Gebrail Bekdaş, Associative Professor, is researcher in Structural Control and Optimization at Istanbul University - Cerrahpaşa. He obtained his DPhil in Structural Engineering from Istanbul University with a thesis subject of design of cylindrical walls. He co-organized 15th EU-ME Workshop: Metaheuristic and Engineering in Istanbul. In optimization, he organized several mini-symposiums or special sections in prestigious international events such as the Biennial International Conference on Engineering Vibration (ICoEV-2015), 3rd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2015), 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM2014), International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization (OPTI 2014), 11th Biennial International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP2013), 3rd European Conference of Civil Engineering and 10th – 11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM). He co-edited Metaheuristics and Optimization in Civil Engineering published by Springer and he is one of the guest editors in 2017 special issue of KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. He has authored more than 200 papers for journals and scientific events.