Biography: Suat Özdemir has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey since May 2020.  He is the head of Artificial Intelligence Engineering division of the department. Prior to this, he served at Gazi University’s Computer Engineering Department from 2007 to 2020. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Syracuse University (2001) and a PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University (2006). With a professional career that bridges academia and industry, Prof. Özdemir has maintained strong collaborations with the industrial sector for over a decade. From 2010 to 2014, he contributed as a senior researcher at TÜBİTAK, Turkey’s leading research institution, working on nationally significant projects. He is an active member of the IEEE and contributes to the global research community by serving as an editor, technical program committee member, and reviewer for numerous high-impact IEEE and ACM journals and conferences. His work spans areas of computer engineering with a particular emphasis on network security, IoT, and emerging computing paradigms.