Dr. Polat Goktas graduated as a valedictorian with a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ankara University, Turkey, before obtaining both his MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. His Ph.D. research focused on a remarkable mix of image acquisition, image processing, data analysis, and life sciences. His research aimed to identify cellular information without staining for label-free, high-throughput classification and the detection of cellular information at the single-cell level, especially for vitro diagnostic research. To further solidify his interdisciplinary expertise in image acquisition and analysis, he conducted research activities in the Bio-Optics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, as a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship and as a visiting Ph.D. researcher in the School of Medicine, Koc University, Turkey. Currently, he is a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the UCD School of Computer Science and Ireland's Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Dublin, Ireland, where he focuses on developing deep learning models to solve biological problems. He has received several prestigious awards and grants, including the Fulbright Doctoral Research fellowship, the IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant, the 2019 Leopold B. Felsen Excellence in Electromagnetics award, the 2020 Marie-Curie Career-FIT PLUS fellowship, and the 2021 METU Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist of the Year Award.