Prof. Dr. Seref Sagiroglu completed his undergraduate education in 1987 at Erciyes University, Department of Electronics Engineering. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Wales College of Cardiff (now Cardiff University, UK) in 1994. He continues his academic career as the full professor in Software Engineering at Gazi University Computer Engineering Department. Sagiroglu has an outstanding academic with more than 8000 citation; almost 400 articles published in SCI/SSCI indexed journals, national and international conferences, symposium and workshops.

Prof. Sagiroglu:
– is an author of and/or editor of more than 20 books, owns 4 patents and has completed national and international projects on security, big data, intelligent modeling and control, biometric, etc.
– organised more than 50 national and international events on artificial intelligence, 5G, Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Information and Cyber Security, Privacy, IPv6, etc. as a chairman or co-chairman. Some of them are as follows:

• International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (iscturkey.org)
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (ubmk.org)
• IEEE Big Data, Deep Learning and Fighting Cyber Terrorisms (ibigdelft.org)
• IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (icmla-conferences.org)
• Big Data Analytics, Security and Privacy Workshop (bigdatacenter.gazi.edu.tr)
• National Cyber Terrorism Conference (siberteror.org)
• Turkey Open Data Conference (acikveriturkiye.org)
• IEEE 5G Summit-Istanbul (ieeesummit.org)
• IPv6 Council Turkey (ipv6forumtr.org)
• National IPv6 Conference (ipv6.org)

– also has been among founding members of Information Security Association (www.bilgiguvenligi.org.tr); Member of IEEE Biometric Task Force; Turkish Science Research Foundation (www.tubav.org.tr), and The Foundation of the People Caring for the Future (www.gonder.org.tr). Sagiroglu had such duties as President and Executive Committee Members of those NGOs.

He served as the Director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer Engineering at Gazi University.

He is an editor of International Journal of Information Security Science (www.ijiss.org) and International Journal of Information Security Engineering (in Turkish) (www.dergipark.gov.tr/ubgmd) journals and CyberMag (www.cybermag.com) magazine.

– is the General Director of FutureTech (www.futuretech.com.tr) and Member of Cyber Security Group of Higher Education Council of Türkiye.

– contributed as a consultant to Havelsan; Information Technologies and Regulatory Body of Türkiye (BTK) and Personal Data Protection Regulatory Body of Türkiye (KVKK).

– now is the director of AI and Big Data Ceter of Gazi University in Ankara, Türkiye.