Aidana Nurakhmetova was a visiting student under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Viola in the Nanovisualization Research Group (NANOVis) at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Aidana is studying in her last year of Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. She's currently focusing on the Visualization of Complex Biological Structures in the Nano-scale.