Deniz Yuret received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. at MIT working at the AI Lab on machine learning and natural language processing during 1988-1999. He co-founded Inquira, Inc., a startup commercializing question answering technology which was later acquired by Oracle. He is currently an associate professor of Computer Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul and founder of its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In his spare time he develops Knet.jl, a Julia deep learning framework that uses dynamic computational graphs generated at runtime for automatic differentiation of (almost) any Julia code.