Batu Gundogdu, PhD

Batu Gundogdu holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and brings over 15 years of experience developing deep-learning models across the fields of speech, language, and medical imaging. Most recently, he served as Research Faculty in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago for four years, where he led AI efforts at the MRI Research Center. Dr. Gundogdu is currently leading AI engineering at Eva, a startup building next-generation AI compute platforms. In the UChicago MS in Applied Data Science program, he shares his practical insights and experiences with students on being an AI engineer and scientist across diverse venues—including research institutions (UChicago MRI Research Center), corporate companies (Analog Devices – ADI), government (Navy and NATO), and startups (Eva). He teaches courses on Bayesian Machine Learning for Generative AI and Advanced Linear Algebra for Machine Learning.