Speakers

Key Speaker

Professor Dr. Asaf Varol - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, United States.

Prof. Dr. Asaf Varol is an internationally recognized academic in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He completed his undergraduate studies at Fırat University, earned his master’s degree at Istanbul Technical University, and received his Ph.D. from Karadeniz Technical University after conducting research as a DAAD scholar at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

He has held faculty positions at Fırat and Maltepe Universities and served as a visiting professor at institutions in Germany, the U.S., and the U.K. His research focuses on deep learning optimization and neural network performance on large datasets. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Mechatronic Engineering at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Prof. Dr. Varol has led international projects and published extensively, contributing to AI applications in healthcare, finance, image analysis, NLP, and predictive analytics. He serves on editorial boards of international journals, speaks at major conferences, and has received numerous awards for his contributions. In addition to research, he actively mentors students and supervises theses.