Olcay Akman is a professor of mathematics at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.  He is the director of the intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance, a consortium of universities collaborating and sharing resource in the pursuit of scholarships, teaching, and advanced research development.  Olcay is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Letters in Biomathematics and a journal for undergraduate research, Spora.  His research interests include computing-intensive modeling, using evolutionary computing or machine learning based methods.