Ari Nubar Boyacıoğlu

Արի Նուպար Պոյաճըօղլու

MS in Computer Science with AI Specialization

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Who am I?

A Master's Degree Graduate; passionate about AI, NLP, and language technologies

As a Master’s Degree Graduate deeply passionate about artificial intelligence and language technologies, I've spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives by developing the first Neural Machine Translation model for Western Armenian and English. Currently, I oversee its ongoing enhancement and data collection processes, employing pipeline tools and conducting extensive research to test and update relevant technologies daily. I thrive on projects addressing real-world challenges and I'm poised to transition into industry roles, leveraging data and AI to tackle societal issues head-on.

Known for my meticulous attention to detail and adaptability, I excel at distilling complex concepts into clear, actionable insights. My ability to maintain focus and dedication has been instrumental in academia and early career. I'm always open to exploring new ideas and forging meaningful connections in the pursuit of innovation and societal impact. Feel free to reach out to me for further discussion and collaboration.

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My Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Building tools that process human languages like LLMs, NMT, etc.

Data Mining & Processing

Gathering relevant data from large repositories and preparing them for NLP tasks.

Software Development

Implementing software for data visualization and automation.

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My Resume

Experience

Maintainer - Western Armenian-English Parallel Corpus

Nov 2023 – Current
  • Expansion of the Western Armenian-English parallel corpus with new material.
  • Continuous integration of new material into the NMT system.
  • Built a data processing pipeline for expanding the Western Armenian-English parallel corpus.
  • Developed a bitext miner and integrated into the data processing pipeline.
  • Continuously searching for additional resources and adding into the pipeline.

Software Developer - Zoom Recorder/Streamer

KIT AI4LT
Sept 2015 – Nov 2015
  • Developed a streaming bot that automatically joins internal Zoom calls and streams to the Lecture Translator system to be processed simultaneously.

Software Developer - Smart Contracts/Automation

KIT AIFB
Sept 2015 – Nov 2015
  • Supported in the implementation of a blockchain‑based academic document publication platform by building and testing smart contracts with Truffle and Ganache.
  • Developed scripts to automatize communication with the IPFS-Cluster.
  • Developed automatic cover page generator and integrated into thesis submission pipeline.
  • Implemented automation scripts for tasks like forward and backward search as well as extracting data from research papers.

Education

Master's Degree – Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Oct. 2020 – Nov. 2023
  • Graduated with Artificial Intelligence specialization.
  • Thesis: Neural Machine Translation between the Endangered Language Western Armenian and English
    • Paper Presented in SIGUL24, a workshop of LREC-COLING: Paper
    • Developed the first Neural Machine Translation model for Western Armenian and English.
    • Built the first Western Armenian-English parallel corpus which currently contains 150K sentence pairs.
    • Evaluated zero-shot translation performance of SOTA models on Western Armenian text.
    • Investigated methods for boosting low-resource language translation performance on Western Armenian.

Bachelor's Degree – Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2020
  • Thesis: Investigating the Change of User Behavior in Smartphone Usage and Importance During Social Distancing Caused by COVID‑19
    • Conducted a longitudinal study about the change in smartphone usage behavior of groups of individuals in Germany and Turkey during the COVID‑19 pandemic in 2020.
    • Processed and analyzed the data with statistical tools.
  • Practice of Software Development: Data Visualization Software for One-Class Active Learning
    • End-to-end design, documentation, development and deployment of a data visualization software with a team of 5 students
    • Carried out task assignment, supported in tasks that required additional workforce, and took initiative in critical situations.

Skills

  • Python

  • PyTorch

  • MS Office

  • TensorFlow

  • Django

  • React

  • Solidity

  • Docker

  • HTML/CSS

  • SQL

  • Java

  • C

  • LaTeX

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Haskell

Languages

  • Armenian (Western) - Native

  • Turkish - Native

  • English - C2

  • German - C2

  • Italian - A2

Assets

  • PyTorch Fairseq Pandas MLOps TensorFlow Git MongoDB Truffle Ganache HTML5 Flask REST API Analytical Thinking Deep Focus (Non-)Technical Communication Multifaceted Team Player Eager to Learn Initiative Taking Completionist Dutiful

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