Dr. Hande Alemdar is Assistant Prof. at Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BS, MS and PhD degrees from Bogazici University, Department of Computer Engineering in 2004, 2009 and 2015, respectively. She is the recipient of the Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP) Best Thesis Award 2015. She was a post-doctoral researcher at Grenoble Informatics Institute (LIG), France. Her research interests include pervasive computing, machine learning, big-data analytics and deep learning.