Nazarbayev University

Projects

Projects per year 2011 2023

• 4 Curtailed
• 73 Not started
• 98 Finished
• 141 Active

Projects per year

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  Editing Popular Literature: Variability and Performativity in Mixed Literary-Oral Literature and the Feasibility of an Open Access Electronic Text and Research Platform for these Text Genres

  Dagyeli, J.

  2/1/20 → 1/31/21

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Central Asia 100%
  • Asia 58%
  • Electronic Texts 58%
  • Open Access 53%
  • Editing 52%

• Clinicopathologic Features and Immunohistochemical Characteristics of DNA Mismatch Repair Deficient Colorectal Cancer Among Kazakhstani Patients

  Tanko, M., Midlenko, A., Ashimkanova, A., Riethmacher, D. & Riethmacher, E.

  9/1/19 → 9/30/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Neoplasms 100%
  • Colorectal Neoplasms 96%
  • Microsatellite Instability 93%
  • Germ-Line Mutation 51%
  • Kazakhstan 23%

• Medical Adherence From the Provider Perspective in Kazakhstan

  Moore, R. A.

  5/15/19 → 8/15/19

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Kazakhstan 100%

• Determining the state of STEM/STEAM education at the primary school level in Kazakhstan

  Malone, K., Helmer, J., Dukenova, A. & Assanbayev, A.

  5/1/19 → 5/31/21

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • career 58%
  • student 58%
  • primary school 43%
  • primary school teacher 40%

• Biosocial Imaginaries: Forming Human and Environmental Health Subjectivities

  Moore, R. A.

  2/25/19 → 2/25/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Environmental Health 100%
  • subjectivity 78%
  • environment crisis 60%
  • Kazakhstan 48%
  • natural resources 39%

• Investigation of collagen fibril diameter in cow/bovine anterior cruciate ligament

  Erisken, C.

  2/1/19 → 1/31/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • nanofibers 100%
  • surgery 82%
  • animal models 72%
  • collagen 54%
  • cattle 24%

• DSEN: Diagnosing Children with Special Educational Needs in Kazakhstan

  Pather, S., Somerton, M., Stolyarova, V. & Jaxybayeva, A.

  1/31/19 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • special educational needs 100%
  • Kazakhstan 96%
  • Autistic Disorder 87%
  • Neurologists 42%
  • Psychology 36%

• Forming Reliable Feature Correspondences and Distortion-free Graph Embedding with Deep Learning

  Demirci, M.

  1/31/19 → 6/30/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Deep learning 100%
  • Image retrieval 86%

• Creating conditions for inclusive education in Kazakhstan: A case study of a resource center in Astana

  Kasa, R., Helmer, J., Somerton, M., Makoelle, T., Hernández-Torrano, D. & Tazhiyeva, A.

  10/1/18 → 4/30/19

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • education 70%
  • research project 67%
  • inclusion 62%
  • group education 60%

• Analysis of historical trends of air pollutants concentrations in the cities of Kazakhstan and assessment of their future concentrations estimated until 2050 according to “Business as usual” and “OECD Standards” scenarios

  Lee, W.

  8/1/18 → 7/31/19

  Project: Other

  • OECD 100%
  • pollutant concentration 88%
  • air pollutant 78%
  • city 46%
  • project 43%

• Early Career Teachers: How prepared are they for the job?

  Helmer, J., Assanbayev, A., Malone, K., Tussupbekova, G., Dukenova, A. & Namyssova, G.

  7/18/18 → 9/30/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • teacher 100%
  • career 85%
  • classroom 42%
  • teaching program 29%
  • Kazakhstan 29%

• A study of public values in Kazakhstan

  Orazgaliyev, S.

  7/1/18 → 6/30/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • public sector 75%
  • Code of Conduct 54%
  • content analysis 51%
  • developing country 34%

• New Forms of Diagrammatic Logic

  Pietarinen, A.

