Buket D. Barkana is the Margaret F. Donovan Chair and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Akron, where she directs the Signals Research Lab. Her research focuses on medical image/ biosignal analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare, and the development of clinically interpretable decision-support systems, with applications in cancer imaging, rare diseases, and mHealth technologies. She has extensive experience leading national and international interdisciplinary collaborations with clinicians, epidemiologists, and scientists, and her work emphasizes robust, reproducible, and translational AI solutions for real-world clinical impact.