Dilek Cetindamar is the Professor of Contemporary Technology Management at the School of Computer Science at UTS. Her main interest and research topics are Digital Transformations, Entrepreneurship, and Technology & Innovation Management. She serves in various prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, where she is the Senior Department Editor for the Technology Management track.

She received her B.S. degree from the Industrial Engineering Department at Bogazici University (BU) in Turkey, her MA degree from the Economics Department at BU, and her Ph.D. degree from the Management Department at Istanbul Technical University. She holds an "Entrepreneurship Certificate" from Harvard Business School and a "Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program Certificate" from MIT.

She served in various administrative roles. After being the Director of the Competitiveness Center from 2008-11, she was the founding Director of the SUCOOL Accelerator at Sabanci University, which she directed from 2012-17. She joined the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS in 2017 as the Director of Masters in Business and Technology. She has served as the Director of Techcelerator since 2021.

She is currently collaborating with her colleagues to understand the role of technology management tools in improving disaster management at the Center for Technology Management, of the University of Cambridge.