Abdullah Karasan was born in Berlin, Germany. After he studied Economics and Business Administration at Gazi University-Ankara, he obtained his master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and his PhD in Financial Mathematics from Middle East Technical University (METU)-Ankara. He worked as a Treasury Controller at the Undersecretariat of Treasury of Turkey. More recently, he has started to work as a Senior Data Science consultant and instructor for companies in Turkey and the USA. Currently, he is a Data Science consultant at Datajarlabs and Data Science mentor at Thinkful.