Margulan Ismoldayev

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Email: [email protected]

About:

I am Margulan Ismoldayev, a research intern at INSAIT in the summer of 2025, working with Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov, Prof. Martin Vechev and Ivo Petrov. I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Physics at MIT. My project focuses on the security of Federated Learning, specifically studying ‘gradient leakage’ attacks that can reconstruct private images from model updates. I am particularly investigating the privacy vulnerabilities of modern Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA September 2023 – May 2027 B.S. in Computer Science & Physics 

Awards:

International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO): Overall Winner (2022); Gold (2022, 2021, 2019)

International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA): Gold (2020); Silver (2022, 2021)

International Physics Olympiad (IPhO): Silver (2022); Bronze (2023)

European Physics Olympiad: Silver (2022, 2023)

Balkan Physics Olympiad: Gold (2022)

Relevant Experience:

Undergraduate Researcher, MIT Quantum Photonics & AI Group, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2024 – May 2024 Research Assistant,

Popmintchev Labs / Quantum Optics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Jul 2022 – Oct 2022