Gulshat Amirkhanova  holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, received in 2017. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Department Of Artificial intelligence and Big Data at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She is currently working on the development of a digital twin of a food processing enterprise using artificial intelligence and IIoT technologies. Her research interests include optimum control theory, mathematical modeling, Big Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She can be contacted by email: Gulshat.Amirkhanova@kaznu.edu.kz, gulshat.aa@gmail.com