Prof. Dr. Derya BIRANT received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, in 2000, 2002, and 2006, respectively. Since 2023, she has been working as a Professor at the same place. She has been involved in more than 20 long-term interdisciplinary R&D projects on data science. She has published over 150 research papers in journals, conferences, and books. Her research interests include machine learning and data mining.