Cagatay Turkay is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Data Science at the Department of Computer Science at City, University of London and a member of giCentre — a world-leading research centre in visualisation research. He is also the director for the MSci in Data Science programme at City.

He has a PhD in Visualisation from University of Bergen, Norway, with a background in computer science and his research mainly focuses on designing visualisations, interactions and computational methods to enable effective combinations of human and machine capabilities to facilitate data-intensive problem solving.

He serves as a committee member for several conferences including InfoVis and EuroVis, and part of the organising committee for IEEE VIS on 2017 and 2018. He is currently a guest editor for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and an editorial board member for the Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction journal.