Sebnem Ozdemir received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics (Yıldız Technical University), as well as the M.A. in Mathematics Education and M.Sc. in Informatics (İstanbul University). She received her Ph.D. degree from İstanbul University (IU), İstanbul Turkey. In 2018, She was a visiting researcher in Electronics and Computing Engineering Department (Worcester Polytechnic Institute- WPI) for her postdoc research, Worcester, MA, USA. She currently hold the position of research collaborator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). She also works as Assistant Professor at Department of Management Information System, Istinye University, İstanbul, Turkey. With the machine learning based model, she built, Mrs. Ozdemir was received the “Contribution to Human Development Award” by Koc University UNESCO Chair. Earlier this year (2018), she began to integrate a new and closely-related research stream with her students, which is called “Deep Projects,” that involves deep learning algorithms and methodologies. She has many published papers, book chapters and patents related to data science and machine learning. Ozdemir’s main interest fields are artificial intelligence, data science, management information systems, decision making, mathematical modelling.