Bakhadyr M. Khoussainov (Russian: Бахадыр Хусаинов[1]) is a computer scientist and mathematician, who was born and educated in the Soviet Union, works in the fields of mathematical logic, computability theory, computable model theory and theoretical computer science.[2] With Anil Nerode, he is the co-founder of the theory of automatic structures,[3] which is an extension of the theory of automatic groups.