Assist. Prof. Burak Şişman is a lecturer at Istanbul University, Hasan Ali Yücel Education Faculty. He is also the Vice Director of Computer Science Application and Research Center of Istanbul University. He completed his MSc and PhD education at Informatics Department in Istanbul University, Institute of Science. He has two undergraduate degrees. He completed his first undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Dumlupinar University and the other is in Business Administration at Anadolu University. He conducted many projects such as Using Robots in Education of Children with Autism, Using Robots in Foreign Language Education and Robotics Education for Children. He has also worked as a researcher on several projects, one of which is the European Union project.

His interest areas are robotics, 3d virtual environments, image and speech processing. His lately studies are focused on using robots in education and human robot interaction.