Yerlan Idelbayev
Applied Scientist at University of California-Merced
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYerlan Idelbayev is an applied scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in machine learning research and model compression, currently based in Los Angeles. He has held applied science roles at AWS and Snap and completed internships at NVIDIA, Google, and Facebook, bringing both industry-scale production experience and deep research rigor. Yerlan earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an MS from UCSD, and his early academic work improved medical record classification using LSTMs, outperforming prior baselines. He blends research-driven innovation with hands-on engineering across cloud and ML systems, and has a track record of translating state-of-the-art models into deployable solutions. A detail that sets him apart is his combined teaching background and broad internship pedigree, which helps him communicate complex ideas to diverse technical audiences.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, GPA: 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, GPA: 4.0 at University of California, MercedBachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, 3.88, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, 3.88 at International Information Technologies University
English, Russian, Kazakh
Github Skills (26)
pytorch10
imagenet10
resnet10
visual-recognition10
backbone10
efficientnet10
mixture-of-experts9
compression9
optimization8
deep-learning8
gpu8
inference8
machine-learning8
data-parallelism7
deepspeed7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UCMerced-ML/LC-model-compression
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 12 pushes, 4 comments in 11 months
akamaster/pytorch_resnet_cifar10
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Proper implementation of ResNet-s for CIFAR10/100 in pytorch that matches description of the original paper.
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 9 months
pytorchimagenetefficientnetbackbonecifar10
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