Prof. Dr. Figen Tokatli PhD: Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL) Figen Tokatli is a professor of food engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology (Izmir-Turkiye). Her research focuses on multivariate data analysis for food authentication, quality assessment, and process monitoring. She has experience in the characterization of wine and olive oil, adulteration detection of edible oils, and characterization of legume- and cereal-based products. She is also experienced in applying statistical process monitoring and designing experiments to optimize and improve food systems. Prof. Tokatli has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on spectroscopic analysis and food authenticity. She has supervised M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and contributed to national and international research projects. Keywords: chemometrics, statistical process monitoring, food processing and technology, olive oil, wine, flours.