He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Nevada, Reno. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia. He received a B.E. in Computer Engineering in Turkey. Before joining UWF, he worked as a Term Assistant Professor at University of Alaska, Anchorage. Dr. Bilal Gonen’s teaching and research interests include Network Science, Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web, Computer Networks, Bioinformatics, programming in Java, C, C++, C#, Python.