Shafagat Mahmudova, PhD degree in Technical sciences, Institute of Information Technology of ANAS – Azerbaijan. Currently she conducts research on the "Development of methods and algorithms for the racial identity of human face on the basis of photo-portraits". She teaches at the ―Training Innovation Center‖ of ANAS Institute of Information Technologies. She was elected deputy editor-in-chief of ―International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing (IJIIP)‖, and a member of editorship of ―Gconference.NET‖ portal. She was elected a reviewer of International Journal of Automation and Power Engineering. The journal is published by the Science and Engineering Publishing Company (Riley, Indiana, USA). She was elected a reviewer of ―Journal of Control Engineering and Technology (JCET)‖ and ―British Journal of Applied Science & Technology‖. Was elected as a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)