I. Safak Bayram is a Lecturer (Chancellor's Fellow) at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Between 2015 and 2019 he was an Assistant Professor at the Division of Sustainability at College of Science and Engineering and a Staff Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute both at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey in 2007, the M.S. degree in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh in August 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, in 2014. He received the Best Paper Award at the Third IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications and at the First IEEE Workshop on Renewable Energy and Smart Grid in March 2015.  His research interests include a variety of interdisciplinary problems arising in societal infrastructures such as power grids and transportation networks. He has experience in electric-vehicle grid integration, demand-side management, and communication systems.