Yaprak Yalçın received her B.S. degree in Control & Computer Engineering and her MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Control & Automation Engineering, all from Istanbul Technical University, in 2002, 2004, and 2010, respectively. Afterward, she pursued her research at Imperial College as an Academic Visitor till 2012 for one and a half years. She worked in Istanbul Technical University as an Assistant Professor between 2012 and 2017. She received an Associate Professorship degree in 2017. She is currently holding an Associate Professor position at the same University. Her research interests include the adaptive control of nonlinear systems, passivity-based and H-infinity control of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems, model-based predictive control, and industrial automation and control.