Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serpil KILIÇ DEPREN works at Yildiz Technical University (YTU) Statistics Department, İstanbul/Turkey. She received a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Marmara University in 2012. Her areas of interest include Hierarchical Linear Models, Generalized Estimation Equations, Mixed Models, Machine Learning Algorithms, Entropy, Data Analysis, and Multivariate Statistical Methods. Dr. Kılıç Depren has 36 international and 7 national publications in different journals indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS, and ESCI and has authored 1 book and 3 book chapters. In addition, she has participated in 20 proceedings in international conferences and 4 proceedings in national conferences. She has also won 7 academic awards from TUBITAK and YTU.