İpek Balıkçı Çiçek is a Research Assistant at İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, with a multidisciplinary research profile spanning biostatistics, medical informatics, artificial intelligence applications, and health sciences. She has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics including machine learning models for disease classification, neural network performance comparison, predictive modeling for dementia and cancer diagnosis, and clinical data analysis. Her work integrates advanced computational methods with health data interpretation to support evidence-based approaches in medical research and diagnostics. Balıkçı Çiçek’s scholarly contributions reflect a strong commitment to applying statistical and informatics methodologies to complex biomedical problems, enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration between data science and clinical medicine.