Utku Sirin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, with a background in database systems, having earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) between 2014 and 2021. Prior to this, Utku served as a Research and Teaching Assistant at both EPFL and Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University), where Utku also obtained a Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence from 2011 to 2013.