The Future of Electric Aviation and Artificial Intelligence

T. Hikmet Karakoc, Ph.D., graduated from Anadolu University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University. He received his Ph.D. from Anadolu University, where he started his full-time teaching and received his Full Professorship. He is currently researching at the Eskisehir Technical University. He has a wide range of research interests, including sustainable aviation, aircraft propulsion systems, insulation, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), indoor air quality, gas turbines, cogeneration systems, renewable energy, energy economics, fuels, and combustion. He has participated in numerous industrial projects on these topics as a researcher, consultant, and project manager for over 30 projects and corporations. He also started a contest on special insulation applications among university students. He served as an Editor-in-Chief, guest editor, and editorial board member for international scientific journals. He published national and international papers in over 300 journals and 40 books. Professor Karakoc actively follows membership positions for the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers and many sectorial associations, international scientific organizations, and societies. He is an active Board of Directors member of the International Association for Green Energy. He is currently holding the presidency of the SARES organization, which is actively supporting scientists and students in the area of sustainable aviation. He also organizes four symposiums on aviation subject areas as a Founding Chair.

Oleksandr Zaporozhets, Ph.D., has been a Professor at the National Aviation University (NAU) since 1999, where he was alsoDirector of the Institute of Environmental Safety from 2008 to 2018 and Head of the Department of Safety of Life Activity from 2001 through 2013. His research areas include aircraft noise and air pollution impact assessment and abatement at airports, environmental protection from civil aviation impact, environmental risk analysis and control, flight safety, aviation security, and wind farm safety. Dr. Zaporozhets graduated from the Kiev Institute of Engineers of Civil Aviation in 1984. He has been a nominated member from Ukraine of the Committee on Environmental Protection from the Impact of Aviation (CAEP) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) since 2009 and Scientific Supervisor of the Center for Environmental Problems of Airports (CESA) of the NAU since 2006. He is a Ukrainian Grouping of Acousticians member and contact person with the European Acoustic Association and the Institute of Aviation, Warsaw.

Alper Dalkıran, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University (formerly known as Anadolu University) from the Avionics Department. He completed his MSc degree in Aviation Maintenance at the School of Science at Anadolu University in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2017 in Environmental Sustainability on Airports from the School of Science at Anadolu University by developing a model of energy-based calculations of an aerodrome. Dr. Dalkıran has studied aircraft engines, sustainability, airports, and exergy. He has 17 years of professional experience in information technology, automation, and airport systems integration. He has managed teams on system-design, projects, tests, commissioning, operational readiness, and operations. He has been working in the School of Aviation at Suleyman Demirel University since 2019 and lecturing in flight theory, airline management, and airport design subjects. He has been promoted to Associated Professor degree in 2024.

Ali Haydar Ercan, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cumhuriyet, Sivas, and his MSc degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Gazi, Ankara, where he studied Heat Transfer. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerodynamics, University of Liverpool, England, where he worked on Boundary Layer Theory on Flat Plate Surfaces and developed empiric formulas for transition development distance from the leading edge. He completed his Ph.D. in 1997. He also earned a Postgraduate degree in Software Technologies from the University of Liverpool in 1999. He worked at the University of Cumhuriyet as a lecturer, at the University of Liverpool as an assistant lecturer while studying for his Ph.D., at the University of 19 Mayıs as Head of the Junior Aviation Technical School, and was one of the founders of the department. Currently, he is working as a Lecturer in the Department of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Electronics and Automation at Porsuk Vocational School at Eskisehir Technical University. He is also working on PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) related subjects and a new idea for wing design. He is a reviewer for four journals and a guest editor. He has held a wide range of managerial positions experience with international commercial private companies.