Aydogan Ozdemir (Principal Investigator) was born in Artvin, Turkey, in January 1957. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980, 1982, and 1990, respectively. He is a Professor at Istanbul Technical University. His current research interests are in the area of electric power system with emphasis on reliability analysis, modern tools (neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, etc.) for power system modeling, analysis and control, and high-voltage engineering. Dr. Özdemir is a Member of the National Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineering. (Personal web-site)

Mustafa Bagriyanik (Researcher) was born in Turkey, in 1964. He graduated from Electrical EngineeringDepartment of Istanbul Technical University,Turkey. He obtain ned both his MSc, and Ph.D.degrees in EE also from Istanbul Technical University. He was s a research associate at Texas A&M, Department of Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Istanbul Technical Universi ty (ITU), Turkey. His current research interests are power system analysis and application of intelligent methods in electrical engineering. He is a seniormember of IEEE and a member of EMO (Turkish Electrical Engineering Society). (Personal web-site)

M. Alp Batman (Researcher) was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1965. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1987, 1991 and 2001, respectively. He is currently part of a Technical Staff at the same university. His current research interests are renewable energy systems, intelligent method applications to electric power systems and smart grids. (Personal web-site)

M. Alparslan Zehir (Student Researcher) received his BSc in 2010 and MSc in 2012 from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). In 2008 and 2009, he was a member of ITU Solar Car Team and Powerbee Wind Energy Project Team. He is presently research assistant and PhD candidate in ITU and student researcher in SEEMBEET (Smart Electric Energy Management and Buildings Energy Efficiency Technologies) bilateral project. His research fields are energy management systems, distributed generation, microgrids and demand response.
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Aytug Font (Student Researcher) received his BSc in 2009 and MSc in 2012 from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He is presently research assistant and PhD candidate in electrical engineering departmant, ITU and student researcher in SEEMBEET (Smart Electric Energy Management and Buildings Energy Efficiency Technologies) bilateral project. His research areas are high voltage technique, electrostatic and heat analysis, numerical methods, finite element methods, ANN, fuzzy modeling, classification algorithms. (Personal web-site)

Mehmet Ali Sonmez (Technical Staff) received his BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1997 from Selcuk University and MSc in Electrical Engineering in 2014 from Istanbul Technical University. He took in charge as a Maintenance Engineer at Caan Textile company in 1997-1998. He worked as a R&D Engineer in 1998-2003 at Turk Telekom Company. He took on task at the same company for Chef Enginnering of DC/AC Power System in 2003-2005.He worked at Customer Relationship Management Departmant as a Service Account Engineer in 2005-2010. He is a an Engineer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey since 2010. He is presently research PhD candidate in ITU.