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POLAT GOKTAS

Sabancı Üniversitesi, University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics & CeADAR, Harvard University, Bilkent University, Ankara University

Research areas: Medicine · Health Informatics · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare · Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7183-6890
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Leadership Roles:
- Chair, IEEE Young Professionals Innovation Subcommittee (Nov 2024 - Present)
- Vice Chair, European Union-Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Sustainability Working Group (August 2024 - Present)
- Chair, MCAA Turkey Chapter & Secretary of the Board, MCAA Ireland Chapter (Feb 2026 - Present)
- 2026 Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE Impact Challenge Development and Oversight (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Chair, IEEE AgeTech Innovation Challenge Committee (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Member of the Organizing Committee, the 2026 IEEE Tech Summit on Ethical AI (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Community Lead - Regional Engagement, IEEE Entrepreneurship (Jan 2026 - Present)
- IEEE Young Professionals Liaison, IEEE Entrepreneurship (Jan 2025 - Present)
- IEEE Young Professionals Liaison, IEEE Future Directions (Jan 2025 - Present)
- Member of the Organizing Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (IEEE ISEMV), 2025–2026
- Chair, IEEE Metaverse Grand Challenge for Simulation-Based Learning, 2025-2026 (Jan 2025 – Present)
- Sub-Lead Chair, Professional Development Portfolio, IEEE EMBS Summer/Winter Camp (2024–2025)

Editorial and Review Contributions:
- Area Editor, ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS) (AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science for Sustainable Societies; also serving the Development, Economics and Policy track)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Climate Magazine, inaugural issue launching in September 2026
- Associate Editor, Fulbright Chronicles
- Academic Editor, PLOS ONE
- Managing Editor, MCAA Newsletter
- Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports
- Editorial Board Member, Health Policy and Technology
- Editorial Board Member, AI, Computer Science, and Robotics Technology
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Health Organization and Management
- Editorial Board Member, BMC Health Services Research
- Editorial Review Board Member, Sustainable Futures
- Youth Editorial Board Member, Regenerative Medicine Reports

Topic Coordinator and Guest Editor:
- Topical Advisory Panel Member, MDPI Electronics
- Article Collection for Applied Artificial Intelligence on "Human Computer Interaction and Applied Artificial Intelligence: Interfaces, Ethics, and Emerging Applications"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for MDPI Electronics on "Human–Computer Interaction and Its Applications in Healthcare"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for Cytometry Part A on "Latest Progress in Single-Cell Imaging Technologies"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for BMC Health Services Research on "Multifaceted Implications of AI Use in Patient Care"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for MDPI Healthcare on “Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence for Ophthalmology: Advances, Challenges and Future Directions”
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for Fulbright Chronicles on "The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Social Science Perspectives in Education"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for Frontiers in Allergy on "Artificial Intelligence in Allergology: Screening, Diagnosis, and Personalized Management"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for MCAA Newsletter on "Integrating Sustainability in Research and Innovation: Strategies, Challenges, and Case Studies"
- Guest Editor, Special Issue for MCAA Newsletter on "Charting the Course to a Sustainable Work Culture in Research"

Conference Committees & Technical Program Committee (TPC) Memberships:
- Area Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2026).
- Organization Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (IEEE ISEMV 2025 & 2026).
- Organizer, "Governance-Aware and Sustainable Computational Intelligence for Medicine and Digital Health" special session for 2026 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2026).
- Competition Chair, IEEE Technology Summit 2025.
- TPC Member, International Workshop on Energy-Aware Mobile IoT (Eware IoT) for Eware-IoT 2024.
- TPC Member, Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications workshop session for IEEE MECOM 2024.
- Organizer, "Sustainable AI for 6G Communications" special session for IEEE ICNSC 2024.
- TPC Member, 35th Irish Signals & Systems Conference (ISSC 2024), Belfast, UK, and 34th ISSC 2023, Dublin, Ireland.

Employment

  • Sabancı University Assistant Professor
    2025 - Present
  • University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics & CeADAR Senior Research Scientist
    2024 - 2025
  • University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics Marie-Curie Research Fellow
    2020 - 2024
  • Koç University Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
    2018 - 2019
  • Wellman Center for Photomedicine Fulbright Ph.D. Research Fellow
    2017 - 2018
  • Bilkent University Research Engineer
    2015 - 2017
  • Bilkent University Research & Teaching Assistant
    2012 - 2020

Education

Projects & Funding

  • DeepStain - Marie-Curie Career-FIT PLUS Grant Enterprise Ireland
    2021 - 2024
  • Young Scientist Award Middle East Technical University
    2020 - 2020
  • Fulbright Fellowship Fulbright Association
    2017 - 2018
  • IEEE APS Doctoral Research Grant IEEE Foundation
    2017 - 2018
  • Young Scientist Award - 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
    2016 - 2016

Publications (43)