YAN KUCHIN was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Kazakh National University, Almaty, in 2002; his bachelor’s degree in computer science from IITU, Almaty, in 2011; and his Master’s degree in computer science, in 2016. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Riga Technical University. From 2004 to 2018, he worked at Kazatomprom. Since 2018, he has been a Programmer-Engineer at the Institute of Information and Computing Technologies and a Researcher at Satbayev University. He was the author of more than 30 articles. His research interests include geophysics, machine learning, data processing, and natural language processing.