Aydin Akan (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1996. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul University between 1996 and 2017. He was appointed as Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering between March 2017 and January 2020, where he served as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. Currently he holds a professor position at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir University of Economics, where he serves as the Department Chair. His current research interests include nonstationary signal processing, especially Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal analysis, time-frequency signal processing, artificial intelligence methods, and their applications to early detection and classification of neurological and neurodevelopmental diseases, human emotion estimation, biomedical engineering and machine fault diagnosis systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Societies, and a member of the European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP). He serves as an Associate Editor of Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Electronics and Signal Processing Journals, and Section Editor of the Franklin Open Journal of the Franklin Institute.