Erdal Kayacan received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2003 and a M.Sc. degree in systems and control engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. In September 2011, he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. After finishing his post-doctoral research in KU Leuven at the division of mechatronics, biostatistics and sensors (MeBioS), he is currently pursuing his research in Nanyang Technological University at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an assistant professor.His research areas are flight mechanics and control, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, mechatronics, soft computing methods, iterative learning control techniques, sliding mode control and model predictive control.Dr. Kayacan is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently serving as an editor for Journal on Automation and Control Engineering (JACE) and editorial advisory board in Grey Systems Theory and Application.Has published over 20 papers in international peer-reviewed Journals, and presented 25 international Conference papers.