Cüneyt Gürcan Akçora is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the departments of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from Università degli studi dell’Insubria, Italy, and his M.S. from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, as a Fulbright Scholar.

He has worked and collaborated with Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Qatar Computing Research Institute and Huawei Research, Turkey. His primary research interests are Data Science on Complex Networks and Graph Mining, with applications in online social networks and Blockchain networks.