ÖZER UYGUN received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Sakarya University, Turkey, in 1999, 2002, and 2008, respectively. He started his academic position at Marmara University and worked as a Lecturer from 2000 to 2003. Then, he was a Research Assistant at Sakarya University from 2003 to 2008, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was a Researcher in the EU FP6 Network of Excellence (I*PROMS: 2004-2009) and FP6 STREP Project (IWARD: 2007-2009). He successfully completed the EFQM Assessor Training in Brussels in 2015. His research interests are Operations Research, Optimization, Decision Making, Multi-criteria Decision Making, and Artificial Intelligence.

Salih Tutun, Doctor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering, research focuses on how businesses manage social interactions and he is an expert in deep representation learning, psycho-social risk management, and computational social science for understanding human behaviors and complex systems. My teaching, research, and work experience in academia and industry have given me numerous opportunities to utilize my skills to generate value and make an impact. Now that I am an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and I am the co-founder of DNB Analytics. For more detail about my research, it (the NEPAR framework) is ranked by National News Hits at Binghamton University (Circulation: Over 9 million). It is mentioned by more than 40 news in the world and is published as the front cover at "Industrial and Systems Engineering at work" magazine. Finally, I am studying Deep Learning and NEPAR Learning to develop new models and tools.