Mehmet BULUT received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in 2001.  

He attended the “Leadership and Management for Nuclear Power Programmes” training course organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) within the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the USA in 2013

He received EU Basic Training and EU Specialization Training from Ankara University, European Communities Research and Application Center (ATAUM) in 2005 and 2006.  

He served as a Member of the Advisory Board (DK) within the TUBITAK-TEYDEB Electrical-Electronic Technologies Group (ELOTEG) between 2019-2022.

I obtained my B.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University. I then went on to obtain my M.Sc in Medical Microbiology (Molecular Biology) at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University. I pursued doctoral studies by conducting research in the field of immunology of recurrent miscarriage and received my Ph.D. Biological Sciences (Immunology) from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

My teaching and research experience started at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University from 1994-2010. I joined Gulf University for Science and Technology in the Fall semester of 2010-2024. Currently working as a Full Professor of Biology at Abdullah Al Salem University, Kuwait.

My research area is in Immunology with a special focus on the role of Cytokines in Health and Disease. My main interest is in the roles of cytokines in different complications of pregnancy such as Recurrent Spontaneous Miscarriage, Preeclampsia, Intra-uterine Growth Restriction, and Preterm delivery. I am also involved in immunological studies of other conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Dengue Fever, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hemoglobinopathies, and Cytomegalovirus infections. My current research activity is in the cytokine balance in Asthma and Bone Diseases (Osteoimmunology).

He was born in Trabzon in 1962. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering in 1983 and 1985, respectively, from Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, where he also worked as a research assistant. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, in 1995 on scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education. Between 1995 and 2020, he worked at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, he is at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2001 and spent a year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a Visiting Researcher. He has served as an associate editor in various scientific journals. His research interests include power electronics, electrical machines, and renewable energy applications. 

Dr. Uneb Gazder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Bahrain. He finished his BSc (Civil) and ME (Engineering Management) from NED University of Engineering and Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He completed his PhD from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2014. He has a specialization in Transportation Planning. His areas of interest include traffic prediction, modeling traveler behavior, traffic safety and pavement materials. 

Galip Cansever received his Bachelor's degree in 1976, his Master's degree in 1978, and his Doctorate in 1984 from Yıldız Technical University. He became a Lecturer in 1985, an Assistant Professor in 1987, an Associate Professor in 1990, and a Professor in 1996. He served as the Deputy Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1987 to 1992, as the Deputy Dean from 1992 to 1995, as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Yıldız Technical University from 2005 to 2011, and as the Vice Rector of Yıldız Technical University from 2016 to 2019. For his postdoctoral studies, he went to Twente Technical University in the Netherlands in 1986, and as a Visiting Professor to the University of Salford in England from 1999 to 2000, the University of Limerick in 2013, and the University of Düsseldorf in 2014.

Galip Cansever established the Control and Automation Engineering Department at Yıldız Technical University in 2009 during his time as Dean and has continued to work there. He also established the following laboratories within this department, without any government funding: PHOENIX CONTACT AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY (June 2005), OMRON GENERAL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY (2006), OMRON ADVANCED AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY (2012), YORUM AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES UNITRONICS LABORATORY (April 2007), SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC NETWORKING AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY (June 2008), and HIMA SAFETY PLC AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY (May 2011). Galip Cansever has numerous national and international publications, as well as over 100 national and international conference presentations. He has supervised nearly 100 Master's theses and approximately 30 Doctoral theses, and has been involved in around 25 projects. For approximately 20 years, he has served on the boards of directors of TOK and ELECO conferences, and has also served on the boards of directors of many other conferences. Galip Cansever has served as a reviewer for approximately 103 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) papers and as an observer for nearly 150 papers. He also works as a consultant in factories, has served on nearly 50 professorship juries, nearly 100 associate professorship juries, nearly 75 associate professorship oral exam juries, and nearly 100 doctoral exam juries. He has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreements with 11 international universities, has been a guest speaker at approximately 25 national and international events, and is a board member of EDUNET and EWA (International Education Network and International Education World Association). After retiring from Yıldız Technical University in 2019 at the age of 67, he started working at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Altınbaş University, Istanbul in January 2020. He has been serving as the dean of this faculty for approximately 4 years (2022-2026).

Ali Kara received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2002. He was a research assistant/scholar at Polytechnic University (New York University, Brooklyn, NY) from 1999 to 2000, in an industry-sponsored project (Symbol Technologies/Motorola).

In 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Atılım University, where he held various positions from lecturer to full professor. He was the Director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Atılım University until 2021.

He was also a consultant and chief researcher (part-time) at TUBITAK BILGEM from 2006 to 2012, where he contributed to some nationwide defense and security projects. He has been actively involved in many state and industry-funded projects since then.

Dr. Kara has published extensively in journals, mostly with his graduate students, and has presented his research findings at relevant conferences. He has also led many research projects in the areas of electromagnetics, wireless communications, radar and electronic warfare systems, and engineering education.

In one project, he led a team of researchers from universities across Europe to develop a Virtual and Remote Laboratory (VRL) platform (ERRL-European Remote Radio Laboratory). This platform was unique at the time and was fully funded by the European Commission. Dr. Kara has five patents to his name.

His research interests lie in a broad range of areas, including wireless communications, electromagnetics, radar and electronic warfare, data-driven techniques in engineering, and engineering education. In recent years, he has focused on the use of artificial intelligence (ML/DL) to solve problems in these areas.

See Ali Kara's Google profile for research publications.

See Ali Kara's Youtube Channel for some of the course recordings.

Dr. Ayhan Istanbullu received his undergraduate degree (1993) and his Ph.D from the Electronic and Computer Science Education Department of the Gazi University (2003), Turkey. He worked as an instructor at the University of Mugla,  in the Department of Electronic and Computer Science Education between 2001 and 2006.. He currently works as an Professor in Computer Engineering Department of Balikesir University, Turkey.  ,He has participated in European Remote Radio Laboratory project (EU LdV) and he has acted as project partner (2006-2008). His current research interests include the investigation of information technologies. 

Associate Prof. Dr. Hijaz Ahmad completed his MS in computational mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus. In 2022, he completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Department of Basic Sciences and Islamiat, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan and then he started his Post-doc from Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. His research work is focused on the development and advancement of numerical techniques for finding the numerical solution of mathematical models in the form of partial differential equations and fractional partial differential equations arising in finance, computational biology, and different disciplines of engineering. He has introduced modified variational iteration algorithm-I and modified variational iteration algorithm-II for the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations and fractional iteration algorithm-I for finding the numerical solution of nonlinear non-integer order partial differential equations. The scope of his research is quite broad, covering numerical analysis, fractional calculus, mathematical biology and mathematical physics. Dr Ahmad is included in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2022, 2023 and 2024 (by Stanford University and Elsevier).

Dr. Ongun Yucesan is currently with the Atılım University Civil Aviation School Avionics department as department chair. He is the graduate of Baskent University in 2000 with BSc EE degree, as well as, Bilkent University MSc EE degree in 2003. He took PhD level courses at University of Missouri Kansas City during years 2003 and 2004. Later on, received PhD degree at the Atılım University MODES program in year 2021. He had time in hands on experience for telecommunication and defense industries arena in the mean time.