Firat Gonen
Chief Data Officer
Turkey
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Neuroscience, Time Series, Signal Processing, Filters
As the Chief Data Officer at Figopara, a trailblazing fintech company, I spearhead AI-based innovation to reshape financial services. My role spans crafting machine learning models for credit decision-making, developing predictive analytics for risk assessment, and building scalable data architectures that empower smarter financial solutions. I lead talented data teams in designing and implementing end-to-end data products.
A proud Kaggle Grandmaster (3X), I rank in the top 1% globally across all tiers! This achievement underscores my passion for uncovering AI's potential and collaborating with the global data science community.
In my role as a Z by HP Global Data Science Ambassador, I actively contribute to the data science ecosystem—competing on Kaggle, sharing thought leadership, and publishing academic research in AI and neural networks.
My journey has taken me through impactful roles at several international Fortune 50 companies like Allianz and Vodafone, as well as at Getir, Turkey's first decacorn!
Academically, I hold a PhD and MSc in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Houston, with several peer-reviewed publications in leading journals.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
Polymath
What can you now do on a Z that you couldn’t do before?
I can participate in computer vision competitions.
What is the next thing you want to learn or experiment with on your Z?
I would like to train huge datasets.
What’s your favorite Z feature?
My Z8 workstation!
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