Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Öztopal's research interests include satellite and radar meteorology, climate change, renewable energy (wind and solar energy), and modern methods in science such as fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, and artificial neural networks.

Currently, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Öztopal serves as the Vice Chair of the Department of Meteorological Engineering and a member of the Board of Directors at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at ITU. He is married and has two children.

Abdussamet Subaşı received his bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Atatürk University in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He obtained his master's and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Atatürk University and Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2010 and 2017, respectively. As part of his doctoral studies, he conducted research at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG) at the University of Stuttgart for one year between 2014 and 2015. From 2019 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Rennes 1 University for six months. His main research areas include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), flow control, transition to turbulence, nano-fluids, enhancement of heat transfer, machine learning, optimization, and the application of multi-criteria decision making to heat and flow phenomena.

He worked as a Research Assistant from 2010 to 2017 and has been serving as a faculty member at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at ITU since December 2017. In February 2021, he was appointed as the Vice Director of the Graduate Education Institute at ITU.

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Dr. Burak Kulga holds Ph.D. Degree (2014) and M.Sc. Degree (2010) from Penn State University and a B.S. Degree from METU Ankara (2004), all in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. He also holds an M.S. degree in Energy Science and Technology from Istanbul Technical University (2010). His research work consisted of numerical modeling and reservoir simulations in oil and gas reservoirs as well as geothermal reservoirs, His research area also includes carbon dioxide sequestration in geological formations and machine learning applications in oil and gas industry.

He joined İTU family on September 9, 2019. His academic experiences include working as an assistant professor at Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department of Near East University and teaching and research assistant at Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department of Penn State University. He worked as a reservoir simulation engineer at Pusula R&D, a company that focuses on geothermal projects and investments in Turkey and Eastern Africa. He also worked as a production and stimulation engineer at Schlumberger in the USA; as a reservoir simulation engineer at Chevron in the USA; and as a production engineer at PEMI (now TransAtlantic Petroleum) in Turkey. His industry experience includes a wide range of activities including supervising production and drilling operations in East and Southeast part of Turkey, designing hydraulic fracture operations and fluids for shale reservoirs in Ohio, Colorado and Wyoming, uncertainty analysis and probabilistic forecasts for reservoir simulation models, development of full-field geothermal reservoir models, and analysis of geothermal well tests.

Mustafa Özkartal was born in 1974 in Yıldızeli district of Sivas. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Sivas, he accomplished his higher education at Atatürk University Erzincan Vocational High School between 1992 and 1994. Subsequent to his higher education, he completed his military service between 1995 and 1997. He started working in Istanbul Technical University in November 1997; and in 1998, he was assigned in Student Affairs Department of Institute of Science. While continuing his employment at İTU, he successfully completed his higher education in Department of Economics at Anadolu University Open Education Faculty between 2001 and 2005. During his assignment in the Institute of Science, he took parts in student information processing, student affairs, student military service procedures, occupational health and safety commission and graduate student orientation processes. Mustafa Özkartal currently holds the position of Secretary of the Graduate School, and he is married with two children.

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