Mert joins us as a visitor and will be working on a joint research project with Mohamed Zaki. Mert Gökalp is a PhD Candidate at Informatics Institute in Middle East Technical University, Turkey. His research areas include Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning. In Msc, his project was about providing a visual programming model upon big data tools to increase user adoption of big data analytics in IoT domain. Currently, he investigates adoption of big data in businesses to extend benefits that gained from big data.

Mert received his BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and Msc. degree in Information Systems. Currently, he is working as a full time research assistant in Middle East Technical University.