Yasin Kütük

Yasin Kutuk is an Associate Professor in Business at Gebze Technical University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Istanbul Technical University with a dissertation entitled "Essays on Estimation Methods: Three Comparative Essays on Econometrics and Machine Learning." He mainly specializes in computational social science (CSS), covering deep learning, natural language processing, applied/theoretical econometrics, statistics and also publishes in CSS. He has taught these for five years at Altinbas University and continues in Gebze Technical University. He has completed one international (EU) and eight national projects (TUBITAK). He won four prizes, including Graduate Thesis Award by the Turkish Economics Association, the Ibn KHALDUN Prize by the Middle East Economics Association, the Asaf Savaş AKAT Economics Prize by Iktisat ve Toplum Dergisi (Economics and Society Review), and the Academics Prize by Turkish Researchers' Association. In 2022 and 2023, he was awarded the performance award of Outstanding Academic Excellence at Altınbaş University, where he was working. He has published several articles in Finance Research Letters, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Empirical Economics, Borsa Istanbul Review, and Social Science Quarterly. His commitment to academic excellence and research is further exemplified by his membership in the Econometric Society,the Middle East Economics Association, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics, where he collaborates with fellow professionals in advancing the frontiers of economic knowledge and its practical applications.