Erkan graduated from Firat University, Technical Education Faculty, Elazig, Turkey in 2000; received the Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Trakya University, Turkey in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in 2013 in the same department. He authored 15 publication such as articles, book chapter and conference proceedings in Turkish and English. He has taken many positions as a manager and referee in research projects in the field of artificial intelligence.
Erkan started his academic career at Trakya University in 2001. With a focus on studies on artificial intelligence and network security. He conducted a project on the application of high performance computing to artificial intelligence, time series, machine learning and data mining. Erkan has been a speaker at many scientific meetings on artificial intelligence. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such us data mining, machine learning, time series, big data, and artificial intelligence techniques. Erkan is currently a full time academic member of Tekirdağ Namik Kemal University, Corlu Faculty of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department (2013-present).
Professional interests mainly include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Big Data, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, Time Series and Network Security.