Dr. Erdem Doğan completed his undergraduate studies at Pamukkale University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, in 2002. He then completed his master's degree at Kırıkkale University in 2007. He worked at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in the USA during his doctoral thesis and completed his doctorate at Kırıkkale University, Institute of Science, Department of Construction in 2014. His doctoral thesis was awarded first prize by the Turkish National Committee on Roads in 2015. Now, he is an associate professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at Kirikkale University. Dr. Doğan conducts studies on traffic prediction models, signal optimization, and artificial intelligence techniques.