Umran S. İnan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering & Physics at Koç University and a Professor (Emeritus) of EE at Stanford University. He received BS/MS degrees in EE at Middle East Technical University (METU) and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. He served as a faculty member in the EE Department at Stanford as the Director of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory. He secured over $100M in research funding from U.S. government agencies, leading scientific projects to conduct observations of interactions of electromagnetic waves with upper atmosphere & ionosphere on all seven continents and numerous satellites. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications, has been cited more than 25,000 times, and has graduated 60 Ph.D. students. During 2009-2021, he served as President of Koç University, transforming it into a leading research institution, with 800 PhD students and receiving highest level of European research funding in country. He has been recognized with 2008 Royal Society Appleton Prize, 2019 Mustafa Prize (Iran), the 2010 TÜBİTAK Special Award (Turkey), the 2023 John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the U.S. Antarctic Service Medal, and an Antarctic mountain named “Inan Peak” in his honor. Professor İnan has been an independent member of the Board of Directors of Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.Ş. since 2025.