  5/1/18 → 4/30/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  File

  • Logic 100%
  • Immune System 43%
  • Notation 35%
  • Human Mind 23%
  • Language 20%

• Advancing the State-of the-Art Research and Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Kazakhstan

  Foster, F., Chan, C. K. & An, S.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • Child Care 39%
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder 38%
  • Papanicolaou Test 20%
  • Papillomavirus Infections 19%

• An investigation into the anti-microbial and immunomodulatory properties of Kazakhstan honeys in relation to disorders of the skin

  McLoone, P.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • Ministry of Education 96%
  • Disorder 78%
  • grant 75%
  • Antimicrobial Agent 64%

• Highly controllable rapid melting of nuclear fuels by nanosecond pulse lasers: real-time laser ultrasonics, pyrometry, reflectometry and Raman spectroscopy studies with high spatio-temporal resolution

  Utegulov, Z.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • nuclear fuels 100%
  • temporal resolution 89%
  • education 84%
  • temperature measurement 77%
  • Raman spectroscopy 72%

• Center of Excellence for Fundamental and Applied Physics

  Utegulov, Z., Zondy, J., Valagiannopoulos, C., Desyatnikov, A., Mandilara, A., Bubin, S. & Abdikamalov, E.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • physics 100%
  • Kazakhstan 66%
  • education 58%
  • materials science 21%
  • astrophysics 17%

• VSAT: Vibration- and weight-optimised shape memory metal-matrix-composite honeycomb architecture for satellite structures

  Spitas, C.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • metal matrix composites 100%
  • Shape memory effect 88%
  • education 80%
  • Education 69%
  • vibration 53%

• Understanding Fast Radio Bursts, and Exploiting Them as Probes of New Physics and Cosmology

  Abdikamalov, E., Nurmukhanbetova, A., Smoot, G. F., Denissenya, M., Shafiee, M. & Koshkinbayeva, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • physics 100%
  • funding 92%
  • radio 85%
  • education 83%

• Deep Learning for Sequential Models in Natural Language Processing with Applications to Kazakh

  Assylbekov, Z., Takhanov, R., Kashkynbayev, A., Myrzakhmetov, B., Salimzianov, I., Baltabayeva, A., Tanekeyev, G., Bissengaliyeva, D., Tuleuov, Z., Sadvakasov, S. & Bisazza, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Deep learning 100%
  • Open source software 62%
  • Deep neural networks 54%
  • Education 47%
  • Neural networks 33%

• Development and Prototyping of Extrusion Dies for Advanced Plastic Sheets and Thin Film Production

  Wei, D. & Perveen, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • funding 100%
  • education 90%
  • Polypropylenes 90%
  • Plastic films 85%
  • Thin films 83%

• Development of a CCL5-based lead compound for Staphylococcus aureus infection inhibition

  Vangelista, L.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Staphylococcus aureus 100%
  • leukotoxin 93%
  • Staphylococcal Infections 88%
  • Lead 61%
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents 38%

• A Novel Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Myocardial Infarction

  Saparov, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Drug Delivery Systems 100%
  • Myocardial Infarction 73%
  • Education 63%
  • Therapeutics 16%

• Methods for Safe Human Robot Interaction with Variable Impedance Actuated Robots

  Varol, H. A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • robots 100%
  • Industry 4.0 99%
  • Human robot interaction 93%
  • Education 68%
  • Acoustic impedance 59%

• Pulsed plasma-chemical synthesis of new generation TiO2 photo catalysts

  Tikhonov, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • education 100%
  • catalysts 94%
  • synthesis 73%

• Study of biomarkers associated with oral cavity diseases among the adolescents from different regions of Kazakhstan

  Zhumadilova, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • biomarkers 80%
  • Ministry of Education 63%
  • education 58%
  • grant 49%

• Intellectual-Academic Networks and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production and Transfer in Kazakhstan

  Bissenova, A.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • funding 89%
  • knowledge transfer 87%
  • Ministry of Education 84%
  • knowledge production 83%

• Investment potential of the sacred geography of Kazakhstan: geospace monitoring, IT technology and historical-cultural analysis in the production of an electronic atlas of the Republic.

