Haluk Akay, PhD

Haluk Akay is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the principal investigator of the Deep Design Lab at TU Delft. His research develops tools and methods for AI-driven generative design, engineering knowledge preservation, and sustainable manufacturing. He is a 2026 Veni Laureate, awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to develop machine learning architectures specific to engineering design.Haluk holds a PhD and MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BSc from Carnegie Mellon University, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to TU Delft, Haluk was a Digital Futures Postdoc Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and has industry experience in product design.