Refik Samet received the combined B.S./M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from Kyiv polytechnic institute (since 2016 – National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”) in 1983. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He has been working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Ankara University since 2004. His research interests lie in the areas of image processing, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning. He is also interested in cyber security, computer forensics and mobile operating systems.

 https://avesis.ankara.edu.tr/samet

Emrah Hancer received the BS degree in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from Cankaya University, Turkey, in 2009, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from Erciyes University, Turkey, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. During his PhD, he worked as a visiting researcher at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand between 2014 and 2015 for 1 year. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. Between 2020-2022, he was selected among the top 2% of the world according to the article titled “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” published in PLOS Biology by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K.W. Boyack, and J. Baas from Stanford University. His research interests include image analysis, clustering, dimensionality reduction, evolutionary computation and IoT authentication. Dr. Hancer has been serving as a reviewer for several international journals and conferences in the field, such as Applied Soft Computing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE CEC and IEEE SSCI.

https://abs.mehmetakif.edu.tr/ehancer/PersonelDetay

Zeynep Yıldırım, received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer engineering from Ankara University, Turkey, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Between 2013-2022, she has been a Research Assistant with the Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara University. Her research interests include computer vision and machine learning.

Nooshin Nemati B.S. graduated from the computer engineering department of Qazvin Azad University (Iran) in 2011. Received a master’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, in 2019. Has been doing Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Ankara University since 2020. Research interests are in image processing, machine learning, and deep learning.