About Me

I’m the Head of AI Provenance at Polygraf AI, where I lead the development of AI content detection and source attribution technology.

Previously, I completed my M.S. in Computer Science at George Washington University, where I worked with Dr. Samir Rustamov on building a pre-trained language model for the Azerbaijani language.

Patents

US Patent 12,572,519
System and Method for Identifying and Determining a Content Source. A computer-implemented system for detecting AI-generated content and attributing it to specific source models using transformer-based analysis with a shifting window technique.
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Press

$9.5M Seed Round
Polygraf AI closed a $9.5M seed round led by Allegis Capital, announced at TechCrunch Disrupt.
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Polygraf AI Team
RSAC 2026 Awards & Patent Coverage
Featured for patented AI content detection technology and cybersecurity awards at RSAC 2026.
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Talks

Product Star Baku 2025
Shared the Polygraf AI startup story at "Let's Talk Startup Stories", organized by Product Star with Agile Pulse support.
Product Star Baku 2025
Take Off Istanbul 2025
Presented Polygraf AI's approach to AI security and content provenance at the 8th edition of the region's largest tech summit (500+ startups, 260+ investors, 40 countries). Led conversations on trustworthy media and auditability in high-risk environments, and demonstrated on-prem explainable SLMs for Zero Trust AI governance.
Take Off Istanbul 2025
Polygraf AI Fireside Chat
Fireside chat on locally deployed AI for critical operations, with discussions on small vs. large models, privacy-preserving AI, and secure enterprise adoption.
Polygraf AI Fireside Chat Austin
TRISS 2025
Provenance in the Age of AI: Detecting and Defending Against Synthetic Threats. Presented multi-modal detection techniques for synthetic content, provenance chains for zero-trust environments, and enterprise deployment strategies for on-premise AI detection systems.
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TRISS 2025

Projects

AzLlama
The first generative language model pre-trained for Azerbaijani. A 152M-parameter LLaMA model that outperforms models 100x its size (including Mixtral-8x22B) on Azerbaijani benchmarks, thanks to a custom tokenizer with 3x better compression than multilingual alternatives. Built with a full 8-stage pipeline from data collection to evaluation.
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AzLlama Architecture
GradiPy
A deep learning library built from scratch using only NumPy, with a custom autograd engine and PyTorch-like API. Implements backpropagation, optimizers (SGD, Adam), and architectures (ResNet, AlexNet) from the ground up.
PyPIGitHub