Leadership and partners

The people who lead Youth in Tech, and the organizations that host and support the community. Community members work in project teams; credit for individual projects is given on the Projects page.

Leadership

Bahrom Ashurov

Founder, Youth in Tech

Bahrom began teaching free programming and olympiad-math lessons at Abdurahmoni Jomi Private School in 2025, which became Youth in Tech. He is a medalist of international programming olympiads, built the first version of eMaktab.tj, and teaches the community's AI Introduction Club.

Contact: bahromasurov708@gmail.com

Community team

Members with roles in running Youth in Tech's programs.

Suman Odinazoda

Programs Coordinator

Qodir Ahmadzoda

Learning Experience Associate and Community Mentor

Partners and host organizations

Peshraft

A youth volunteering organization in Dushanbe and Youth in Tech's first partner. It provides space, computers, internet, and infrastructure for sessions and project work. The Project Innovation Lab meets at its premises on M. Kurbonov St. 4.

Makerspace at American Space

Youth in Tech is a resident of the Makerspace, a residency won after the community pitched at Pizza Pitch. Bahrom also volunteers with American Space's educational programs.

Abdurahmoni Jomi Private School

Hosts the AI & Coding Club on F. Muhammadieva St. 24/1 and supported the community's earliest free lessons.

Rousto Foundation

Supports joint outreach trips with Peshraft and American Space, helping students in remote districts connect to eMaktab.tj.

Community sessions and project work

Bahrom Ashurov standing next to a screen titled Artificial Intelligence — Bahrom Ashurov presenting an introduction to artificial intelligence.

Bahrom Ashurov leaning over a laptop to discuss a project with two members — Discussing a project with community members.

Five community members seated at a table while Bahrom Ashurov speaks — A working session around a shared table.

Inside an AI Introduction Club session

Bahrom Ashurov teaching a session on how neural networks learn, using short code examples and diagrams. The AI Introduction Club is one of the community's programs; sessions at American Space Dushanbe are also called the Super Intelligence Club.

Bahrom Ashurov standing beside a screen that reads The whole brain is five lines, showing a short neural network in code — A five-line neural network in PyTorch: 784 pixels in, 128 hidden neurons, 10 scores out.

Bahrom Ashurov in front of a screen showing the learning pipeline as five steps — The machine-learning pipeline: feature vectors, a training algorithm, a learned model, a new transaction.

Bahrom Ashurov in front of a screen titled Classification is a decision boundary, with points separated by a line — Classification as a decision boundary, using legitimate and fraudulent transactions as the example.

Bahrom Ashurov pointing at a slide about loading handwritten digits in batches while participants watch from behind — Loading the MNIST handwritten-digit dataset in batches of 64, with participants following along.

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