Zafer Bingül received a BA degree from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992, and MSc and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, in 1996 and 2000, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Research Associate in the Electrical Engineering Department of Tennessee State University, Nashville, where he was engaged in the research and application of genetic algorithms for multi-objective optimization problems. He has been the advisor of more than 20 theses and published more than 40 international journal papers, more than 60 international conference papers and 4 books. He is currently a Professor of Mechatronics Engineering at the School of Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey. His research interests are robotics and welding automation, optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and control.