Korkut Kaynardag
My Research Areas
My research focuses on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT): the science of monitoring and testing structures to detect and characterize defects before they become failures. Because these fields rely heavily on vibration analysis, acoustic wave propagation, data analytics, and machine learning, my path also took me to industry, where I worked as an applied data scientist and a Senior AI Engineer on sound source tracking. The three documents on the right introduce my research topics, and I've also included a presentation that walks through my master's and PhD work in more depth.
Research documents
The educational sections (topics in the big picture menu)
You'll also find documents about the topics that I used extensively in the Big Picture menu on the left. I wrote them for newcomers who want the big picture: how these topics connect, and how to approach learning them, without diving into the equations and formalism of a textbook or lecture. They reflect my own path into this field, but everyone's path is different, so I'd encourage you to read a few other guides alongside these rather than relying on just one.