Dr Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral is a Reader at the Department of Applied Science in the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment of Glasgow Caledonian University and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy(FHEA), UK. He is also a member of IFAC and senior member of IEEE and currently the membership development secretary of the IEEE Control Systems Society UK & Ireland Chapter. He also chairs the Industrial Advisory board of the departments of engineering. 

Following his secondary school education at Eyüboglu High School, Ibrahim received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees all in electrical engineering from Yildiz Technical University (YTU) in 1997, 1999 and 2002, respectively. Between May 1998 – May 2004, he held the Research & Teaching Assistant position at YTU, Department of Electrical Engineering, Division of Control Systems. From 2004 to 2010, he served as an Assistant Professor, and in 2010 he was awarded Associate Professorship by the Turkish Higher Education Council. From 2010 -2015, he served as an Associate Professor for the Department of Control and Automation Engineering at Yildiz Technical University and between October 2015 to January 2017 as a full professor. During his time at YTU, he was instrumental in the establishment of the new department of Control and Automation Engineering under the school of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

General research interests of Ibrahim B. Kucukdemiral lie within the broad domain of robust, optimal and adaptive control systems, embedded systems, electronics circuits and devices, mechatronics, digital wireless communication systems, data acquisition measurement and sensor technologies and some automotive applications of control theory. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (SCI-E) and module leader of several modules including, Industrial Practice, Control Systems II, Model Predictive Control and  Control & Instrumentation Systems (African Leadership College at Mauritius). He has taught around 20 different modules at graduate and undergraduate levels at the universities including Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Turkish Airforce Academy at Istanbul and the University of Sharjah at UAE.

In the last two decades, he (co)investigated many research projects in Turkey and the UK, including the EPSRC research project ROBMAN on the Robust Robotic Manipulation of Physical Structures Under Water which brought  GCU, Heriot-Watt University and i-Tech 7, a branch company of SubSea-7. together. Ibrahim has also (co)supervised 4 PhD students to completion and served as a consultant or reviewer for many industrial and academic projects including EUREKA EUROSTARS, TUBITAK. He is a member of EPSRC Peer Review College and external examiner of several universities in England.