Prof. Dr. Vehbi Çağrı Güngör received his B.Sc. (2001) and M.Sc. (2003) degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, and earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2007. He was promoted to full professor in 2018. His research focuses on next-generation wireless communication technologies, 5G and 6G mobile networks, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. Throughout his career, Prof. Dr. Güngör has served as a project manager at Eaton Corporation, a researcher at Siemens Corporate Research, and an Executive Board Member of TÜBİTAK TEYDEB BİLTEG. He has received numerous national and international awards, and his research projects have been funded by institutions including the European Union, the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, and TÜBİTAK. Prof. Dr. Güngör has published extensively in leading international peer-reviewed journals and conferences and holds several patents. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Turkcell, Türkiye’s leading telecommunications company.

Prof. Dr. Tuğrul U. Daim is the Associate Director of the Mark O. Hatfield Cybersecurity & Cyber Defense Policy Center at Portland State University. His research focuses on technology roadmapping, forecasting, innovation management, and strategic decision-making in technology development. He has collaborated extensively with industry, government, and academic institutions worldwide, contributing to the advancement of technology assessment methodologies.

He leads a research group on Technology Evaluations and Research Applications. His group has had more than 35 PhD graduates. His research group has been supported by National Science Foundation, Department of Defense/National Security Agency, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Energy Trust of Oregon, US Dept of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, EPRI, Biotronik, Ford Motor Corporation, Intel Corporation, US Aid, Fullbright, Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission, Libyan Ministry of Education, CAPES Brazil, Maseeh Foundation, Oregon BEST, TUBITAK Turkey, Chinese Scholarship Council, FAPESP Brazil, Oregon Health and Science University, and University of Bremen.

He has published over 300 refereed journal papers, more than 20 special issues and more than 20 books. He made more than 200 conference presentations. He gave several keynote lectures at conferences, companies, universities and research centers around the world including Iamot, Euromot, Samsung, Helmut Schmidt University, Kuhne Logistics University, Seoul National University, Bogazici University, Koc University, University of Gaziantep, Izmir Institute of Technology, University of Pretoria, Tampere University of Technology, STEPI, EPIC at UNCC, Cambridge University, National Taiwan University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Friedrich Alexander University, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Office of Naval Research. He has been frequently invited to be an external examiner for promotions of many colleagues and for dissertations of doctoral students in universities around the world. He is the fifth Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Under his leadership, submissions to the journal more than doubled, the impact factor quadrupled, and the journal was ranked among the top journals in leading citation indices. Prior to that he had led the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management for a decade and made it a well-known journal in the field. In addition, he had served as an Associate Editor for other journals including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technology in Society, Engineering Management Journal and Foresight. He has been on the editorial boards of many leading journals in our field. He also has been a part of the leadership team for conferences including PICMET and IEEE TEMSCON.

Prior to joining PSU, he worked at Intel Corporation for over a decade in varying management roles including the management of product and technology development. During his tenure at PSU, he had worked very closely with Bonneville Power Administration to develop a research and technology management framework run by technology roadmaps. He is a member of the R&D Advisory Board for TUPRAS, the largest industrial firm in Turkey. He also consulted to many other international, national and regional organizations including Elsevier, ETRI, Koc Holding, Arcelik, Tofas, Kirlangic, Siemens, Mark and Spencer, and Castrol. He has been teaching in summers at the Northern Institute of Technology at Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg for over a decade.

He was given the Research Publication Award by the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) and Fellow Award by the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) both in 2014. He was awarded Leading Research Fellowship at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018 and Honorary Chair Professor title by Chao Yang University of Technology in 2019. At PSU he was given David E Wedge Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017, Outstanding Engineering Researcher Award given by the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi Research Honorary in 2011 and Distinguished Alumni Award by PSU College of Eng’g and Comp Sci in 2003. He was the President of Omega Rho, International Honor Society in Operations Research and Management Science (of INFORMS) between the years of 2014 and 2016. He founded the PSU Chapter of Omega Rho as the founding President and has been the Faculty Adviser for 20 years. Recently he was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Turkey. Several recent rankings put his group as a leading team in the field. He was ranked in the top 2% of world scientists.  A bibliometric review of 50 years of research published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change listed one of his papers as the fifth most influential paper and him as the third most influential author. A second paper identified his work at PSU as one of the roadmapping schools of thought next to Cambridge and others.