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Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber is a Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, at Faculty of Engineering Management, in the Chair of Marketing and Economic Engineering. His research is on mathematics, operational research), finance, economics, optimization and control, neuro-, bio- and earth-sciences, medicine, data mining, analytics, artificial intelligence, education and development; he is involved in the organization of scientific life internationally. He received Diploma and Doctorate in Mathematics, and Economics / Business Administration, at RWTH Aachen, and Habilitation at TU Darmstadt (Germany). He replaced Professorships at University of Cologne, and TU Chemnitz, Germany. At Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, he was a Professor in the programs of Financial Mathematics and Scientific Computing, and Assistant to the Director, and has been a member of five further graduate schools, institutes and departments of METU. G.-W. Weber has different affiliations at Universities of Siegen (Germany), Federation University (Ballarat, Australia), University of Aveiro (Portugal), University of North Sumatra (Medan, Indonesia), Malaysia University of Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and KTO Karatay University (Lean & Green SCM Lab; Konya, Turkey), at EURO (Association of European OR Societies) where he is "Advisor to EURO Conferences" and IFORS (International Federation of OR Societies), where he is member in many national OR societies and working groups, at POP (Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group), etc. G.-W. Weber has supervised and co-supervised many MSc. and PhD. students, authored and coauthored numerous books, special issues and articles, and given many presentations from a great diversity of subject areas, on theory, methods and practice. He has been a member of many international editorial boards and award boards; he participated at and was in charge of numerous research projects; G.-W. Weber received various recognitions and awards by students, universities, conferences and scientific organizations, nationally and internationally.

Hajar Farnoudkia studied her bachelor and master's on statistics in University of Tabriz. After graduation in 2010, she started to work as a personnel master in a Turkish factory settled in Iran. In 2015, she was accepted as a Ph.D student from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey working in two TUBITAK projects and could finish her education in five years. Immediately, she was hired as an assistant professor in Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Baskent University. She has some SCI publications and book chapters based on statistical methods in biological network and signal data.