Öz Yılmaz is the chief technology officer of GeoTomo LLC and the founder of Anatolian Geophysical.
[1][2] Born in Ardahan, Turkey, Yılmaz graduated from Haydarpasha Lyceum in Istanbul and went on to earn a BS in geology with geophysics option from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
His dissertation on prestack partial migration was a major contribution to seismic processing.
[2] Yılmaz started his career at the Turkish Petroleum Company between earning his MS and PhD.
[4] In 1987 Yılmaz published Seismic Data Processing through the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.