Prof. Dr. Metin Soycan is a Professor in the Department of Geomatic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University (Istanbul, Türkiye), where he currently serves as Vice Dean. He received his B.Sc. (1997), M.Sc. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) in Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering from the same university, joined its academic staff in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2014. He chaired the Department of Geomatic Engineering from 2015 to 2022 and serves as a program evaluator for the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) accreditation board and MÜDEK. His research covers GNSS positioning (PPP, PPK, RTK), geoid modelling, airborne and mobile LiDAR, mobile mapping systems, machine learning-based point cloud processing, and road geometry extraction and route design for transportation applications. He has authored around 110 publications, including articles in Transportation Research Record, IEEE Access, Sensors and Survey Review, and has led or contributed to numerous funded research and industry projects. He is also a committee member of several scientific journals.