Yildiray Yildiz

Biography

Yildiray Yildiz is an assistant professor and director of the Systems Lab at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He received the B.S. degree (valedictorian) in mechanical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002; the M.S. degree in mechatronics engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2004; and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with a mathematics minor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 2009. He held postdoctoral associate and associate scientist positions with NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, from 2009 to 2010, and he was employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, through its University Affiliated Research Center from 2010 to 2014. He is the recipient of the ASME Best Student Paper in Conference award (2008), the NASA Group Achievement Award (2012) for outstanding technology development of the CAPIO system at the Vertical Motion Simulator supporting NASA’s Green Aviation Initiative, and the Turkish Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (2017). He was a member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee from 2010 to 2013. He has been an IEEE Conference Editorial Board associate editor since 2015 and an associate editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine since 2016. His research interests include adaptive control, time-delay systems, applications of game theory, applications of reinforcement learning, automotive control, and aerospace control.