Murat Tiryakioğlu received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He also obtained another Ph.D. degree in Materials and Metallurgy from the University of Birmingham. He is currently a Professor of Engineering at Jacksonville University. His research interests include process design for high-quality castings, aluminum heat treatment modeling and optimization, process-structure-property relationships in metals, statistical modeling, and quality and reliability improvement. He has published  two chapters, published over 100 refereed journal papers and 50 conference papers, edited 10 conference proceedings, and co-edited the two-volume Encyclopedia of Aluminum and Its Alloys. He is the inaugural recipient of the John Campbell medal and a fellow of the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers for his contributions to the science of metal casting.