  Tsyrempilov, N. & Forêt, P.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • cultural analysis 100%
  • Geographical Information System 90%
  • historical analysis 88%
  • Kazakhstan 88%
  • Ministry of Education 85%

• EASG 1: Investment Potential of the Sacred Geography of Kazakhstan: Geospatial Monitoring, IT Technology, and Historical-Cultural Analysis in the Production of an Electronic Atlas of the Republic

  Forêt, P., Tsyrempilov, N., Beben, Z., Bigozhin, U., Bowen, E., Dupuy, P., Garipova, R. & Scarborough, D.

  4/6/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • republic 41%
  • philosophy of history 37%
  • cultural analysis 28%
  • Central Asia 25%

• Social Policy Research Grant

  Savevska, M.

  4/1/18 → 3/31/19

  Project: Monitored by School

  • macroeconomics 100%
  • member state 93%
  • Eurozone 70%
  • surveillance 63%
  • Social Policy 47%

• New NSOM sensor: Research and development of the new Nano-Optical Sensor based on Polymer Optical Fiber for Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

  Dukenbayev, K., Tosi, D., Dietler, G. & Sekatskii, S. K.

  4/1/18 → 3/31/19

  Project: Monitored by School

  • optical measuring instruments 100%
  • optical fibers 67%
  • polymers 52%
  • research and development 50%
  • near fields 38%

• Riding the Imperial Wave: Eighteenth-Century Elites on the Peripheries of the Russian Empire

  Murphy, C.

  3/31/18 → 2/28/20

  Project: Monitored by School

  • Elites 100%
  • Rhetoric 88%
  • Russian Empire 37%
  • 18th Century 29%
  • Social Policy 26%

• Affordable Robot Assisted Gait Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors

  Jamwal, P. & Purushothama, C.

  3/20/18 → 5/31/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Patient rehabilitation 100%
  • Robotics 91%
  • Robots 80%
  • Physical therapy 43%
  • Muscle 42%

• Risk Analysis Methodology for Automated Mine Ventilation Systems

  Sabanov, S., Madani, N., Karzhau, A., Aldamzharov, B., Alnazar, N. & Mukhamedyarova, Z.

  3/20/18 → 6/30/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • ventilation 100%
  • risk analysis 69%
  • methodology 38%
  • safety 18%
  • methane 14%

• Non-Mendelian genetics: Regulation of imprinted genes by HP1 proteins

  Singh, P. & Riethmacher, D.

  3/20/18 → 6/1/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Histone Code 100%
  • DNA Methylation 86%
  • Proteins 80%
  • Mammals 77%
  • Genes 35%

• Smart Drying Opportunities

  Spotar, S.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • apples 100%
  • drying 91%
  • melons 73%
  • air 50%
  • ambient temperature 47%

• Energy, Economic and Environmental evaluation of buildings integrated with phase change materials in different climate zones of the world

  Memon, S., Nadeem, A., Cui, H. Z., Lo, T. Y., Kim, J., Mussard, M. & Shon, C.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Ashes 100%
  • climate zone 72%
  • Waste utilization 68%
  • energy economics 68%
  • Straw 59%

• Economic Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Kazakhstan

  Howie, P., Akhmetov, D. & Gupta, S.

  3/20/18 → 6/30/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • emissions trading scheme 100%
  • emissions trading 97%
  • economy 41%
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 40%
  • cost 35%

• High-dimensional Data Analytics for Genome-Wide Association Studies: An Application to Alcoholism

  Zollanvari, A., Dougherty, E. R. & Agrawal, A.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Data Science 100%
  • Alcoholism 78%
  • Linear Discriminant Analysis 77%
  • Classifier 72%
  • Bayesian Classification 68%

• Multi-scale Investigation of the Machining Behavior of Non-conductive Ceramics Using Electro Discharge Machining

  Perveen, A., Jahan, M. P. & Talamona, D.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/19

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Electric discharge machining 100%
  • machining 96%
  • Machining 60%
  • ceramics 48%
  • aluminum nitrides 44%

• Periostin in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) development and synergistic effects mediated via CCL5 and MMP9.

