received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (1993), received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (1998) Computer Science (2003) at Syracuse University. He worked as a lecturer at Syracuse University between 1997 and 2000. His research work was supported by the Graduate Students Research in Wide Area Network Management project which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was involved in a Computer Resilience Project funded by DARPA, USA (2003-2005). He worked as a Professor of Computer Engineering at Gebze Technical University (2004-2006), Director of TÜBİTAK - BİLGEM (2015-2020), and Istanbul Technical University Vice Rector (2021-2022). He is acting as the Rector of Gebze Technical University.