Dr. Gulhayat GOLBAŞI SİMSEK is working as Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Yıldız Technical University, Turkey. She received BSc. degree in Statistics from Yıldız Technical University, Turkey; MSc. degree in Statistics from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey; Ph.D degree in Statistics from Marmara University, Turkey. Her research interests are multivariate data analysis, statistical modeling and machine learning. She can be contacted at: gulhayat@yildiz.edu.tr