Akbar Yermekov

Akbar Yermekov

CEO, Chief Data Scientist

Education

  • 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")

Professional Experience

  • Full-stack data scientist with 12 years of experience
  • Expertise in machine learning, predictive modeling, generative and agentic AI, as well as software architecture and database design
  • 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 100 companies

Certificates

  • 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

Recent Publications