Saida Mussakhojayeva
Senior Data Scientist
Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolSaida Mussakhojayeva is a Senior Data Scientist and ML engineer specializing in speech and language technologies, with a decade of experience building TTS, ASR, and voice conversion systems. Based at the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (Nazarbayev University), she has led the creation of the first Kazakh Emotional TTS and any-to-any Kazakh voice conversion engines and delivered a Kazakh TTS with MOS > 4.0. Her research spans multilingual speech recognition—achieving a 55%+ improvement across 10 Turkic languages—and contributions published at INTERSPEECH and LREC. Trained at KAIST in NLP and fluent in Kazakh, English, and Russian, she blends deep research expertise with practical production skills using PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kaldi, and Docker. She also mentors future engineers as an adjunct instructor, designing course material and coding assignments that bridge theory and applied ML. Currently exploring zero-shot TTS, emotional synthesis, and voice cloning opportunities, she thrives at the intersection of R&D and real-world deployment.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Nazarbayev UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (41)
speech-to-text8
google7
metric-learning7
speech-synthesis7
natural-language-processing7
natural-language-understanding7
nlp7
lora6
speech-recognition6
deep-learning6
speaker6
code-editor5
bert5
tensorflow5
css5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IS2AI/TurkicASR
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
A multilingual ASR model that can recognize ten Turkic languages—Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Sakha, Tatar, Turkish, Uyghur, and Uzbek.
Contributions:10 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
asr-modeldeep-learningspeech-recognitionspeech-synthesisspeech-to-text
IS2AI/Kazakh_TTS
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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