Prof.Dr. Tufan Kumbasar

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Tufan Kumbasar received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Control and Automation Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Türkiye. He holds the position of Professor in the Control and Automation Engineering Department and serves as the Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AI2S) Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ITU, Türkiye. His major research interests are in computational intelligence, notably type-2 fuzzy logic, fuzzy control, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and intelligent systems. He is also interested in robotics, machine learning, intelligent control, and their real-world applications. He has served as a Publication Co-Chair, Panel Session Co-Chair, Special Session Co-Chair, PC, IPC, and TPC in various international and national conferences. Dr. Kumbasar is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and an Area Editor for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 

Dr. Kumbasar received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems in 2015 and the 6th International Conference on Control Engineering and 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, IEEE Turkey Research Incentive Award in 2022, and the Science Academy Young Scientist Award in 2023.