Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee obtained a BSc. (2012) and MSc. (2014) in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree (2019) in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology in Babol, Iran. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has published more than 130 papers in high-quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Waste Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, etc. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), an Editorial Board Member of Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering (University of Niš), Academic Editor of PLOS One (PLOS), PeerJ Computer Science (PeerJ), Associate Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games (AIMS), and Editorial Advisory Board member of Management Decision (Emerald). He has also served on the guest editorial board in several journals such as Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee has been featured among the "World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021, 2022, and 2023" list, identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.