Işık İlber Sırmatel is an assistant professor of automatic control at the Faculty of Engineering, Trakya University. He received the B.Sc. degrees in mechanical and control engineering from Istanbul Technical University, the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from EPFL, in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2020, respectively. Prior to joining Trakya University in 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL. His research focuses on applications of automatic control and optimization, with an emphasis on model predictive control of intelligent transportation systems.