ProfDilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu

She is the Professor of Contemporary Technology Management at the School of Computer Science at UTS. Her main interest and research topics are Digital Transformations, Entrepreneurship, and Technology & Innovation Management. She serves in various prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, where she is the Senior Department Editor for the Technology Management track.

She received her B.S. degree from the Industrial Engineering Department at Bogazici University (BU) in Turkey, her MA degree from the Economics Department at BU, and her Ph.D. degree from the Management Department at Istanbul Technical University. She holds an "Entrepreneurship Certificate" from Harvard Business School and a "Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program Certificate" from MIT.

She worked at Case Western Reserve University (USA), Portland State University (USA), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Sabanci University (Turkey). She was a visiting professor at Cambridge University, the UK (in 2008 and 2024), and MIT, the US (in 2014). She has participated in many international projects, including those of the UN and the EU. She has more than 220 publications, including ten books. She received an "encouragement award" from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2003, the Best Book award from the International Association for Management of Technology in 2012, and the PICMET Fellow award in 2019.

She served in various administrative roles. After being the Director of the Competitiveness Center from 2008-11, she was the founding Director of the SUCOOL Accelerator at Sabanci University, which she directed from 2012-17. She joined the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS in 2017 as the Director of the Masters in Business and Technology. She served as the Director of Techcelerator from 2021 to 2024.