Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bogazici University, Istanbul – Turkey. She has also served as the Head of the Graduate Programme in Systems and Control Engineering of the same university for 15 years. Her technical research areas span from pattern recognition and robotics to nonlinear dynamics, chaos control and biological system modelling. Her fields of philosophical involvement include social impacts of technology, systems theory, cognitive science and biosemiotics. She is board member of the Turkish National Committee of Automatic Control, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies and the International Society for Information Studies (IS4IS), and advisory committee member of the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS).