Prof. Dr. Okyay Kaynak
Prof. Dr. Okyay Kaynak

Fellow Member of IEEE
UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics

Work Address: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bogazici University, Bebek, 80815 Istanbul / Turkey
Phone: +90-212-287 2475 Fax: 90-212-287 24 65
Home Address: Selamicesme, Guzel Sok. No:4/15, Goztepe, 81030 Istanbul / Turkey
Phone: +90-216-368 6688
E-Mail: o.kaynak_at_ieee.org

Short Biography

Employment History
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Positions Held

Administrative Positions Held

Fellowships

Projects Directed

Long Term Academic
Visits Abroad

Awards & Honors

List of Publications

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Other Professional Activities

I. Activities in professional organizations

  • Member of IEEE RAB/TAB Section/Chapter Support Committee (2005 – ……….)
  • Member of Member of IEEE Teaching Award Committee (2004 – 2006)
  • Member of IEEE Fellow Committee (2004 – ……….)
  • Vice-President (Conferences of IEEE Neural Networks Society, (Jan. 2004 – ……….)
  • President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2003)
  • AdCom Member of IEEE Neural Networks Society, (Jan. 2002 – ………….)
  • AdCom Member of IEEE Education Society, (Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2003)
  • President Elect of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2001)
  • Vice President (Administration) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Jan. 1998 – Dec. 1999)
  • Vice President (Technical Activities) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1997)
  • Vice President (Publication) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Jan. 1994 - Dec. 1995)
  • Administration Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (Nov. 1990 - ......)
  • Chairman of Technical Committee on Emerging Technologies, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (May 1991 - May 1996)


II. Activities related to international conferences

  • Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'2004, 6-9 Nov. 2004, Busan, Korea
  • General Chair of 12th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation: MED'04 (June 6-9, 2004, Kusadasi, Izmir, Turkey)
  • General Chair of International Conference on Mechatronics:ICM'04 (June 3-5, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • General Chair of 5th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training: ITHET 2004 (May 31-June 2, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics- ISIE 2003 (June 9-12, 2003, Rio de Janerio, Brazil)
  • General Chair of International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress, IFSA 2003 (29 June - 2 July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • General Chair of Joint 13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and 10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing- ICANN/ICONIP 2003 (26-29 June 2003, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • General Chair of IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, CCA 2003 (23-25 June 2003, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Vice Co-Chair of 3rd Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2002 (Budapest, Hungary, July 4-6, 2002)
  • General Chair of Int. Conf. on Information Technology in Mechatronics - ITM 2002 (Istanbul, Oct. 3-5, 2001)
  • Vice Co-Chair of 2nd Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2001 (Kumamoto, Japan, July 4-6, 2001)
  • General Chair of Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2000 (Istanbul, July 3-5, 2000)
  • Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics: ISIE'99 (Bled, Slovenia, July 12-16, 1999) and ISIE'97 - (Guimaraes, Portugal, July 7-11, 1997)
  • General Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposiums on Industrial Electronics: ISIE'95 (Athens, July 10-14, 1995) and ISIE'93 (Budapest, June 1-3, 1993)
  • General Chair of Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Mechatronics - ICRAM'99 (Istanbul, May 24-26, 1999) and ICRAM'95, (Istanbul, August 14-16, 1995)
  • Director of NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Soft Computing and Its Applications," held in Antalya, Turkey, during August 21-31 1996.
  • General Co-Chair of Int. Conf. on Technology Management: University/Industry/Science Partnership, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during June 24-26, 1996
  • Computational Intelligence Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'2001
  • Mechatronics Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'2000
  • Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'98
  • Emerging Technologies Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'97, IECON'96, IECON'95, IECON'94 and IECON'93
  • Director of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Intelligent Systems: Safety, Reliability and Maintainability Issues," August 24-27, 1992, Kusadasi, Turkey
  • Executive Chair of "International Biomedical Engineering Days" August 18-20, 1992, Istanbul, Turkey
  • General Chair and Organizer of IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control, August 20-22, 1990, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Has served on , Adisory, Organizing and/or International Program Committees of numerous international meetings

III. Activities related to international journals

  • Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2005-….)
  • Guest Editor of International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Learning in Intelligent Systems, 2003
  • Guest Editor (with Yavuz Akpinar) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on ITHET 2000 – Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, v. 15, no: 2, April 2001
  • Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Computationally Intelligent Methodologies and Sliding-Mode Control, v. 48, no: 1, Feb. 2001
  • Guest Editor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Mechatronics, vol. 19, no: 2, Dec. 1996
  • Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Mechatronics, vol. 43, no: 1, February 1996.
  • Guest Editor (with Gunduz Ulusoy) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on Technology Management: University-Industry-Government Collaboration, v. 10, no: 6, December 1996
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2002 -....)
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1995 -....)
  • Member of Management Committee of IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Jan.. 1995 – Dec. 1998, Jan. 2001-…..)
  • Member of Editorial Board of the KAIST Press journal; Neural Information Processing – Letters and Reviews (May 2003 - ….)
  • Member of Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal; International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (Oct.. 2001 - ….)
  • Member of Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal; Applied Soft Computing (Jan. 2001 - ….)
  • Member of Editorial Board of Asian Jornal of Control (Jan. 2001 - ….)
  • Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence (1997 -....)
  • Member of Advisory Board of the Journal on Industry & Higher Education (1996 -....)
  • Member of Editorial Board of IEEE Spectrum (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1998)
  • Occasionally referees papers for
    • Automatica
    • IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems
    • IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
    • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
    • Int. J. of Control
    • Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
    • Computers & Electrical Engineering
    • Int. J. of Systems Science
    • Many others

