Dr YILDIRIM has received the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 from Erciyes University, Turkey. He has received his PhD degree in 1998 from System Engineering Department, Cardiff University, UK. He was established Mechatronic Engineering Department in 2005, Kayseri, Turkey. He is head of the Mechatronic Engineering Department and head of Foreign Relations Office of Erciyes University. He is lecturing the control theory, robotics, principles of mechatronic systems, neural network applications in engineering at Erciyes University, Turkey. He has been supervised some national and international projects such as mobile nurse robot design and control, active vehicle system design and control, 2 legged walking robot control. He has been reviewed more than 200 papers. He is also author of more than 150 journal, conference papers and book chapters. He is currently supervising more than 30 PhD and Msc students and edited 4 journals. His research area is consisted of Neural Network, Mechatronic Systems, Control Theory and Applications, Mobile and Industrial Robots, Vehicle Dynamics and Control.