Dr. Babek Erdebilli (B.D. Rouyendegh) is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), Turkey. His work has been published in high-impact journals such as the International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, and Annals of Operations Research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Turkish Operations Management and an Academic Editor at Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. His main teaching and research interests include performance measurement, fuzzy sets, linear programming, and multi-criteria decision making. He was awarded a grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) and served as a Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada (2011-2012) and postdoc at Auburn University, USA (2015-2016), respectively. He is a member of INFORMS and MCDM.
Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber is a Professor and the Chair of Marketing and Economic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on operations research, financial mathematics, optimization and control, the neuro- and bio-sciences, data mining, education and development. He is affiliated with the Association of European OR Societies (EURO), where he serves as the Advisor to EURO Conferences and International Federation of OR Societies (IFORS).