Tayfun Uyanık is currently working at the Department of Marine Engineering/Istanbul Technical University as a research assistant and studying for his Ph.D. Additionally, he is working at CROM, a leading European research center affiliated with the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University. His areas of research are electric microgrids, energy efficiency, ship electric microgrids, machine learning and applications, deep learning and applications, heuristic optimization algorithms, and optimization.