Professor Dr Huseyin Seker is a research-oriented and enterprise-focused academic and manager with both academic and industry experiences in data-driven digital transformation, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and emerging & disruptive technologies & systems. He completed his PhD in Biomedical Computing at Coventry University (UK) in 2005 (fully funded by Coventry University in the UK). He has published well over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and developed and deployed several data-driven AI/ML tools in academia and industry, and has been involved with a portfolio of collaborative research, enterprise and teaching & learning projects of over £25M as PI, Co-I and international researcher in collaboration with universities and companies in the UK and abroad. He is recognised among the top 1% of global researchers in Bioinformatics for productivity by ScolarGPS. He was one of the founding members of the UK’s flagship project “The Institute of Coding”, under which the activities (e.g., “Teach the Nation to Code”, “Data Science for Everyone”) he developed and organised led to the successful training program for the next generation of digital transformation leaders, and were supported, attended, and highly commented by several organisations, including Members of Parliament in the UK.
In the United Kingdom, in addition to his successful research & knowledge exchange and teaching & learning activities, he has had an extensive successful leadership career in the UK Higher Education sector, serving as the Head of Enterprise and Engagement, the Faculty Head of Research Operations & Research Students and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise at several UK-based institutes. Under his leadership, he has established several strategic partnerships with institutes and companies around the world, which have resulted in increased income and notable impacts on the economy, society, and environment.
Professor Seker has actively got involved with enterprise organisations, contributing to regional and national developments as an advisory board member. He has also served as a member of the judging panel for industry excellence awards in digitech. He is currently a member of UK-based AI Forge’s AI start-up selection committee. He has also co-founded BuboAI, an AI Startup with a focus on fintech in the UK.
Professor Seker has recently joined the University of Sharjah (UAE) working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Information Systems of the College of Computing and Informatics.

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber is professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland. His research covers areas of mathematics, statistics, optimization, optimal control, stochastics, operational research, management science, data science, machine learning, inverse problems, remote sensing, economics, finance, game theory, neuroscience, biology, medicine, psychoanalysis, development, physics, art, languages, philosophy, religions, cosmology and Christianity. He replaced professorships at Cologne University, TU Chemnitz, and was professor at IAM, METU, Ankara, has affiliations worldwide and is in many editorial boards. He serves in IFORS, as EURO Conference Advisor, IFORS Fellow, honorary chair of EURO Working Groups, in IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources and IFORS News. He recieved the EURO Distinguished Service Award in 2025.