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Contact Information

Name Farruh Kushnazarov
Professional Title Senior GenAI Architect
Email farruh.kushnazarov@alibaba-inc.com

Professional Summary

Senior GenAI Architect at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Modeling and 10+ years of experience across AI research and industry. Specialising in agentic AI systems, RAG, LLM optimisation, and enterprise-grade GenAI solutions.

Experience

  • 2022 - present

    Shanghai, China

    Principal GenAI Architect
    Alibaba Cloud Global
    • Provide Generative AI solutions using foundation models (LLM, Stable Diffusion, etc.) for business use cases
    • Responsible for Generative AI solutions outside of China, such as Qwen, Animate Anyone, and EMO
    • Building and integrating information systems related to AI and Big Data to meet the company’s needs
    • Resolving technical Generative AI and AI/ML/DL problems as they arise
    • Providing supervision and guidance to development teams
    • Continually researching current and emerging technologies in computer vision, NLP, etc., and proposing changes where needed
    • Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have
    • Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets
  • 2020 - 2022

    Foshan, China

    Lead Research Engineer
    Midea HBT
    • Languages — Tensorflow, Keras, Python, SPARQL, Cypher, RDF, Ontology
    • Use data science methods to work with domain experts to develop and implement data-driven solutions
    • Work mainly involves data-driven predictive control, predictive maintenance, fault diagnosis, behavior pattern analysis, etc.
    • Carry out experimental design, data collection, data analysis, model building, model verification, model deployment, continuous iteration, and other aspects of work
    • Complete the data modeling analysis report, and carry out technical precipitation
    • Read relevant literature and keep up with the latest developments in data science and business
    • Interview potential candidates for the data scientist team
  • 2016 - 2020

    Shanghai, China

    Big Data & Data Scientist Manager
    Ping An Hao Xue, under Ping An (平安) China
    • Languages — Python, Tensorflow, Keras, R, RMarkdown, SQL, Spark and Hive
    • NLP projects including text classification, sentiment analysis, and text summarization
    • Implemented and retrained Mozilla DeepSpeech library for Automatic Speech Recognition
    • Created and tested the Speech Accent Classification System for native and non-native speakers, with a rate of 99% in metric recall
    • Conducted classification analyses of the customer life cycle stage to increase overall turnover
    • With algorithmic, optimized ongoing ML/DL models and checked the performance of implemented models
    • Established the Machine Learning model for refund customers and updated the refund model; decreased the overall refund rate to 27%
  • 2016 - 2016

    Shanghai, China

    Automatic Driving Prospective Technology Engineer
    Haima Automatic Investment Group Co. Ltd, R&D Center
    • Languages — C/C++, Python and Bash
    • Connected lidar and radar to decrease noises in raw data
    • Designed a model car to check the capability of algorithms on ultrasonic sensors
    • Optimized CANBus protocol to increase the efficiency of data transfer
    • Optimized joint work and logic compatibility of equipments

Education

  • 2012 - 2016

    St Petersburg, Russia

    PhD
    Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University
    Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Methods and Computer Programs
    • Develop data transmission methods for evaluating the real speed of data link layer protocols, aimed at improving hardware and software components
  • 2008 - 2010

    St Petersburg, Russia

    Master of Science
    Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University
    Information Systems and Technologies
    • Develop and optimize computer network systems
  • 2004 - 2008

    St Petersburg, Russia

    Bachelor of Computer Science
    Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University
    Information Systems and Technologies
    • Develop and optimize computer network systems

Skills

Generative AI (Expert): Agentic Systems, RAG, LLM Fine-tuning, Prompt Engineering, Multi-modal AI
Alibaba Cloud AI Stack (Expert): Qwen, AgentScope, CosyVoice, FunAudioLLM, Model Studio, PAI-EAS
Machine Learning (Expert): PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Anomaly Detection
Programming (Expert): Python, SQL, Bash, YAML, Markdown
Cloud & MLOps (Expert): Alibaba Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions

Languages

Uzbek : Native speaker
Russian : Fluent
English : Professional working proficiency
Chinese : Conversational