Tair Narynov — student, researcher, and builder

TAIR NARYNOV
STUDENT · RESEARCHER · BUILDER
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◇ HELLO ◇
NARYNOV

I build, research, and try to understand things.

Computational biology, machine learning, and the spaces between.

KAZAKHSTAN→NEW YORK→SAN DIEGO→TORONTO
ABOUT

I'm Tair — just graduated from High Bluff Academy in San Diego. Originally from Kazakhstan, I've spent the last few years figuring out what I want to do — so far I'm most drawn to the intersection of AI and biology, but who knows.

This fall I'm heading to the University of Toronto for Computer Science, with a membership at Victoria College. Planning to focus on machine learning and data science with a minor in biology.

I speak English, Russian, and Kazakh.

WORK
  • VIVIDFORMS
    Software engineer at a robotic fabrication studio in Almaty. Modeled measurement error and fixed marker detection for a camera rover that maps the workshop to about 2 mm, so ceiling projectors can show sculptors where to work. Also built a WebXR viewer that puts CAD models on the shop floor at full scale.
    Summer 2026 — present
  • BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH
    ML models for pancreatic cancer drug discovery — PIM1/PAK4 kinase inhibition. With Scripps & UCSD.
    2024 — present
  • AMANUENSIS
    AI-native text editor for drafting prose in your own voice. Learns a statistical fingerprint from your own writing samples and from your edits to generated text. Drafts, critiques, and revises with a different model on each pass. Has an in-house AI detector that benches on par with commercial state of the art.
    2026
  • CARBONFLOW
    AI carbon credit marketplace with vector-based semantic matching. Code4Hope finalist, presented at Microsoft NYC. Best Design Award at Katy Youth Hacks 2025. 5th place in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge with a from Rep. Scott Peters (CA-50).
    2025
  • GITGUARD
    Python/Typer CLI for secret and vulnerability-pattern scanning across files, directories, ZIPs, and GitHub repos. Uses provider regexes, context-aware assignment parsing, entropy scoring, ranked findings, and a model-selectable agentic harness for reviewed patch generation. Best UI/UX Award at CipherHacks 2026. .
    June 2026
  • THINK NEURO
    Bibliometric study on GNNs for drug repurposing in neuropsychiatric disorders. Collaborated with undergrads from Columbia, UC Berkeley, Purdue, and Seattle U. R programming (50-hr certified), Web of Science analysis across 100+ papers. Co-authored abstract, poster, and oral defense.
    Summer 2025
  • ROBOTICS
    FIRST Robotics software developer on Marauder Tech Team. Led a team of three to 1st place at the Aerospace Robotics Coding Competition exhibition with an autonomous drone whose ML vision system detects color-coded, hand-numbered balloons, logs their positions, and navigates to pop them.
    2023 — present
  • SWE KNIGHTHACKS
    1st place at the Bishops School hackathon. Led a cross-school team to build a Chrome extension that gamified studying — XP, levels, and an ML-powered attention tracker that used webcam input to detect focus loss. Awarded by Lockheed Martin.
    2024
NOW
LISTENING·connecting…READING·All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque

a small window into what i'm into right now.