Prof. Tufan Kumbasar Istanbul Technical University, Vice Dean of ITU Dean of Research (ARDEK), Director of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AI2S) Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Türkiye kumbasart@itu.edu.tr Biography: TUFAN KUMBASAR received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Control and Automation Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He is currently a Professor and the director of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AI2S) Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University. He has currently authored more than 150 papers in international conferences, journals, and books. His major research interests are in artificial and computational intelligence, notably type-2 fuzzy logic, fuzzy control, neural networks, intelligent systems, robotics, and machine learning. He has served as a Publication Co-Chair, Panel Session Co-Chair, Special Session Co-Chair and PC, IPC, and TPC in various conferences. Dr. Kumbasar is currently an Editor-in-Chief for the Advances in Computational Intelligences and an Area Editor for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Dr. Kumbasar received the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems in 2015 and the 6th International Conference on Control Engineering & Information Technology in 2018. He is the recipient of the ODTÜ Mustafa N. Parlar Research and Education Foundation Research Incentive Award in 2020, the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientists Award in 2021, the Istanbul Technical University Young Scientists Achievement Award in 2022, the Science Academy Young Scientist Award in 2023 and the IEEE Turkey Research Incentive Award in 2023.