Biography
Mehmet KUCUKMEHMETOGLU earned his bachelor’s degree in City and Regional
Planning from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey and his Doctor of
Philosophy degree in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University,
USA after having successfully earned his master’s degree in Urban and Regional
Planning from the Graduate School Public and International Affairs at
University of Pittsburgh, USA. Mehmet Kucukmehmetoglu was the head of the
Department of City and Regional Planning of Gebze Technical University, Turkey from
2014 to 2022. Currently, he has been pursuing his academic career in the same
area as a faculty member of School of Architecture of Istanbul Technical
University, and has the following areas of research interests; resource
economics, policy analysis, quantitative techniques in urban and regional
planning, and optimization based urban modelling.