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Ainur Zhaikhan

Ainur Zhaikhan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests:

  • Reinforcement learning (RL)
  • Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
  • Large language models (LLMs)
  • RL for robotics

Ainur Zhaikhan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISSAI. She received her PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2025. Her doctoral research focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning. She earned her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Nazarbayev University (2013–2018), graduating with honors (cum laude).