experience
Workera, San Francisco, CA
lead product manager | 2025
leading product for Andrew Ng's AI upskilling platform
RadiantGraph, San Francisco, CA
head of product | 2024 - 2025
voice AI agents and personalization for healthcare engagement.
iyo (Google X spinoff), San Francisco, CA
senior product manager | 2023 - 2024
audioOS platform for AI audio wearable.
projectus.ai, Cambridge, MA
co-founder & product lead | 2021 - 2023
AI coach for emotional intelligence.
MIT Media Lab & Weill Cornell Medicine, Cambridge, MA
graduate researcher | 2021 - 2023
AI empathy models for mental health applications.
MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
teaching assistant | 2021 - 2022
assisted Innovating for Impact course.
Impact Hub, EMEA
design consultant | 2019 - 2021
designed accelerator programs for Central Asian social entrepreneurs.
POWR, San Francisco, CA
growth product manager | 2019 - 2021
Shopify app ecosystem, 10M+ users, acquired by Pluribus.
Pinemelon, Kazakhstan & Denver, CO
founding product manager | 2017 - 2019
sustainable online grocery, 0→300 daily orders.
s.me Kazakhstan
co-founder | 2017 - 2018
smart metering for residential energy.
Kapchagay Solar Power Plant, Kazakhstan
electrical engineering intern | 2014 - 2015
power electronics for utility-scale solar.
Power Electronics Research Lab at NU
undergraduate researcher | 2014 - 2016
sustainable power systems research.
education
research & writing

research

integrating technology into undergraduate medical education: can affective computing help teach empathy?
Academic Psychiatry, 2023
behavioral design for emotional intelligence: leveraging affective computing in medical education for improved care for substance use disorders
MIT thesis, 2023
novel voltage target ratios and minimal norm principle for reconfigurable multiphase single- and dual-output switched capacitor converters
IET power electronics conference, 2016

writing

why trust in AI isn't just an interface problem ℑ
AI for becoming better humans? ℨ
Gleick vs Harari ℳ
ask Claude to draw a self-portrait ℬ
the consumer AI event that wasn't ℌ
speaking & recognition

speaking

recognition

community
reading time bookclub
organizer | 2025 | San Francisco, CA
Silk Road Innovation Hub
mentor | 2023-2024 | Palo Alto, CA
Astana Hub
advisor | 2023-2024 | Kazakhstan
MISTI Brazil Healthtech Accelerator
mentor | 2022-2023 | Boston, MA - Brazil
MIT Global Startup Workshop
head of partnerships | 2022 | Boston, MA - Georgia
Cross-University Startup Innovators mixer
organizer | 2022 | Boston, MA
Impact Hub
design consultant & mentor | 2020-2021 | EMEA
NU Hack
co-founder | 2016 | Kazakhstan
IET
chapter lead | 2016-2017 | Kazakhstan
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