Veysi İŞLER is an accomplished full professor in the field of computer science, as well as an enterprising investor and entrepreneur with expertise in gaming and simulators. His expertise covers a wide range of areas related to virtual worlds. He has both academic and industrial experience in the design and the development of virtual world applications such as simulation games, simulators, and serious games. He has over 200 scientific articles, papers, book chapters and presentations on computer graphics, modeling and simulation, game technologies and artificial intelligence. Veysi İŞLER is Co-Founder and Chair of Simsoft Technologies, a simulator and game technologies company with more than 17 years of experience in developing medium and large scale simulators and serious games. He is strategic investor of some simulation and gaming startups including Simovate, Simofun and The Game Circle Incubation and Acceleration Center. Dr. İŞLER is Gaming Committe Lead at DEİK Digital Technologies Business Council of Türkiye. He is founding member of TOGED: Game Developers Association of Türkiye Veysi İŞLER was retired from one the top universities of Turkey, METU where he was a full professor of computer graphics and a faculty member of department of computer engineering until 2017. He was the director of the Modeling and Simulation Research and Development Center at the same university between 2006-2015. He was also the head of the Modeling and Simulation Department of the Informatics Institute with the Game Technologies master’s program between 2005-2012. He served NATO Modeling and Simulation Group between 2006-2015. In 1998, he founded and managed IDEA, Turkey's first Internet-Based Training Program. Veysi İşler started the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Group at Tübitak, The Scientific And Technological Research Council of Türkiye in 1996. He has visited the Hong Kong Polytechnic, University of Central Florida Synthetic Reality Lab, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Game Lab for a limited period of time to do research. In addition to its engineering and academic support for the projects carried out within Simsoft and the other startups he has been investing in, Dr. İşler continues to transfer its industry experience and knowledge to its students at the university.