Education
| 2002 – 2007 | Specialist* | Applied mathematics | Moscow State University |
| 2007 – 2008 | PhD | Mathematical statistics | Hiroshima University |
*In the countries of the former USSR the specialist degree was the first degree conferred, and it required five years of study.
Employment History
| 2017 – present | Assistant Professor | School of science and technology, Nazarbayev University |
| 2013 – 2016 | Instructor | School of science and technology, Nazarbayev University |
| 2011 – 2013 | Teaching assistant | School of science and technology, Nazarbayev University |
| 2011 – 2011 | Senior Manager | Oil transportation projects management department, KazMunayGas |
| 2009 – 2011 | Manager | Projects management department, KMG-Transcaspian LLP (subs. of KazMunayGas) |
Teaching Experience
MATH 161 – Calculus I: Summer’13, Fall’13, Spring’14, Spring’15, Fall’15, Spring’16, Fall’16.
MATH 162 – Calculus II: Spring’17.
MATH 310 – Applied statistical methods: Fall’16, Fall’17.
MATH 321 – Probability: Fall’14, Summer’15.
MATH 322 – Mathematical statistics: Spring’14, Summer’14, Spring’15, Spring’16.
MATH 440 – Regression analysis: Fall’17.
MATH 446 – Time series analysis: Fall’15.
MATH 425 – Stochastic Processes: Fall’13, Fall’14.
MATH 540 – Statistical analysis: Fall’17
Software
Syllable-aware neural language models: https://github.com/zh3nis/lstm-syl
Morphological disambiguation tool for Kazakh: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/branches/kaz-tagger
Research interests
Statistics, machine learning, natural language processing.
Reusing Weights in Subword-aware Neural Language ModelsAssylbekov, Z., Takhanov, R.,
2018 In : Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2018.
Manual vs Automatic Bitext ExtractionMakazhanov, A., Myrzakhmetov, B., Assylbekov, Z.,
2018 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Syllable-aware Neural Language Models: A Failure to Beat Character-aware OnesAssylbekov, Z., Takhanov, R., Myrzakhmetov, B., Washington, J.,
2017 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. p. 1867-1873
Simple and Accurate Method for Parallel Web Pages DetectionJangeldin, A., Assylbekov, Z.,
2017 Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems. p. 238-247
Patterns Versus Characters in Subword-Aware Neural Language ModelingTakhanov, R., Assylbekov, Z.,
2017 International Conference on Neural Information Processing. p. 157-166
Experiments with Russian to Kazakh sentence alignmentAssylbekov, Z., Makazhanov, A., Myrzakhmetov, B.,
2016Detecting value-added tax evasion by business entities of KazakhstanAssylbekov, Z., Melnykov, I., Bekishev, R., Baltabayeva, A., Bissengaliyeva, D., Mamlin, E.,
2016 Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016 - Proceedings of the 8th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies, KES-IDT 2016. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 56, p. 37-49
A free/open-source hybrid morphological disambiguation tool for KazakhAssylbekov, Z., Washington, J., Tyers, F., Nurkas, A., Sundetova, A., Karibayeva, A., Abduali, B., Amirova, D.,
2016A statistical model for measuring structural similarity between webpagesAssylbekov, Z., Nurkas, A., Mouga, I.,
2015 International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015-January, p. 24-31
Initial explorations in Kazakh to English statistical machine translationAssylbekov, Z., Nurkas, A.,
2014 p. 12
On approximating some statistics of goodness-of-fit tests in the case of three-dimensional discrete dataAsylbekov, Z., Zubov, V., Ulyanov, V.,
2011 In : Siberian Mathematical Journal. 52, 4, p. 571-584
Convergence rate of multinomial goodness-of-fit statistics to chi-square distributionZhenisbek, A.,
2010 In : Hiroshima Mathematical Journal. 40, 1, p. 115-131
W-12 Online International Community and Alumni Database by Free Open Source Software(International Session-II)Hazama, R., Ito, Y., Assylbekov, Z.,
2008 In : JSEE annual conference international session proceedings. 2008, p. 76-79
