Prof. Dr. Özlem İlk Dağ is a Professor of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. She holds the position of Department Head of Statistics and serves on advisory boards for TUBITAK and the Journal of Biostatistics. Her academic journey includes roles from Research Assistant (1997) to Professor (2018), with affiliations in Actuarial Sciences and Biostatistics. Education: Ph.D. in Statistics (Iowa State University, 2004), M.S. and B.S. from METU. Research focuses on longitudinal data analysis, multilevel modeling, Bayesian methods, and biostatistics. She authored three editions of R Yazilimina Giris and a foundational book on multivariate longitudinal data analysis. Key contributions include developing marginalized transition random effects models (MTREM) and R packages like 'mmm'. Awards include METU's 20-year service recognition and teaching excellence. She has supervised numerous research projects and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles across biostatistics, genomics, and statistical computing. Her work bridges statistical theory and application, with notable contributions to gene expression clustering, maternal antibody studies in veterinary science, and computational methods for longitudinal data. She maintains active collaborations in genomics and biostatistics, and her lab focuses on integrating statistical computing with biomedical research.







