Dr. Yusuf KARADEDE is the assistant professor of industrial engineering, faculty of engineering and natural sciences at Gaziantep Islam Science and Technology University (GISTU-GİBTU), Gaziantep, Türkiye. He was a research assistant in the department of industrial engineering at Suleyman Demirel University (SDU), Isparta, Türkiye, between 2015 and 2020 years. He was awarded a BSc degree in Mathematics from Suleyman Demirel University in 2010, and a MSc degree in industrial engineering from Suleyman Demirel University (SDU) in 2014. In 2015, he started a PhD degree in Industrial engineering from SDU and graduated from this doctorate program in 2020. His research interests include discrete-time stochastic models, financial and energy modeling and forecasting, nature-based heuristic algorithms, operations research and mathematical programming, probability and uncertainty, probability theory and stochastic processes, propabilistic computing, parameter tuning, stochastic differential equations, uncertainty modeling, time series analysis, factory system simulation, and soft computing and related techniques.