B.S. degree in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering from Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye, in 1993 and M.B.A. degree in Information Systems from City University, Seattle, USA, in 2004. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at Yeditepe University, İstanbul, Türkiye. He worked for various companies in the technology and software sector in Europe and Türkiye between 1998 and 2018, including two software startups. He served as Deputy Managing Director at Turkcell Digital Business Services between 2018 and 2024 and built and managed Cloud, IoT & Big Data Business Units. He teaches Introduction to Data Science & Big Data Analytics and Software Entrepreneurship courses at Yeditepe Computer Engineering Department.

Dr. Sezer Goren received her BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkiye, and a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She had full-time industry work in Silicon Valley between 1998 and 2005, mostly as a senior verification engineer, and employers include SynTest, Cadence, Apple, Switch-On Networks (PMC-Sierra), and Aarohi Communications (Emulex). Later, she made a transition into academia and worked as an assistant professor at Bahcesehir University between 2005 and 2010 and then as a full professor in the Computer Engineering Department of Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkiye, between 2010 and 2023. She served as the department chair between 2016 and 2020 and the IEEE Computer Society Turkiye Chapter chair between 2021 and 2023. She worked as the primary investigator of 3 funded projects, supervised 14 MS and 4 PhD theses to completion, and published a total of 85 journal and conference publications. Her research interests include design automation of digital systems, design verification and test, reconfigurable computing, embedded system design, hardware security, computer arithmetic, and deep learning.

B.Sc. degree in (Hons): Info. Systems Eng., Uni. of Manchester, M.S. degree in Computer Science, Brunel University, UK, And Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Brunel University, He is an assistant professor in the Computer Engineering Department, Yeditepe University, with a special interest in mobile computing, context-aware systems, healthcare monitoring systems and e-learning technologies. Tacha, prior to joining Yeditepe University, worked as a consultant at HP (UK) and, prior to that, as a research fellow at the School of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, West London, UK. Tacha Serif's research interests include pervasive computing, human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile infotainment, usability engineering, healthcare monitoring systems, wireless networks, location-based and context-aware systems, and e-learning technologies and infrastructures.