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 10,000 members
Visit Website3rd International Olympiad in AI (IOAI) 2026 Host Committee member
Host Committee member
Experience
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