Yusuf Altintas, Professor at UBC, is internationally recognized as a leading engineering researcher in the field of machining. He has contributed significantly to literature, particularly his theory of kinematics and chatter vibration stability in milling. He has also published the book 'Manufacturing automation: Principles of Metal Cutting, Machine Tool Vibrations and CNC Design', Cambridge University Press 2000. He holds the prestigious NSERC/Pratt & Whitney Industrial research Chair in Virtual High-Performance Machining; he is the Fellow of ASME, SME and CIRP, and he is Founder and President of MAL Manufacturing Automation Laboratories Inc., the UBC spin-off company that markets and distributes practical applications of his state-of-the-art research to more than 90 companies world-wide.