Mujdat Cetin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science, and the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Rochester. He is also serving as the Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Previously he served as a faculty member at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and as a Research Scientist at MIT. He also held visiting faculty positions at MIT, Northeastern University, and Boston University. He received his PhD from Boston University.