Necmettin Kaya received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Bursa Uludağ University in 1999 with a dissertation on feature recognition from solid models and process plan generation. He is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bursa Uludağ University, where he teaches undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Computer Programming, Computer-Aided Design, Structural Optimization, and Introduction to the Finite Element Method. At the graduate level, he teaches optimization in engineering, computer graphics, and design for additive manufacturing. His main research areas include computer-aided design, finite element analysis, structural optimization, additive manufacturing, and machine learning. He currently serves as the Head of the Additive Manufacturing Graduate Program and supervises graduate-level research in this field. Dr. Kaya has participated in numerous national and international projects as a principal investigator or researcher, contributing to both academic knowledge and industrial innovation. He has authored and co-authored several papers published in SCI-indexed journals and has developed a patent that has been successfully transferred to industry. His work emphasizes the integration of computational design, optimization methods, and advanced manufacturing technologies, with a strong focus on practical engineering applications.