About

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Hey there I’m Muhtasham! I hope your world’s going well. I’ll bet you’re cool 😉

I spent my pre-training days in Urmetan village and went to high school in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. During high school, I enjoyed tinkering with computers and participating in various olympiads.

I speak five languages: Tajik, Turkish, Russian, English, and German. I’m also reasonably well-versed in several programming languages.

Right now, I live and work in Germany, but I’ve previously lived in Turkey and South Korea. After a few visits to the US, I’m considering moving there and settling down. If you can help me with that, feel free to reach out!

My current areas of interest:

  • Specialized hardware for machine learning
  • Efficient model training, inference, and serving
  • Distributed and parallel learning algorithms
  • ML compilers and runtime
  • Hardware-efficient ML methods
  • Systems for Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning for Systems

While it’s not easy thing I am trying concentrating intensely on the right problems, and remaining open to fresh perspectives. In addition to my hands-on work with ML technologies, I’m passionate about sharing knowledge and insights through writing and speaking engagements on topics related to ML systems, engineering, and personal reflections. That being said, I love tackling challenging technical problems and welcome opportunities for collaboration.

I’m passionate about mobile photography. You might have noticed this from the thumbnails of my blog entries.

This thought intrigues me: while visual thumbnails offer an instantaneous snapshot of an image, what serves as the equivalent for language? Our eyes can swiftly scan a set of thumbnails and capture an underlying theme from them. But when it comes to language, what provides that immediate insight? Perhaps such a concept doesn’t quite fit in the realm of words.

I have had the opportunity to share my insights and knowledge of others through several public talks. These talks encompass various topics including GenAI, LLM deployments, Autonomous Agents, and classical NLP. Feel free to delve into the resources linked below to explore the depth of these topics: