About
I’m an AI and Computer Science student at the University of Edinburgh, supported by the Azerbaijani State Scholarship. I currently work as an AI Engineer Intern at ABB Invest and collaborate with Houston Lab on computational drug-discovery tooling. I’m especially interested in AI for biology, developer systems, HCI, and cognitive AI.
Work Experience
Research Experience
- Building the web platform and distributed execution layer that turns a command-line ligand-preparation and virtual-screening pipeline into a public research tool, as an open alternative to parts of the proprietary LigPrep suite.
- Designing the multi-server worker architecture: job distribution across compute nodes, database-backed status tracking, shared storage, retry logic, deployment, and monitoring.
- Working on lab compute infrastructure over VPN/SSH; listed as a lab collaborator and designated co-author on the planned publication of the toolkit.
Awards
Skills
Things I have been building
A few projects I built while learning, testing ideas, and working with teams. They focus on computational biology, applied AI, developer tools, and HCI.
AI for Bio
3gemiz
An alpha FASTA-to-SBML toolkit for bacterial genome-scale metabolic reconstruction, combining pyrodigal gene calling, MMseqs2 reaction scoring, COBRApy/HiGHS model assembly, and inspectable evidence and quality-control artifacts.
library-prep-pipeline
A controlled-alpha platform for preparing large molecular libraries for virtual screening. PostgreSQL owns job state, NATS JetStream queues the work, and each RDKit/nvMolKit chemistry job runs in a bounded offline container on one approved GPU host.
myco-optima
A fermentation planning tool from Edinburgh BioHackathon 2026. It uses GEMs and FBA/FVA to help compare media choices for four fungi, then turns a large design-of-experiments table into a smaller set of runs.
Applied AI
2whisper-az
A reproducible Azerbaijani speech-recognition benchmark and LoRA fine-tuning pipeline for Whisper. A 13M-parameter adapter reduced FLEURS WER from 51.7% to 35.0%, close to full Whisper Medium at 34.3%.
Social Media Moderation
VM-ready moderation microservices for posts, comments, usernames, and images. The system combines OpenAI-based classification with deterministic policies, OCR, and perceptual-image matching behind one documented REST API.
Developer Tools
1Cognitive Science & HCI
1CogniCart
A virtual supermarket experiment for cognitive science. It looks at planning, working memory, inhibition, and flexibility, with eye tracking and behaviour logs built in.
Open Source
1Open-Source Python Libraries
Small Python packages I published while learning by building. Together they have 6,000+ downloads, including a Central Bank of Azerbaijan exchange-rate client, an Azerbaijani number-to-words converter, and a few cleaned datasets on Hugging Face.
Building under time pressure
Hackathons are a good way to find out whether an idea works outside your notes. These are the recent ones.
- A
AI Engine Hackathon
Scotland, UK
Built two projects here: circuit breaker for checking risky agent actions before they run, and mcpforge for turning a repo into an MCP server more quickly. - E
Edinburgh BioHackathon 2026
Edinburgh, UK
Worked on the Pacifico Biolabs track. I built myco-optima, a GEM-based tool for narrowing down media choices in fungal fermentation experiments.
Volunteer
Helped run peer mentoring and school technology activities for 200+ students.