Mustafa Murat ARAT is an Assistant Professor of Department of Information Systems, Supply Chain Management & Decision Support at NEOMA Business School. As a bilingual statistician/data scientist who designs, develops, and implements advanced predictive methods supported by machine learning and deep learning algorithms, with the goal of generating actionable predictions from structured and unstructured largescale data to support business decision-making needs, his research interest currently resides in modeling big data, MLOps, and AI. He is a member of the editorial board of the SCI-indexed Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics. In addition to his academic work, he has delivered numerous trainings and workshops for both public and private institutions, contributed as an expert to two European Union–funded projects, and published in the Journal of Marketing.