KazNU Master's Student Wins the HackAlem AI 2026 Hackathon

"KazNU Master's Student Wins the HackAlem AI 2026 Hackathon

Alikhan Amirkhanov, a first-year Master's student in the “Data Science” educational program at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Faculty of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, took first place in the “Innovations” track at the HackAlem AI 2026 hackathon.

At the competition, Alikhan presented “Khattama” (“Minutes”), an AI-based project. The system processes the content of meetings held in Kazakh and Russian and automatically generates minutes.

Of the 1,066 projects submitted to the hackathon, 60 reached the final. The total prize fund was US$220,000.

The faculty team congratulates Alikhan on the victory and wishes new achievements and scientific success! #kaznu #ai #bigdata #artificialintelligence"