Optimization of Smart Grid Design, Operations, and Management

Suleyman Uludag, Associate Professor, The University of Michigan – Flint, Ann Arbor, USA. Suleyman has been working in the area of Smart Grid for the past 5 years. He has been awarded a Teaching Excellence Award by the University of Michigan - Flint in 2010. He has published several survey type papers and delivered 7 tutorials on conferences on Smart Grid. He has several papers in progress on topics related to the book's theme. Tolga Girici, Associate Professor, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Tolga received his Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, College Park USA in 2007. He has previously worked as an Intern at Intelligent Automation Inc. at Bethesda MD, and Fujitsu Labs, College Park, MD USA. He has served in the TPC of many networking conferences such as ICC, Globecom, PIMRC and WCNC, and reviewer for many networking journals. His research interests include Next Generation Wireless Communications, LTE, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Tactical Communications. Hakan Gultekin, Associate Professor, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Hakan received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey. Before joining TOBB ETU he visited the University of Liege in Belgium for postdoctoral studies. His research interests include scheduling, optimization modeling and exact and heuristic algorithm development especially for the problems arising in modern manufacturing systems, wireless sensor networks and energy management. He has several journal and conference papers on these topics. Bulent Tavli, Professor, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Bulent received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2001 and 2005 from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. Smart grid, information security, telecommunications, mathematical programming, and embedded systems are his current research areas. He has been working in the area of Smart Grid for the past two years and on modeling, analysis, and optimization of engineering systems for more than ten years.