  Riethmacher, D., Riethmacher, E., Vangelista, L., Ashimkhanova, A., Adrisova, K., Kuatbai, G., Kim , A. K. & Ainur Abdrakhmanova, A.

  3/20/18 → 6/30/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease 3 100%
  • inflammatory bowel disease 81%
  • Kazakhstan 67%
  • physicians 59%
  • communication (human) 59%

• Optimal design and development of multi-nozzle and multi-material based lower cost 3D printer

  Ali, M. H., Kurokawa, S., Zhao, Y., Samad Kamal, A. & Shariff Ullah, A.

  3/20/18 → 4/30/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Nozzles 100%
  • 3D printers 87%
  • Extruders 67%
  • Extrusion 55%
  • Shape optimization 40%

• Super transmitters, radiators and lenses via photonic synthetic matter

  Valagiannopoulos, C., Kovanis, V., Tsitsas, N., Papadimopoulos, A., Duspayev, A., Sarsen, A., Abrashuly, A., Sheverdin, A. & Zhiyenbayev, Y.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  File

  • Photonics 100%
  • Photonic Crystal 70%
  • Scattering 61%
  • Diode 60%
  • Radiators 59%

• Exploring Re-adjustment Experiences of Kazakhstani Returning Scholars

  Kuzhabekova, A.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Kazakhstan 100%
  • remigration 52%
  • experience 49%
  • development of science 31%
  • human resource management 30%

• Imaging in Seismic Exploration

  Kashkynbayev, A., Erlangga, Y. A. & Castilla, A. C.

  3/20/18 → 3/31/21

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Shunting Inhibitory Cellular Neural Networks 100%
  • Cellular neural networks 86%
  • Activation Function 77%
  • Inverse problems 70%
  • inverse problem 68%

• Quality Issues in Rural Schools in Kazakhstan

  Tajik, M., Shamatov, D., Kurakbayev, K., Sadvakassova, D. & Ablayeva, M.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  File

  • rural school 100%
  • Kazakhstan 68%
  • education 20%
  • education administration 15%
  • UNICEF 14%

• Structure-Property correlations in multi-scale composites

  Wang, Y., Papathanasiou, A., Sumbekova, S., Grenoble, U., Tsiantis, А., Hatzikiriakos, S. & Dobri, A.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • heat transfer 100%
  • Composite materials 86%
  • Analytical Model 86%
  • phase change materials 81%
  • composite materials 78%

• FOSTHER: Fiber-optic smart textiles for biophysical real-time measurement of breathing pattern, blood pressure, body temperature

  Molardi, C., Tosi, D., Selleri, S., Perrone, G. & Schena, E.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Fiber Bragg gratings 100%
  • Smart textiles 81%
  • Fiber optics 74%
  • fiber optics 59%
  • thrombin 51%

• Hardware and Software Based Methods for Safe Human-Robot Interaction with Variable Impedance Robots

  Varol, H. A., Rubagotti, M., Zhakatayev, A., Saudabayev, A., Massalin, Y., Adiyatov, O. & Moldagaliyeva, A.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • Robots 100%
  • Human robot interaction 94%
  • Acoustic impedance 93%
  • Computer hardware 46%
  • Wheels 27%

• Casimir Light as a Probe of Vacuum Fluctuation Amplification

  Good, M., Kovanis, V., Malafarina, D. & Oikonomou, T.

  3/20/18 → 12/31/20

  Project: Monitored by Research Administration

  • space law 100%
  • Entropy 79%
  • entropy 71%
  • vacuum 62%
  • analogs 59%