I'm Mustafa Aslanov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Currently studying dual-degree master's program in Computer Science and Data Analytics at ADA and GWU universities. Before coming to the US, I was also employed as an Application Consultant at a company named Caspian Innovation Center, a joint venture by SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation).
I have studied for my bachelor's degree at ADA as well, that is how I learned about this new degree. Which at the time was very handy considering that closer to graduation I have evolved an interest in the data analytics field. As a part of my research thesis (or as we call Senior Design Project), I was, together with my university mate, analyzing texts of Azerbaijani data and creating an n-gram model for it. Essentially, it was a Natural Language Processing project. The same paper was published on IEEE Xplore later after my mate and I participated in AICT2020 Conference. While I cannot say that this paper is very impressive, I feel a little bit proud as it is my first published paper!
Even though I mentioned that I am no longer employed by that company, I will be likely returning after I am back to Azerbaijan and naturally I have developed an interest in the petroleum industry and wanted to try to apply machine learning in that field as a part of my future master's thesis. This will be done with my program mate, Farida, who was also my co-worker at the same company.
Besides the educational and working areas, I'm quite an introverted person and tend to be quiet. Which is a bad personality trait as I barely share my opinions in the required fields. But hoping that I will fix that soon! According to Spotify analysis, my favorite music genre is alternative rock. However, if you ask few people who heard the songs I listen to, they will call them "depressing" songs. They are just calm! Among my favorite artists are Linkin Park, Daughter (Ex:Re), Nothing But Thieves, Twenty One Pilots, and Ben Howard. The list can go on but I decided to only specify the top 5 🙂