Sebnem Ozdemir, Ed.D., is a global scholar, artificial intelligence researcher and data scientist and author. Ozdemir teaches in the Department of Management Information System(MIS) at Istinye University. With the machine learning based model, she built, Dr. Ozdemir was received the “Contribution to Human Development Award” by Koc University UNESCO Chair. She has many published papers, book chapters and patents related to data science and machine learning. Dr. Ozdemir’s main interest fields are artificial intelligence, data science, management information systems, decision making, mathematical modelling. She received her Ph.D. degree from Istanbul University (IU), Istanbul Turkey. She was a visiting researcher in Electronics and Computing Engineering Department (Worcester Polytechnic Institute- WPI) for her postdoc research, Worcester, MA, USA.