Prof. Dr. Erol Eğrioğlu has been conducting academic research on fuzzy inference systems and artificial neural networks for time series forecasting. He has published over 100 papers and more than 100 papers in these areas. He received his PhD degree from Hacettepe University, Department of Statistics in 2006. He has been working as a Professor at Giresun University, Department of Statistics since 2015. Prof. Dr. Erol Eğrioğlu worked as a visiting researcher at the Marketing Analytics and Forecasting Research Center at Lancaster University, England, which is shown as the best centre in the world in the field of forecasting for 7 months in the 2019-2020 academic year. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Marketing Analytics and Forecasting Research Centre, Lancaster University, UK. According to a research published in 2020 and 2021, he ranked in the top 2% of the world's most influential scientists. According to the 2021 survey, Prof. Dr. Erol Eğrioğlu's world ranking is 266784 and Turkey's ranking is 629 according to the composite score. Prof. Dr. Erol Eğrioğlu's ranking among 253,359 artificial intelligence researchers in the world was 4,094.