Zhumazhan Balapanov
builder & researcher
San Diego, CA
About
I build internet companies
Founded Astyk Market, which was the first agricultural marketplace in central asia (acquired) (forbes 30 under 30). Youngest publisher from Berkeley Research Lab at a major conference (NeurIPS 2024).
Projects & Research
Astyk Market
Founded a marketplace focused on farmers, later acquired by a publicly listed firm in Kazakhstan.
NeurIPS 2024 — QIANets
QIANets: Integrating Quantum-Inspired Adaptive Techniques for Reduced Latency and Improved Inference Times in CNN ModelsYoungest researcher from Berkeley to publish in a major conference.
Carnegie Mellon University — Synthetic Data for Rare Diseases
Worked on synthetic data generation for rare diseases using diffusion models to accelerate clinical trials.
IASEAI'25 — Robotics Safety
Theoretical Foundations of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models: Convergence, Information Dynamics, and OptimizationRobotics Safety paper which got published in IASEAI'25 (paris) (youngest publisher there).
Join Substrate
Worked as an ML researcher & first hire at joinsubstrate.com.
Press & Highlights
Contact
message me if you are doing cool research
zyb2003@columbia.edu