AHMET E. TOPCU received a BSc degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1997; an MSc degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, in 2001; and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, in 2010. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and Technology at the American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. He is a co-founder of the Yartu and TrueFeedBack companies. He is a member of IEEE and his current research interests include distributed systems, machine learning, cloud computing, big data, IoT, and blockchain.