Dr. Merve Ayyüce KIZRAK was born in Istanbul, Turkiye. She started her professional career in 2009 and has more than 14 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence.

She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Haliç University, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She holds her Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Yıldız Technical University, in 2021. She holds her second Master's in Economics, Financial Technology at Bahçeşehir University. She held an AI Strategy certificate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020.

From 2009 to 2019, she was a Research Assistant with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Haliç University. Since 2019, she has been an academic at the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Department Bahçeşehir University. She has been employed as an AI Specialist at The Digital Transformation Office, The Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, since 2019. She is a member of the OECD AI Governance Working Group on behalf of the Republic of Türkiye.
Since 2018, she has taken part in volunteer work in the field of AI as a Türkiye deeplearning.ai ambassador. She participates in the Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative, which focuses on producing research resources in Turkish.

She also received the first-place award with her team, which is named HÜMA in AI in Transportation Computation at TEKNOFEST 2021. Since 2018, an Introduction to Deep Learning with Python (in Turkish) course has been published on the Udemy online education platform.

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