Yusuf Altintas

Yusuf Altintas is the NSERC – Pratt & Whitney Canada – Sandvik Coromant Industrial Chair Professor in Virtual Machining, founding director of Fraunhofer project in digital transformation in manufacturing, founding director of Mechatronics option and Distinguished Scholar at the University of British Columbia, and chief editor of CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology.

Professor Altintas obtained his Bachelor from Istanbul Technical University (1975), M.Sc. (1980) from the University of New Brunswick and Ph.D. (1987) from McMaster University in Canada. He worked as a machine tool manufacturing engineer in Turkey (1977-1978), process development engineer in Pratt & Whitney Canada in Montreal (1980-1981), and the principal engineer of the Canadian Institute of Metalworking at McMaster University in Hamilton (1981-1982). He joined the University of British Columbia and founded Manufacturing Automation Laboratory in 1986. He conducts research on metal cutting, machine tool vibrations, control, and virtual machining. He has published over 210 archival journal and 100 conference articles with about ~37,200 citations and h index of 99 (Google Scholar profile), and a widely used textbook “Manufacturing Automation: Principals of Metal Cutting Mechanics, Machine Tool Vibrations and CNC Design. 1st ed. 2000, 2nd ed.:2012 with Chinese (2003) and Turkish (2017) Editions. His research laboratory created advanced machining process simulation (CUTPRO), virtual part machining process simulation (MACHPRO) and open-modular 5 axis CNC system (Virtual CNC), which are used by over 300 companies and research centers in the field of machining and machine tools worldwide.

Professor Altintas is a fellow of Royal Society of Canada, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) – USA, National Academy of Science and Engineering (ACATECH), CIRP, ASME, SME, CAE, EC, Tokyo University, P&WC, AvH and ISNM. He received Pratt & Whitney Canada’s (P&WC) university partnership (1997), APEG BC’s Meritorious Achievement (2002), APEG BC R.H. McLachlan (2010), UBC Killam Teaching Prize of Engineering (2011), Gold Medal of Engineers Canada (2011), SME Albert M. Sergent Progress Award (2012), NSERC Synergy Award, ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage best journal paper award, the special scientific award of Republic of Turkey in Science and Engineering (2013), Georg Schlesinger Production Engineering Award (Berlin, 2016), and ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award (USA, 2016). He holds an Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Stuttgart University (2009) and Budapest University of Technology (2013), and holds Honorary Professor title from BEIHANG University in Beijing. He was the past president of CIRP (International Academy of Production Engineering Researchers) for the term 2016 – 2017. He is also the founding president of MAL Manufacturing Automation Lab. Inc. which develops virtual machining technology.