Yusuf Kaynak received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Marmara University, Istanbul. He received his Ph.D degree from University of Kentucky (USA) in 2013. He has been a Full Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering at Marmara University since 2020. He has been working on Manufacturing processes including Machining, Additive Manufacturing, Post-processing, Surface integrity.
He served as the Principal Investigator for the research projects funded by TUBITAK, TUBITAK-ARRS (Slovenia Research Agency), MU-Funded, TUBITAK-NASA Glenn Research Center, etc. He has served as Conference Chair, Special Session Chair, Co-Chair, Member of Steering Committee, Member of International Scientific Committee of the various International Scientific Conference and/or Symposium Organizations. He has been actively serving as a Reviewer for over 30 Scientific International Journals including well-known journals on manufacturing. He is a Deputy Technical Editor of the Machining Science and Technology: An International Journal.
He has published more than 80 research papers in refereed leading journals and conference proceedings in the area of Additive Manufacturing and machining during his academic career. He has contributed to many national and international conference/symposium/seminar by delivering invited speeches.
Professor Kaynak is the receipent of Turkish Academy of Sciences’ Outstanding Young Scientist award (TÜBA-GEBİP).
Professor Kaynak is the recipient of 100. Year (100th anniversary of Republic of Türkiye) TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) Incentive Award in the field of Manufacturing Engineering.