Akbar Yermekov

CEO, Chief Data Scientist

University of Oxford (UK)
Undergraduate Advanced Diploma in IT Systems Analysis and Design
Part-time studies, with distinction
MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) & MITx
MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science
University of the People (USA)
Associate of Science in Computer Science
Eastern Mediterranean University (Turkey)
Molecular Biology and Genetics (1st year, "High Honor")

•Full-stack data scientist with 12 years of experience
•Expertise in machine learning, predictive modeling, and generative AI
•Extensive experience designing & building predictive models, NLP and CV pipelines for various startups and international institutions

•Developed and tested predictive models that were used by several Fortune 500 companies
•Software for analysis of gene expression data (ArrayExpress, NCBI) and determination of oncogenes (breast cancer) and signatures of various diseases (cardiovascular disease, covid) with the use of methods of machine learning & AI
•Software for determination of component composition and simulated distillation of oil and petroleum products
•Application for detection of adulterated alcohol products with the use of ML, data vis. & multivariate statistics
•Application for control of correctness of references in scientific literature, for parsing and collection of article metadata, generation of XML reports for CrossRef
•Software for statistical analysis of experimental data obtained via GC-MS developed under International Science and Technology Center (ISTC)

Utrecht University & Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research
Exploring Nature's Molecular Machines
Summer School Program, 2014
Focus: Molecular Biology, Research Methods, Biological Data Analysis
University of Melbourne
Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression
Coursera Certificate with Distinction, 2014
Focus: Research Skills, Literature Reviews, Scientific Writing
University of Toronto
Bioinformatic Methods II
Coursera Certificate with Distinction, 2014
Focus: Structural Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, R Programming, Sequence Alignment
Johns Hopkins University
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1
Coursera Certificate, 2014
Focus: Statistical Modeling, Hypothesis Testing, Clinical Data Analysis
Duke University
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Coursera Certificate, 2013
Focus: Research Skills, Biological Data Analysis
University of California, Berkeley
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
edX Certificate, 2013
Focus: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Quantum Computing