Merve Ayyüce Kızrak

She completed her undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Haliç University in 2009. In 2011 she completed her master’s degree in the Electronics and Communication Engineering program of Haliç University’s Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, also taking courses at the ITU Informatics Institute. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Program of Yıldız Technical University’s Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. Throughout her career she has taken the initiative and volunteered to accelerate artificial intelligence work in Turkey. From her undergraduate graduation until February 2019 she taught various courses in the Electronics and Communication and Electrical-Electronics Engineering Departments at Haliç University, and since February 2019 she has continued her academic career in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Bahçeşehir University. She carries out academic and product development work with various working groups. She is part of the “ideaport artificial intelligence working” group within the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey. As Deep Learning Türkiye, in its first year, she served as “Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of DeepCon’18, the Big Artificial Intelligence Conference,” held at BTK in Ankara on 5–6 October 2018 in cooperation with the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) and with the support of Havelsan. She also continues teaching deep learning through her Udemy course “Deep Learning AZ | Python ile Derin Öğrenme” (Deep Learning with Python).