Zhanibek Kozhirbayev received his PhD in Computer Science from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU, Kazakhstan) in 2019 and his Master's degree in Information Technology (Distributed Computing) from the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 2015. Currently, he is a Leading Researcher at the National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University. His research interests include natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

Zhandos Yessenbayev received a PhD in computer science from L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU, Kazakhstan), a master's degree in computer science from the University of Chicago (The University of Chicago, USA) in 2008, and a specialist degree in applied mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISIS, Russia) in 2006. Currently, he is a subject content coordinator in the Computer Science department at BINUS University International Program. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, acoustic phonetics, and computational topology.