An Introduction to the Metaverse

Necmi Gürsakal is a statistics professor at Mudanya University, Turkey, and a former faculty member at Bursa Uludağ University’s Econometrics Department, Turkey, where he served for over 40 years. He has authored numerous Turkish books and English articles on data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and big data.

Esma Birişçi is a programmer, statistician, and operations researcher with over 15 years of experience in software development and 5 years in teaching. She completed her doctorate in Industrial Engineering with a focus on dynamic and stochastic nonlinear programming and developed a large-scale food supply chain application using Python. Currently, she is a faculty member at Bursa Uludağ University, sharing her expertise in machine learning and Python programming.

Sadullah Çelik is a mathematician, statistician, and data scientist at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey, where he has worked for over ten years. He holds a doctorate in statistics and has published extensively on big data, data science, machine learning, multivariate statistics, and network science. His doctoral thesis focused on big data applications in statistics.