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Baku, Azerbaijan

Yagub Ismayilli

Data Scientist / AI Engineer

I fine-tune transformers for languages that don't have enough data.

character error rate
3.47%character error rateAzerbaijani handwriting OCR, final model
error reduction
~5×error reductionvs. CNN–BiLSTM–CTC baseline
training images
30,000training images25k synthetic + 5k hand-annotated

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In short

Data Science and AI specialist with hands-on experience fine-tuning Transformer models across two industrial research internships — handwritten text recognition for Azerbaijani, and a customer-support chatbot. Works in PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, TensorFlow, Pandas and NumPy, on top of strong Oracle SQL and PL/SQL foundations. Double master's degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Also builds and ships full-stack applications in React and Node, which helps in delivering models as usable products.