Cüneyt Gürcan Akçora is an Associate Professor at the AI Institute of the University of Central Florida, with joint appointments in the Finance and Computer Science departments. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Insubria in Italy and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Dallas. 

His research interests encompass data science in decentralized finance, large-scale graph analysis, and complex networks, with applications spanning social, biological, IoT, and blockchain networks. Akcora is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and has authored research papers published in esteemed conferences and journals, including IEEEtran, KDD, NeurIPS, VLDB, SDM, IJCAI, ICLR, and ICDE.