Mustafa is a PhD student at CEDAR, under the supervision of Emek Demir and Sadık Esener. Before joining CEDAR, he worked at Synnada as a founding engineer for 2 years, and prior to that, he worked at ASELSAN as a software engineer for 3 years. Mustafa received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Turkey in 2019. He is a member of the PMC (Project Management Committee) for the Apache DataFusion project and a Committer for the Apache Arrow project. His research focuses on early cancer detection using computational techniques. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and watching movies.