Dr. Koksal Erenturk was born in Erzurum, Turkey, in 1973. He received his B.S. degree (with honors) from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1994. He also received his M.S. degree from Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1997, and Ph.D. degree from Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, in 2002, all in electrical engineering.
Currently, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the College of Engineering at Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey. In the meantime, Prof. Dr. Erenturk also serves as the Head of the Department.
His work has focused on the development and application of control theory to a variety of mechatronic systems, with a focus on observation and estimation based control. Much of his recent work has focused on the analysis and control of dynamical systems that arise in engineering applications. His areas of interest also include fuzzy logic and fuzzy control, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and their applications to dynamic systems and electrical engineering.