Author: Okyay Kaynak

Doctor Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. In 2010, he has held a 9-month visiting student position at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Control and Electrical Engineering Department, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran. His current research interests are sliding-mode control, adaptive controller design, fuzzy systems and intelligent optimization.  Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. (first-class honors) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, U.K., in 1969 and 1972, respectively. From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is presently an Emeritus Professor. He also holds a “1000 Talents Program” Professor title at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China. He has hold long-term (near to or more than a year) Visiting Professor/Scholar positions at various institutions in Japan, Germany, U.S., Singapore, and China. His current main research interest is in the broad field of intelligent control. He has authored three books and edited five and authored or coauthored more than 400 papers that have appeared in various journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has been in the editorial boards of several journals. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal; Discover Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, the Springer volume “Recent Advances in Sliding Modes: From Control to Intelligent Mechatronics” is dedicated to him to commemorate his lifetime impactful research and scholarly achievements and outstanding services to profession. Dr. Kaynak is a fellow of IEEE. He has served on many committees of IEEE and was the president of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society during 2002-2003.. Erdal Kayacan received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2011. After finishing his postdoctoral research in KU Leuven at the division of mechatronics, biostatistics and sensors (Me Bio S) in 2014, he worked in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as Assistant Professor for four years. Currently, he is pursuing his research at Aarhus University at the Department of Engineering as Associate Professor. He has since published more than 110 peer-refereed book chapters, journal and conference papers in model-based and model-free control, parameter and state estimation, and their robotics applications.  He has completed a number of research projects which have focused on the design and development of ground and aerial robotic systems, vision-based control techniques and artificialintelligence. Dr. Kayacan is the co-writer of a course book “Fuzzy Neural Networks for Real Time Control Applications, 1st Edition Concepts, Modeling and Algorithms for Fast Learning.”He is Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Since 1st January 2017, he is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics.