İBRAHİM AYDOĞDU

Prof. İbrahim Aydoğdu is an Associate Professor at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, with a concurrent Associate Professor role at Georgia Institute of Technology, Engineering Faculty, Mechanical Engineering. His career spans structural engineering, metaheuristic optimization, and thermohydraulic systems.

• PhD in Engineering Sciences from Middle East Technical University
• Postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology

His research focuses on structural optimization, steel and composite structures, and metaheuristic algorithms. He has supervised 13 theses, including projects on seismic isolation, nanoscale beam optimization, and public transport efficiency. His work emphasizes computational methods for structural design, with funded research from TUBITAK and higher education institutions.

Key trends in his 96 publications include applications of artificial bee colony algorithms, social spider optimization, and GPU-based parallel programming in civil and mechanical engineering contexts. He has contributed to books on harmony search methods and nature-inspired algorithms in structural design.