Attila Gürsoy is a professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Engineering at Koç University and Dean of the College of Engineering. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1994, and later worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute (UIUC), contributing to the development of the NAMD parallel molecular dynamics program (1996). Dr. Gürsoy joined Koç University in 2002. He co-directs the COSBI LAB (Computational and Systems Biology Lab). His research is in the area of computational biology, AI in biomedicine, cancer informatics, particularly on predicting protein-protein, protein-drug interactions and their disease associations. Dr. Gürsoy received the Werner-von-Siemens Excellence Award for Science and Innovation for his work on high-performance computational biology. He is a member of the Science Academy, Türkiye.