Cagatay Catal

Cagatay Catal is a Lecturer at the Information Technology Department of Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Previously, he served as Associate Professor at Istanbul Kultur University's Department of Computer Engineering (2012–2017), including three years as Department Head (2014–2017). Prior to academia, he worked for 8 years at TÜBİTAK's Information Technologies Institute as Senior Researcher & Project Manager (2002–2012), contributing to large-scale software systems. He holds a BSc/MSc from Istanbul Technical University and a PhD from Yildiz Technical University, all in Computer Engineering.

His research focuses on machine learning applications in software engineering, software quality assurance, testing methodologies, and architecture design. He actively reviews for funding bodies like the European Union's EUROSTARS program, Canada's Research Council, and Turkey's Research Council.

Catal leads projects such as INREF Smart-In-Ag (SMART farming in Indonesia), VIRAL (ICT in agricultural education), and malware detection in software systems. His work bridges academic research with practical software development challenges in diverse sectors like healthcare and education.