Gulnara Bektemyssova is a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, International Information Technology University (IITU), Almaty, Kazakhstan. She holds the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences and was awarded the title of “Best Teacher of the Year” in 2007 and 2017, as well as several research grants and scholarships. Recently, she led the research project “Smart Map for Planning and Assessing Urban Infrastructure Based on Human Activity Models” (AP19674517, 2023–2025) and participated in several national and international projects related to intelligent distributed networks, cloud-based business process transformation, and unstructured data analysis. She is the author of more than 35 scientific publications in international and national journals, including journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. She also serves as a scientific advisor and supervisor of PhD students and research projects in the fields of artificial intelligence, information security, and smart city technologies. Her teaching disciplines include Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Processing and Storage Systems, and Internet of Things Technologies. Her research interests encompass Smart Cities, Federated Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Internet of Things Security, Big Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, and Intelligent Monitoring Systems.