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