Dr. Aydogan Ozdemir was born in Artvin, Turkey, in January 1957. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, 1982, and 1990. Following a long academic life at Istanbul Technical University, he recently

got a full professor position at Kadir Has University-Istanbul, where he is supposed to serve as R&D Manager of the university. His current research interests are electric power systems and high-voltage engineering, emphasizing asset management, reliability analysis, intelligent method applications in power system modeling, simulation, analysis and control, smart grids, and building automation systems. He has published more than 200 technical papers and conducted several research activities. He is a Member of the National Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineering and a Senior Member of IEEE PES.