Journal Boards

Founding Editor

Mehmet BULUT received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in 2001.  He started his career in 1993 as a Research Assistant at Dumlupınar University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. 

In 1998 and started working as an Automation Engineer (I&C) at Eti Gümüş A.Ş. General Directorate. He took part in the SCADA+PLC conversion studies of the company's control system. He transferred to Electricity Generation Inc. in 2003., He served as Manager of Gölbaşı Technical Control and Laboratories affiliated to the Thermal Power Plants Department in 2007 and as R&D Director between 2008-2013. He served as the coordinator of the “Establishment of Maintenance Management System (BYS) in Thermal Power Plants” project carried out within the R&D Directorate. In 2013, he was appointed as the Head of the newly established Nuclear Power Plants Department  During his duty as the Head, 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 was appointed as the Advisor to the General Directorate of EÜAŞ in 2015.

He received the Industrial Energy Manager certificate at the end of the course he attended at the EIE (Electrical Affairs Surveying Administration) in 2010. 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.

He is part-time lecturer at the Electrical-Electronics Engineering and Aircraft Electrical-Electronics Departments of Atılım University.

He is the founding editor of the academic journal “Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering Research (JSTER)” published twice a year on the Dergipark platform.

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Energy Generation (Incl. Renewables, Excl. Photovoltaics), Control Theoryand Applications, Renewable Energy Resources

Advisory Board

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.

Engineering Electromagnetics, Electronic Warfare, Communications Engineering
Ayhan İstanbullu
Prof. Dr. Ayhan İSTANBULLU Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi

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. 

Digital Electronic Devices, Numerical Design
İbrahim Türkoğlu
Prof. Dr. İbrahim TÜRKOĞLU FIRAT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TEKNOLOJİ FAKÜLTESİ
Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems
Osman Taylan
Prof. Dr. Osman TAYLAN Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Computation, Energy Systems Engineering, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Quality Management
Hakan Tora
Dr. Hakan TORA ATILIM UNIVERSITY
Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Audio Processing, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Supervised Learning, Classification Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Speech Recognition
İbrahim Öz
Dr. İbrahim ÖZ Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Teknoloji Transfer Ofisi
Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Satellite Communications, Satellite-Based Positioning, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Aerospace Engineering, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing, Aerospace Engineering (Other), Production and Operations Management, Remote Sensing
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Dr. Şenol PAZAR BİRUNİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Information and Computing Sciences, Electrical Engineering

Editors / Field Editors

A. Beril Tugrul
Prof. Dr. A. Beril TUGRUL İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi - Enerji Enstitüsü
Energy Systems Engineering, Nuclear Energy Systems
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Prof. Dr. Fawaz AZİZİEH Abdullah Al Salem University (AASU)

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).

Allergy, Cellular Immunology, Immunology (Other)
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Enrique Herrera VIEDMA University of Granada - Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Decision Support and Group Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Computation, Multiple Criteria Decision Making
M. Timur Aydemir
Prof. Dr. M. Timur AYDEMİR Kadir Has Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü Web

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. 

Electrical Engineering, Electrical Machines and Drives, Power Electronics
Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Botany
Radek Matušů
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radek MATUšů Tomas Bata University in Zlín Web
Control Theoryand Applications, Control Engineering

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. 

Transportation and Traffic

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).

Automation Engineering

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.

Engineering Electromagnetics, Electronic Warfare, Communications Engineering
İbrahim Türkoğlu
Prof. Dr. İbrahim TÜRKOĞLU FIRAT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TEKNOLOJİ FAKÜLTESİ Web
Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems
Ayhan İstanbullu
Prof. Dr. Ayhan İSTANBULLU Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi Web

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. 

Digital Electronic Devices, Numerical Design
Osman Taylan
Prof. Dr. Osman TAYLAN Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University. Web
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Computation, Energy Systems Engineering, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Quality Management
Energy, Renewable Energy Resources , Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical), Mechanical Engineering (Other), Heat Transfer in Automotive
Metin Varan
Prof. Dr. Metin VARAN SAKARYA UYGULAMALI BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TEKNOLOJİ FAKÜLTESİ
Computer Software, Electrical Energy Transmission, Networks and Systems, Electrical Energy Generation (Incl. Renewables, Excl. Photovoltaics)
Hamit Adin
Prof. Dr. Hamit ADİN BATMAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Finite Element Analysis , Solid Mechanics, Material Design and Behaviors, Composite and Hybrid Materials
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Hafedh BELMABROUK Majmaah University
Classical and Physical Optics, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, Photonic and Electro-Optical Devices, Sensors and Systems (Excl. Communications)
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Cheng-wei FEİ Fudan University, Department of Aeronautic and Astronautics
Astronomical Sciences, Aerospace Engineering
Fuzzy Computation, Modelling and Simulation, Artificial Intelligence (Other), Power Plants, Renewable Energy Resources , Control Engineering
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yaser DALVEREN IZMIR BAKIRCAY UNIVERSITY
Electronic Warfare, Wireless Communication Systems and Technologies (Incl. Microwave and Millimetrewave)

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).

Numerical Analysis, Approximation Theory and Asymptotic Methods
Yusuf Bicer
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yusuf BİCER Hamad Bin Khalifa University Web
Dr. Yusuf Bicer received his PhD in the area of mechanical engineering from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. He completed his BS in Control Engineering (2012) and master’s degree in Energy Science and Technology (2014) at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Currently, Dr. Bicer is an assistant professor of sustainable development in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. Prior to joining HBKU, he was a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis focused on photoelectrochemical-based hydrogen and ammonia production options. He also worked for more than two years at Istanbul Practical Gas and Energy Technologies Research Engineering Industrial Trade Inc. on the topics of natural gas and solar energy applications. His research area focuses on renewable resources-based alternatives and clean fuel production including hydrogen and ammonia.
Ecology, Sustainability and Energy, Solar Energy Systems, Renewable Energy Resources , Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical)
Image Processing, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (Other), Classical and Physical Optics, Radiophysics, Biophysics, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Diagnosis, Optical Fibre Communication Systems and Technologies
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Umut ÖZKAYA KONYA TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence (Other), Electrical Engineering
İbrahim Öz
Dr. İbrahim ÖZ Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Teknoloji Transfer Ofisi
Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Satellite Communications, Satellite-Based Positioning, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Aerospace Engineering, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing, Aerospace Engineering (Other), Production and Operations Management, Remote Sensing
Hakan Tora
Dr. Hakan TORA ATILIM UNIVERSITY
Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Audio Processing, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Supervised Learning, Classification Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Speech Recognition
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Mahdi HOSSEINI Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Civil Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Production Technologies
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Dr. Şenol PAZAR BİRUNİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Information and Computing Sciences, Electrical Engineering
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Behrooz KESHTEGAR University of Zabol, Deprtment of CivilEngineering
Civil Engineering

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.

Software Testing, Verification and Validation, Applied Statistics, Engineering, Electronic Device and System Performance Evaluation, Testing and Simulation, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing

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