On December 7, 2023, members of the Committee on Social and Cultural Development and Science of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan visited Nazarbayev University (NU). The team was leaded by Mr. Zhussip Nurtore, Chairman of Socio-cultural development and science committee of the Senate of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nurseyitov Rakhimzhan, Head of the Social and cultural development and science committee liaison department, Mr. Ahmed-Zaki Darkhan the Vice-minister of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The purpose of their visit was to know more about the activities of the country’s leading university and to engage with young Kazakhstani scientists who are contributing to the development of domestic science.
As part of the visit, the senators were given a tour of NU’s campus, including the master plan, advanced laboratories for batteries and electron microscopy, and demonstrations of the developments from our Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI).
Under the tour to ISSAI, delegation got acquainted with ISSAI’s research and activities. ISSAI Deputy director Absalyamov Yerbol welcomed the guests and gave them a tour of the ISSAI lab with demonstration of Kazakh speech projects developed by ISSAI and gave a presentation on ISSAI projects and computational resources. Afterwards, ISSAI researcher Dr. Azamat Yeshmukhambetov explained how tensegrity structures can change the perception of mobile robots, as they can withstand heavy loads and strong collisions with their low weight.
Mr. Zhussip Nurtore, the Chairman of the Senate Committee, and others explored the developments of the best research university in Central Asia and recognized ISSAI’s significant contribution to the progress of Kazakh language for digital Kazakhstan.
At the end of tour at ISSAI, Mr. Zhussip Nurtore stated: ” We are very impressed by research activities of ISSAI, especially for Kazakh language. We hope that ISSAI can unite under its umbrella all Turkic countries with aim to develop language model for all these Turkic countries”.