İlker Özçelik Author

Dr. İlker Özçelik's background includes both researching network security and teaching University classes in the electrical engineering program. He has organized many cyber security awareness workshops and has given speeches to attendees from both government agencies and private industries in Turkey. He also served as a member of the Cyber Security Working Group at Council of Higher Education in Turkey and Information and Cyber Security National Science and Advisory Board at Information Security Association of Turkey.

Dr. Özçelik has a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Education from Marmara University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Syracuse University, and Ph.D. from Electrical Engineering in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University.

He worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University for three years. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Information Systems Engineering at Recep Tayyip
Erdogan University.

Dr. Brooks’ background includes managing computer networks that span continents, performing sponsored research, and teaching university classes. His research has been sponsored by both government and industry, including:

  • The Office of Naval Research (ONR),
  • The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR),
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
  • The National Science Foundation (NSF),
  • The Army Research Office (ARO),
  • The United States Department of State,
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and
  • BMW Manufacturing Corporation.

He has a B.A. in Mathematical Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Louisiana State University. He has worked in the United States, France, Germany, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. His consulting clients include the World Bank and French stock exchange authority. Dr. Brooks was head of the Distributed Systems Department of The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (PSU/ARL) for seven years. He has been an Associate Professor with the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Clemson University since 2004.