Dr. Alper Kanak (ERARGE) received his BS from İstanbul Technical University, MS from Koc University, and PHD from Gebze Technical University all with honor degree in 2001, 2004 and 2013, respectively. He worked as a research and teaching assistant in Koc University between 2001 and 2003 and participated in a national project in the field of audio-visual speaker recognition. He then worked in TUBITAK and became a chief researcher for in 2008. He was employed in 5 projects and played a key role in establishing the Multimedia Technologies Reserarch Laboratory in TUBITAK. The great success of MULTISAUND project, which received the Turkiye’s first full score (15/15) in Framework Programmes, brough him the position of EU Projects Programme Manager of TUBITAK Research Institutes in Gebze between 2012 and 2015. In 2015, he started in ERARGE, Ergunler R&D Ltd. Co, as the R&D director and since then he has coordinated or co-coordinated 12 projects. He has taken full responsibility in full life cycle of national and international projects, i.e., Critical-Chains, Safety4Rails, Valu3s in Horizon 2020, ESCALATE, OPEVA, TEAMING in Horizon Europe, TioCPS, BIMy, C3PO in EUREKA-ITEA and 3 TUBITAK-TEYDEB national projects. He has published more than 50 papers in top journals and conferences in the fields of privacy-security-trust models, semantic Web and ontologies, cyber-physical systems, biometric security, speech and language technologies, and image/video processing.  He has also contributed to Türkiye’s ICT strategies as the national representative. Dr Kanak has lectured graduate courses on advanced topics of computer vision in Gebze Technical University, Türkiye.