Short Biography

Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. degree with first class honors and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1969 and 1972 respectively.

From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry that included 3.5 years in Saudi Arabia, working as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is presently a Full Professor. He has served as the Chairman of the Computer Engineering and the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departments and as the Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute at this university. Currently, he is the UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics and the Director of Mechatronics Research and Application Centre. He has hold long-term (near to or more than a year) Visiting Professor/Scholar positions at various institutions in Japan, Germany, U.S. and Singapore. His current research interests are in the fields of intelligent control and mechatronics. He has authored three books and edited five and authored or coauthored more than 200 papers that have appeared in various journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Kaynak is a fellow of IEEE. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. Currently he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Sensors Journal and the Area Editor (Robotics and Mechatronics) of the Springer journal; Soft Computing. Additionally he is on the Editorial or Advisory Boards of a number of scholarly journals.

Dr. Kaynak is active in internationally organizations, has served on many committees of IEEE and was the president of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society during 2002-2003.