AI Engineering · Deep Learning · Software
Nikoloz Kipshidze ნიკა ყიფშიძე
AI engineering student at MBZUAI, based in Abu Dhabi and originally from Georgia.
My work is mostly deep learning: language models, computer vision, transformers and generative models. A lot of my independent work is intentionally built from scratch.
Background
Co-Founder & AI Lead
Led machine-learning development for a retail-theft detection prototype using roughly 10,000 real-world CCTV recordings.
Implemented and trained a custom ViViT video transformer from scratch in PyTorch and built annotation, dataset and experimentation tooling for the surrounding ML workflow.
Full-Stack Developer & Technical Mentor
Built backend APIs, database infrastructure and automation tools for educational platforms using Python and Django.
Mentored junior developers in Python, backend engineering, Git, project design and technical problem solving.
Selected & archived work
Competitions
Tools & interests
PyTorch, transformers, causal language modeling, masked language modeling, pre-training, fine-tuning, tokenization, inference and evaluation.
Dataset collection, web scraping, preprocessing, annotation systems, training-corpus construction, NumPy, Pandas, Polars, SQLite and MongoDB.
Python, FastAPI, Django, Git, Linux, Docker, backend APIs and ML training infrastructure.
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