Murat Yildirim (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and industrial engineering, the M.Sc. degree in operations research, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Director of Cyber Physical Systems Laboratory, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. His research interests include the modeling and the computational challenges arising from the integration of real-time inferences generated by advanced data analytics and simulation into large-scale mathematical programming models used for optimizing and controlling networked systems. His research has been supported by multiple projects funded by NSF, DoE, MTRAC, and Ford.