Orhan Ertugrul Guclu

Building next-generation AI-powered simulation ecosystems for defense, wargaming, and operational analysis.

Ankara, Türkiye

About

Orhan Ertugrul Guclu is working currently at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - Defense Industries Research and Development Institute as Senior Simulation Software Developer - Chief Researcher. He had worked at TUSAŞ Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayi- TAI Turkish Aircraft Industry till June 2020. He has received his B. Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University, M.Sc. degree in Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Anadolu University with the master thesis about airport gate assignment optimization and Ph.D. degree in Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been certified as Student Air Traffic Controller by General Directorate of State Airports Authority in 2016. He has experiences about MBSE, modeling and simulation on operational effectiveness, real life airport operations optimizations such as fast time simulation modeling of airports, aircraft gate assignment, taxi route assignment and data link communication. Decision making tools are also in his concern with his on-going projects.

Experience

  • Technical Team Member at NATO
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    I support the Distributed Synthetic Training team for the Live, Virtual and Constructive training NATO exercises at the strategic, operational and tactical-levels of war.

  • The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey / SAGE (Full-time · 6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Chief Researcher
      Jun 2020 - Jun 2026 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    • Administrative Project Manager
      Feb 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

      S-FORCE Administrative Project Manager

    • Project Manager
      Oct 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Postgraduate Lecturer (Part-Time) at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
    Sep 2018 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Operational Analyst Specialist at TUSAŞ - Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayii A.Ş. / Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI)
    Jan 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Research Assistant at Anadolu Üniversitesi
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos