B.S.: ITU Electrical and Electronics Faculty, Electrical Engineering, 1987 M.S.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Power Systems, 1995 Ph.D.: ITU Informatics Institute, Computational Science and Engineering Program, 2012 Research Interests: Computational Intelligence Applications to Power Systems,Volt-Var Control and Optimization (VVO), Power Forecasting and Modelling, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Fuzzy Logic, Heuristic Algorithms. E-mail: ozdemirg(at)itu.edu.tr Phone: +90 212 2856052