Shakarim Soltanayev
Senior Research Scientist at Sony Interactive Entertainment
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShakarim Soltanayev is a Senior Research Scientist based in London with 11 years of experience applying computer vision and generative modeling to real-world imaging problems. He has progressed from research engineer roles at Huawei to research leadership through iSize Technologies and now Sony Interactive Entertainment, working on super-resolution, unpaired image-to-image translation, domain adaptation, GANs and diffusion models. His background blends an MS in Electrical Engineering from UNIST with hands-on production research, notably through projects that supported iSize’s acquisition by Sony. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who moves ideas toward deployable solutions, pairing deep academic grounding (see his Google Scholar record) with pragmatic engineering. An underappreciated strength is his track record of bridging unsupervised learning methods with practical video and image enhancement pipelines for commercial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nazarbayev UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
English, Russian, Kazakh, Turkish
Github Skills (58)
denoising10
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
tensorflow-lite8
solve8
matconvnet8
ipynb8
seaborn8
caffe8
neural-network8
extrapolation8
data-science8
encoder7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shakarim94/CDnCNN-B-tensorflow
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
CDnCNN-B for blind color image denoising - Tensorflow implementation
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
color-blindblindcaffedenoisingimage-denoising
Shakarim94/U-NET-saliency-tensorflow
Jan 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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