Cantay Caliskan is an associate professor of instruction at the Goergen Institute for Data Science and AI, University of Rochester. He studied political science, computer science, and statistics during his PhD, and received his degree from Boston University in 2018. Cantay received his BA in economics, mathematics, and international and global studies from Brandeis University, his MA in international relations from Koç University, and his MBA from the University of Rochester. His research interests include computational social science, specifically computer vision, social media analysis, and generative AI.