Murat Aytekin earned a Ph.D in neuroscience and cognitive sciences while researching started his career as an electronics and telecommunication engineer with an interest in machine learning. He fell in love with biology, as an inspiration for engineering, and earned a while researching active perception. As a researcher, he studied bat echolocation, as well as human visual perception. Murat enjoyed designing and building experimental interfaces for sound and motion tracking, while pursuing a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence and its implications. His newest venture involves working as a data scientist leading teams of various sizes on multiple data science projects. Murat is also a certified Agile Scrum Master, trained community mediator and a musician playing baglama and kemane, two Turkish folk instruments.