Name:Geylani Kardas

Bio:

Dr. Kardas received his B.Sc. in computer engineering and both M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in information technologies from Ege University in 2001, 2003 and 2008 respectively. In 2015, he achieved the rank of Associate Professor in Computer-Information Science and Engineering field from the Republic of Turkey - Inter-University Council (ÜAK). He is currently an associate professor at Ege University, International Computer Institute (ICI) and the head of Software Engineering Research Laboratory at ICI. He is also the vice director and the directorate board member of ICI. His research interests mainly include agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE), model-driven engineering (MDE), domain-specific languages / domain-specific modeling languages (DSLs / DSMLs) and low-code software development. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in these research areas. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Computer Languages (Elsevier), responsible for coordinating the MDE and DSL track.

Dr. Kardas worked and is still working as the principle investigator, researcher or consultant in various R&D projects funded by both governments and private agencies including European Union (EU) EUREKA, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and Scientific Research Projects Directorate of Ege University. He also worked and is still working as the technical consultant in industrial R&D projects conducted by various corporations.

Dr. Kardas regularly serves as the referee / the panelist for the assessment of both academic and industrial R&D project proposals submitted to TUBITAK and inspects the progress of the supported projects on behalf of TUBITAK. Likewise, he is an assessment committee member and a referee for the R&D center applications submitted to the Republic of Turkey - Ministry of Industry and Technology and takes participation in periodic inspection of accredited centers on behalf of the ministry. In the past, he was an editorial board member of the Journal of Computer Languages and Computer Languages, Systems & Structures journal. He continually serves as a reviewer for many well-known scientific journals such as Applied Soft Computing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Computer Languages, Science of Computer Programming, Software and Systems Modeling and Software Quality Journal. He is also participating as program / track co-chair or organizing / program committee member in several conference and workshop series including ACM/SIGAPP SAC PL, DADA@ECSA, DCAI, FedCSIS, HuFaMo@MODELS, ICAART, QUATIC, SLATE and UYMS. He is a member of the ACM.

Country:Turkey

Affiliation:Ege University

Research interests:Software Engineering, Multi-agent Systems, Model-driven Engineering, Domain-specific Languages, Low-code Development