Prof. Dr. Celal Öztürk is a faculty member at the Faculty of Engineering, Erciyes University, Turkey. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Erciyes University, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, USA, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at King's College London, UK. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at Erciyes University from 2011 to 2023, and has been serving as Professor and Chair of the Software Engineering Department since 2023. He also serves as Director of the Computer Sciences Application and Research Center and as a board member of Erciyes Technopark. His primary research interests include artificial bee colony algorithms and programming, deep learning, wireless sensor networks and security, metaheuristic optimization, and image processing. In 2021, he was honored to be included in Stanford University's list of the World's Most Influential Scientists. He has authored numerous articles in internationally indexed journals including SCI-E, SSCI, and Scopus, along with several conference papers and book chapters.