Mustafa Uğuz was born in Turkey in 1981. He received a B.S. degree and M.Sc. from Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Ankara, Turkey. In his Ph.D. study, he has been at Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute. He has studied cybersecurity, cloud computing, ubiquitous computing, and smart grids. His Ph.D. thesis is about the smart grid transformation in Turkey.
Since 2004, he has been working for Arçelik as a Technical Leader. Mustafa Uğuz administered and managed several research programs and product development projects in academia and the private sector, funded by the Turkish State Agencies, TUBITAK, EU H2020, and Industry. He was assigned by TUBİTAK as a member of TUBİTAK Display Technologies Focus Expert Group.