Head of the Software Engineering Department, Dr. Lecturer Member Meltem Yıldırım İmamoğlu; He received his undergraduate degree from Hacettepe University Department of Statistics, his master's degree from METU Informatics Institute, Information Systems, and completed Atılım University's Engineering Systems Modeling and Design PhD Program. He has attended various conferences at home and abroad on the subjects of digital transformation in the public sector, IT auditing, cloud computing and business intelligence solutions, his papers have been published and his articles have appeared in international books. He has 15 years of experience in the information and communication technologies sector and served as the technical coordinator of the e-Inspection project implemented in all tax offices across the country. He has been teaching various courses, especially software development processes and computer programming, in the Computer and Software Engineering departments of the Faculty of Engineering for about 10 years. At the same time, since 2016, he has been providing consultancy in many projects in the field of STEM within the Ministry of National Education and organizing trainer trainings.

Prof. Dr. Doğan Çalıkoğlu, after finishing T.E.D. Ankara Collage, proceeded from 
electronics to computer hardware in the METU Electrical Engineering Department and 
completed his Master of Science thesis by appending a connection circuit to the first PDP-8
computer imported to Turkey (1970). While doing his Ph.D. in USA, in the Computer 
Science Department of The University of Iowa, he received a “National Science Foundation” 
support and separately, did a project for the Collage of Medicine. His academic career began 
as an assistant in METU before departing for his Ph.D. study. After returning home (1974), 
he continued in the same place as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor and 
head in the Computer Science main branch. He has been a Professor since 1986 and has been 
employed by the Gazi University for 26 years, by Karabük University for two years and by
THK University for two years. In the meanwhile, he has served as the Head of various 
departments and as a member of various University committees, involving work on 
regulations and developing curriculums. He has supervised a total of sixty-two graduate 
theses in the areas of hardware, software and the theory of computers in addition to 
electronics and electricity. Those theses include the design and implementation of the first 
microcomputer prototype in Turkey and separately, the design and implementation of an 
experimental control card with a microprocessor. The latter was put to mass production by the 
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority.
Prof. Dr. Çalıkoğlu has worked on the automatic assessment of program assignments and the 
development of educational software for teaching hardware design principles, besides logic
for engineers. He has fifty publications including two books and two printed course notes.

Dr. Abdellatif BABA. 2003 yılında Paul SABATIER Üniversitesi (Toulouse III), Analiz ve Sistem Mimarisi Laboratuvarı’nda (LAAS-CNRS) Otomatik Sistemler dalında yüksek lisansını (M. Sc.), 2007 yılında yine aynı üniversitede Robotik ve Yapay Zeka bölümünde doktorasını tamamladı. Sonraki beş yıl içinde çeşitli devlet ve özel üniversitelerde yardımcı doçent olarak çalıştı. Ekim (2013) ‘den beri akademik hayatına Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi’nde devam etmektedir.

Ege Üniversitesi Astronomi ve Uzay Bilimleri Bölümünde Lisans, ODTÜ Fizik Bölümünde Yüksek Lisans derecesi ve TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümünde Doktora derecesini tamamlamıştır. İki yıl devlet üniversitesinde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak çalıştı. Sonra Teknoloji Firmasında Avrupa Birliği Projelerinde (ECS (Electronic Components Systems), ITEA, AI4EU (Europe’s Al-on-Demand Platform), BBI JU (Circular Bio-based Europe), Eureka Clusters) Proje Yöneticisi ve Türkiye Konsorsiyumu Lideri olarak iki yıl aktif olarak görev aldı. Şubat (2023)’den beri akademik hayatına Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi’nde devam etmektedir.