Gokturk Poyrazoglu received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He worked at Alevo Analytics and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Charlotte, NC. Since 2017, he has been a faculty member at Ozyegin University. He is the Department Head of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and the Director of the Grid Operations and Planning Laboratory at Ozyegin University. He received the Turkish Council of Higher Education 2022 Outstanding Achievement in University–Business World Cooperation Award.