About the Author

Olcay Akman

Olcay Akman is a professor of mathematics at Illinois State University. He is director of the Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance: a consortium of universities that collaborate and share resources in the pursuit of scholarships, teaching, and advanced research development. Akman is currently the editor-in-chief of Letters in Biomathematics and Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics. His research interests include computing-intensive modeling, evolutionary computing, and machine-learning-based methods.