Altan Koçyiğit received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at METU in 1993, 1997, and 2001, respectively. He is currently serving as a Professor and Head of the Department of Information Systems at the Informatics Institute, METU, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Computer Networks, Data Science, and Software Engineering.