Ayana Mussabayeva
Languages
English (Professional, IELTS: 8.0)
Russian (First language)
Kazakh (Second language)
Skills
Awards
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), 2023
CodeJam to I/O for Women coding competition winner, 2019
Community Service
Co-founder of DSML KZ
Community of data scientists in Kazakhstan with over 7,000 members
Visit WebsiteExperience
Advising CTO
QData | August 2025 - Present
Astana, Kazakhstan
CTO (Dec 2024 - Jul 2025) | Head of AI/ML (Oct 2024 - Dec 2024)
Green Eye Ltd | October 2024 - July 2025
Remote
Head of AI/ML
INUI GAMING | October 2023 - October 2024
Dubai, UAE
Senior Lecturer
Kazakh-British Technical University | January 2023 - June 2023
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Teaching Assistant
University of Manchester | February 2022 - December 2022
Manchester, UK
Education
PhD in Machine Learning
Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence | August 2024 - Present
Abu-Dhabi, UAE
Global top 20 across ML, CV, NLP (CSRankings), world's first AI university
MPhil. in Mathematical Sciences
University of Manchester | August 2021 - August 2023
Manchester, UK
Ranked 34th in the world and 6th in the UK (QSRankings)
MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nazarbayev University | August 2019 - June 2021
Astana, Kazakhstan
Top-1 research university in Kazakhstan
BEng. in Automation and Control
Kazakh-British Technical University | August 2015 - June 2019
Almaty, Kazakhstan
ABET accredited university