Youssef Kassem
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Youssef Kassem received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Near East University, TRNC, in 2009 and 2011. He pursued further studies in thermo-fluid mechanics at the same university, completing his graduate program in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Kassem served as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Near East University, progressing to the position of associate professor from 2020 to the present. In this period, 3 Ph.D. and 30 MSc. students graduated under his technical supervision. His research interests include designing an innovative renewable energy harvesting system for achieving sustainable solutions, modeling, and artificial intelligence applications. His research outcomes have been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and other internationally indexed journals, as well as in conference proceedings and books. He is on the editorial board of Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research. In 2024, Dr. Kassem was ranked among the top 2% of the most distinguished researchers worldwide, as reported by Stanford University