Gökhan Silahtaroğlu received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Turkish Military Academy in 1987, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Quantitative Methods from Istanbul University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He also holds a B.A. degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from Istanbul University (1995). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at Istanbul Medipol University, where he is the founding Head of the Department and a former Dean of the School of Business and Management Sciences. His primary research interests include data mining, text mining, big data analytics, machine learning, and systems analysis. He has published numerous scientific articles and books in the fields of data mining and machine learning. He has taught courses such as Data Mining, Database Programming, Systems Analysis and Design, and Machine Learning at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a member of IEEE and serves as an active project observer and reviewer for TÜBİTAK-funded projects. Prof. Dr. Gökhan Silahtaroğlu also conducts research in bioinformatics and participates in projects involving AI-supported intensive care units and self-learning smart clinical laboratory systems.