Meet the Volume Editors

Hasan Tosun is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering. Currently, he is working at the Mudanya University, Türkiye. Dr. Tosun specializes in geotechnics for dam engineering, especially for embankment and rockfill dams, and teaches soil mechanics, geotechnics for dam engineering, and engineering geology. Up to 1997, he worked at the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works and supervised the geotechnical studies of large dams con-

structed in Turkey. He has published more than 320 technical papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings and is the author of four books on soil mechanics and geotechnics for dams. He is the president of the Turkish Society on Dam Safety and a member of the National Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in Turkey, the United States Society on Dams (USSD), and the Canadian Dam Association (CDA).

Necmi Gürsakal is a statistics professor at Mudanya University, Türkiye, where he transfers his experience and knowledge to his students. Previously, he worked as a faculty member in the Econometrics Department, Bursa Uludag University, Türkiye, for more than 40 years. Dr. Gürsakal has published many books and articles on data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and big data. In addition, he has served as a con-

sultant to various business organizations.

Asli Sebatli-Saglam has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Bursa Uludag University. She is currently an assistant professor at Mudanya University, Türkiye. Her master's thesis was on developing a decision support system within the scope of disaster operations management. In her Ph.D. thesis, she concentrated on developing a parking management system for smart cities in the field of intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Sebatli-Saglam's

research interests include operations research applications in various areas.