IV. Invited presentations

  • Will present a plenary talk at The First International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 22-23, 2006.
  • Will present a plenary talk at 1st International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aerospace and Astronautics: ISSCAA 2006, Jan. 19-21, 2006, Harbin, China.
  • Will present a plenary talk at International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation - CIMCA'2005, Nov. 28-30, Vienna - Austria.
  • Presented an invited “research lecture” at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (one of the research institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research: A*STAR), titled, “Industrial Informatics in 21st Century” on August 15, 2005.
  • Presented a tutorial during the International Syposium on Neural networks (ISNN 2005), Chongqing, China, May 30-June 2, 2005.
  • Presented a seminar as an ARRI Distinguished Lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington, USA titled “Mechatronics in 21st Century” on February 27, 2004.
  • Presented an invited seminar at Auburn University, Alabama, USA titled “Mechatronics in 21st Century” on February 27, 2004.
  • Presented two seminars on mechatronics and VSS thory based learning at Tebriz University, Iran during December 2-5, 2004.
  • Presented a plenary talk during the Joint 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems - SCIS & ISIS 2004, titled “Intelligent Systems: An Assesment of the Past and the Prospects for the Future,” September, 21-24, 2004, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Presented a plenary talk during the 6th IASTED Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control – ISC 2004, titled “Evolution of Intelligent Systems,” August 23-25, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  • Presented a plenary talk during the First AUS (American Universty of Sharjah) International Symposium on Mechatronics, titled “Mechatronics in 21st Century,” May 25-27, 2004, Sharja, UAE.
  • Presented a keynote speech during the opening session of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics: ISIE 2004, titled “Industrial Electronics in the 21st Century,” May 4-7, 2004, Ajaccio, France.
  • Presented an invited lecture, titled “Mechatronics in 21st Century” at Pusan National University, Pusan, Rep. of Korea, on Sept. 24, 2003.
  • Presented invited lectures and seminars on “Variable Structure Systems Theory and its Applications in Intelligent Systems” at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, during Sept. 15-20, 2003.
  • Presented a tutorial during 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2003; June 9-12, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Presented a keynote speech during 2002 IEEE Conference on Industrial Technology, titled “Mechatronics in the 21st Century” Dec. 11-14, 2002, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Presented invited lectures and seminars on “Responding to Issues and Trends in Mechatronics in the 21st Century” at AMA Computer University, Manilla, Phillipines, during Sept. 23-24, 2002.
  • Presented a tutorial during the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2002, August 27-31 2002 , Madrid, Spain.
  • Presented a tutorial during The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: IECON’01, Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2001, Denver, USA.
  • Presented an invited talk during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation, Oct. 22-24, 2001, Siena, Italy.
  • Presented an invited talk during the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training 2001: ITHET 2001, July 4-6, 2001, Kumamoto City, Japan.
  • Presented a keynote talk during the First International Conference on Mechatronics – ICOM’01; 11-12 February 2001, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
  • Presented a tutorial during the IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON 2000, 22-28 October 2000, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Presented a plenary talk during the 2000 International Symposium on Mechatronics and Intelligent Mechanical System for 21 Century (ISIM2000), 4-6 October 2000, KyongSangNam-Do, South Korea.
  • Directed a workshop during the IEEE 25th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'99, 29 Nov. – 3 December 1999, San Jose, U.S.A.
  • Presented a plenary (opening) talk during the Jubilee Conference of Banki Donat Polytechnic, 1-3 September 1999, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Presented a tutorial during the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'99), 12-16 July, 1999, Bled, Slovenia.
  • Presented a tutorial during the IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'98, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, 1998, Aachen, Germany.
  • Presented a public lecture on invitation from National University Singapore, during the Singapore Robotics Games '98, on 22 May 1998
  • Presented the keynote address during the IEEE 23rd Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'97, Nov. 10-14, 1997, New Orleans, USA.
  • Presented an invited paper during the Spring Conference of Korean Mechanical Engineers, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, April 18, 1996.
  • Presented an invited paper during IEEE Int. Workshop on Neuro-Fuzzy Control, Muroran, Japan, March 22-23, 1993.
  • Presented an invited paper during IEEE Int. Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, AMC '92, Nagoya, Japan, March 15-18, 1992.


V. External Examinations

  • Promotion documents of Dr. Emad Said Addasi and Dr. Mohammed Abu Zalata of Al Balqa Applied University, Jordan.
  • M. Sc. Thesis, Design and Implementation of Real-time Neural Control Systems by Sarah Pule, University of Malta, Malta, 2005.
  • Ph. D. Thesis, Development of Learning Control Algorithms by Zhao Shao, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005.
  • M. Sc. Thesis, High Precision Optimum Control of a Linear Motor Drive Using Genetic Algorithm, by Keck Meng Teck, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2000
  • Ph. D. Thesis, Control of Planar Flexible-Link Robots, by Yang Hong, National University of Singapore, 1999
  • M. Sc. Thesis, The Design and Building of a 4-Legged Walking Machine, by Cheong Choon Ghee, National University of Singapore, 1998
  • M. Sc. Thesis, Trajectory Following of a Robotic Manipulator, by Ding Ming Zohn, National University of Singapore, 1998
  • Ph. D. Thesis, Actuation Redundancy Control of 2 Co-operating Industrial Robots, by Dilek Bilgin Tukel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1997
  • Ph. D. Thesis, Unconventional Control of Industriaql Energetic Processes of Large Scale Heating Furnaces, by Milne Stankovski, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Rep. of Macedonia, 1997