Prof. Alatas received his B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees from Firat University. He is a Professor of Software Engineering at Firat University and the head of the same department. He is the founder and head of the Computer Engineering Department of Munzur University and the Software Engineering Department of Firat University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social network analysis, metaheuristic optimization, and machine learning. Dr Alatas has published over 250 papers in many well-known international journals and conference proceedings since 2001. He has been the editor of 12 journals, 5 of which are indexed in SCI, and a reviewer of 70 SCI-indexed journals.