Dr. Firat Gonen is the Head of Data Science and Analytics at Getir. Gonen leads the data science and data analysis teams delivering innovative and cutting edge Machine Learning projects. Before Getir, Dr. Gonen was managing Vodafone Turkey’s AI teams. Prior to Vodafone Turkey, he was the Principal Data Scientist at Dogus Group (one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates). Gonen holds extensive educational qualifications including a PhD degree in NeuroScience and Neural Networks from University of Houston and is an expert in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Visual Attention, Decision-Making & Genetic Algorithms with over more than 10 years in the field. He has authored several peer-review journal papers. He’s also a Kaggle Triple GrandMaster and has more than 10 international data competition medals. He was also selected as the 2020 HP / NVIDIA Global Data Science Ambassador.