Didar Yedilkhan
Chair of IEEE Kazakhstan Section Computational Intelligence & Robotics and Automation Joint Societies Chapter, Head of the Smart City Research Center, Astana IT University, Kazakhstan
Oversight Committee
Ievgen Pichkalov
IEEE Ukraine Section Treasurer, Corima-Ukraine Ltd., Ukraine
Andrii Biloshchytskyi
Doctor of Engineering, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation, Astana IT University
Carlo Molardi
IEEE Kazakhstan Section Past Chair, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Nurkhat Zhakiyev
Chair of IEEE Kazakhstan Computational Intelligence & Robotics and Automation Joint Societies Chapter, Astana IT University, Kazakhstan
Honorary Chairs
Muhammad Ali Imran
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
MSc and PhD from Imperial College London, Head of the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and an internationally recognized leader in energy-efficient and self-organizing communication networks. An IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he has led major UK and international 5G and 6G research programs, advising government, industry, and international bodies on future telecom policy. He has published over 600 papers, holds multiple patents, and has founded several technology start-ups. Through senior leadership roles, he shapes large-scale research initiatives, transnational education partnerships, and global collaborations across Europe, Asia, and North America. He has also served in major international conference leadership roles, including TPC Chair of IEEE WCNC 2023 in Glasgow and Executive Co-Chair for IEEE ICC 2026.
Schahram Dustdar
Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Head of the Distributed Systems Group, IEEE Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Member of the Academia Europaea
Atakan Hüseyin Varol
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Inaugural Dean, School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Conference Leadership
Conference Chair
Adnan Yazici
Professor
School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Senior Member, IEEE
Technical Program Committee Chair
Anwar Ghani
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Publication Chair
Hari Mohan Rai
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Dinesh Goyal
Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jaipur, India
Finance Chair
Askar Boranbayev
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Talgar Manglayev
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Technical Program Committee
01
Computational Intelligence
Track Chair (s): Siamac Fazli, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and Hamed Taherdoost, Chair of RSAC, University Canada West, Canada
- Roy George, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, USA.
- Murat Koyuncu, Çankaya Üniv., Ankara, Turkey.
- Ateeq Ur Rehman, Gachon University, South Korea
- Bishwajeet Pandey, GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, India
- Jin Hong Mok, Dongguk University, South Korea
- Anam Nawaz Khan, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USA.
- Ishaya Gambo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
- Yarmatov Sherzodjon Shokir ogli, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan.
- Salabat Khan, Qilu Institute of Technology, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China.
- Muhammad Asghar Khan, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
- Imran Razzak, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
- Sajjad Khan, Kocaeli University, Turkey, and Istanbul Technological University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Mostafa Azimi Nasab, Azad Islamic University, Iran
02
Information forensics, cryptography, and cybersecurity
Track Chair (s): Ali Kashif Bashir, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Haris Pervaiz, University of Essex, UK
- Humaira Ashraf, Taylor's University, Malaysia
- Zahid Akhtar, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Axel Schneider, Hochschule Bielefeld, Interaktion, Bielefeld, Germany
- Do Heyun Kim, Jeju National University, South Korea.
- Yilei Wang, Qufu Normal University, China.
- Syed Muhammad Saqlain, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Mustafa Sert, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
- Yousaf bin Zakaria, Victorian Institute of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Xiong Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
- Ghani Ur Rahman, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak, Pakistan.
- Mohammed H. M. Alsharif, Sejong University, South Korea
- Kaustubh Kumar Shukla, Dronacharya Group of Institutions, India
- Haseeb Hassan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
- Khalid Mehmood, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
- Moneeb Gohar, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Faiz Ali Shah, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Ashok Yadav, GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, India
- Arif Ur Rahman, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
03
Communication & Network Science
Track Chair: Zohaib Latif, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Hina Tabassum (Senior Member, IEEE), Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada
- Muazzam Ali Khan, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Roland Goecke, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
- Rashidov Akbar Ergash Oghli, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
- Kiramat Rahman, University of Swat, K.P.K, Pakistan
- Tuan-Vinh Le, Fu Jen Catholic University, 242062, Taiwan.
- Qazi Waqas Khan, Jeju National University, South Korea
- Selcuk Cankurt, Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland
- Ata Ullah, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Ikram Asghar, Teesside University, UK.
- Nurgul Nalgozhina, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Aizhan Kassymova, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Ahmet Coşar, Middle East Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan
- Imran Khan, Khanpure Institute of Technology, Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan.
- Lilia Tightiz, Sejong University, South Korea.
- Subhanulla, FAST, NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Mubashar Iqbal, University of Tartu, Estonia
04
Internet of Things, Consumer technologies
Track Chair: Dimitrios Zorbas, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Hadis Karimipour, University of Calgary, Canada.
- Dharmendra Sharma, University of Canberra (UC), Australia
- Syed Atif Moqurrab, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
- T.Muthumanickam, Vinayaka Mission's University, Salem, India
- Haseeb Ahmad, University of Malakand, K.P.K, Pakistan.
- Afaq Muhammad, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA.
- Pallavi Verma, Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, India
- Muhammad Alam, London South Bank University, London, UK
- Rashid Ahmad, Sohar University, Oman.
- Syed Muhammad Shabiul Hassan, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
- Syed Muhammad Ammar Hussain Bukhari, De Montfort University, Kazakhstan.
- Atif Rizwan, Umeå University, Sweden.
- Saeedullah Jan, Higher Education Department, K.P.K, Pakistan.
- Abdulrahman Alzahrani, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, KSA.
- Taj Rahman, HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan.
05
Cloud, Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Systems
Track Chair: Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, UK, and Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Birmingham City University, UK
- Hyunsung Kim, Kyungil University, Republic of Korea
- Oluwatobi Noah Akande, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
- Tansel Dökeroğlu, TED University, Ankara, Turkey
- Saurabh Agarwal, Yeungnam University, South Korea.
- Afzal Badshah, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan.
- Dongming Wei, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Saule Amanzholova, Astana IT University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- MD Abdus Salam Siddique, Arkansas Tech University, USA
- Saba Mahmood, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Christo Ananth, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
- Anurag Trivedi, Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur, India
- Haider Abbas, Sejong University, South Korea
- M. Ajmal Khan, Ohio Northern University, USA
- Rashid Ali, KIET Group of Institutions, India
- Anastasija Nikiforova, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Morteza Azimi Nasab, Azad Islamic University, Iran
06
Engineering Management and Digital Transformation
Track Chair: Shumaila Yousafzai, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and Ashok Kumar Das, International Institute of Information Technology, India
- Shaila Shukla, Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur, India
- Mohammad Zand, Azad Islamic University, Iran
- Martinez Ferguson, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USA
- Jose Tupayachi, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USA
- Vijayakumar Pandi, University College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India
- Khalid Yahya, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Bagdat Yagaliyeva, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Ainur Zhumadillayeva, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Khuramov Latif Yоkubboevich, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
- Neha Agrawal, Yeungnam University, South Korea.
- Michael Lewis, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Yeskendirova Damelya Maksutovna, International IT University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Local Organizing Committee
Publication Committee
- Jose BerengueresNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Talgat ManglayevNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Organizing Committee
- Shinnazar SeytnazarovNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Michael LewisNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Irina DolzhikovaNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Publicity Committee
- Sain SaginbekovNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Umair Arif Syed MuhammadNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Event Management Committee
- Yesdaulet IzenovNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Adai ShomanovNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Registration & HelpDesk Committee
- Marat IsteleyevNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Iliyas TursynbekNazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan