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Darkhan Zholtayev

Darkhan Zholtayev

Research Assistant

Interests:

  • Deep learning algorithms
  • Autonomous navigation and Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms
  • Control theory

Darkhan is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI). He completed his Ph.D. in the Robotics Department at Nazarbayev University in February 2024. Darkhan received a bachelor’s degree with a specialty in mathematics from Kazakh National University from 2010 to 2014 and a master’s degree from the University of De Lorraine (Nancy, France) with a specialty in reservoir engineering from 2014 to 2017.

In 2018-2019, he worked as a Research Assistant in NLA with Power Electronics. He was involved in different projects such as Brain Machine Interface (BMI) and Advanced control methods for wind turbine conversion systems.

Currently, at ISSAI, Darkhan is working on a project related to Mobile robot navigation using Deep Reinforcement Learning. He is the winner of the “Zhas Galym” project from 2024 to 2026.