Description: Temirlan Nurkaidar is a first year student at Lingnan University, majoring in Business Administration with a plan to specialize in Finance and Data Science. His interests include edtech and fintech, as well as participating in various management competitions, where he has learned more about the points of contact between creativity and technology. He is  currently studying blockchain, curious where it will take him and what opportunities it will open up for the future. In addition to the technical interests, he is fond of culture and foreign languages. He speaks Kazakh, Russian, English, and Turkish (intermediate level). He is also actively studying Chinese and Arabic. His non-academic hobbies include playing the Kazakh national two-stringed instrument dombra, daily physical workouts, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and hiking.