WORK EXPERIENCE

2020-Present

Director

Istanbul Technical University

Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AI2S) Laboratory

2018- Present

Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Istanbul Technical University

Department of Control and Automation Engineering

2017- 2020

Vice Dean

Istanbul Technical University

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2016-2017

Visiting Prof.

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2014-2018

Asst. Prof. Dr.

Istanbul Technical University

Department of Control and Automation Engineering

2015-2019

Director

Istanbul Technical University

ABB Process Control and Automation Laboratory

2010-2015

Co-Director

Istanbul Technical University

ABB Process Control and Automation Laboratory

2012-2014

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Istanbul Technical University

Department of Control and Automation Engineering

2012-2013

Post-Doctoral Researcher

University of Essex

Computational Intelligence Centre

2010-2011

Visiting Researcher

Dresden Technical University

Department of Distributed Process Control

2007-2012

Research & Teaching Assistant

Istanbul Technical University

Department of Control and Automation Engineering

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

AWARDS AND HONORS

·       Recipient of the ODTÜ Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award, 2020.

·       Best paper Award in the 6th International Conference on Control Engineering & Information Technology, for my paper entitled “FOLLY: A Self Foldable and Self Deployable Autonomous Quadcopter”, 2018.

·       Acted as a Supervisor for an undergraduate thesis, conducted by Aslıhan Ardic, which was awarded with the 3rd Best Undergraduate Thesis Award by Elektrik Mühendisleri Odası (EMO), 2017.

·       Best paper Award in the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems for my single authored paper entitled “Revisiting KM Algorithms: A Linear Programming Approach”, 2015.

·       Acted as a Supervisor for an undergraduate thesis, conducted by Akin Ilker Savran and Aykut Beke, which was awarded with the Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2015 by Elektrik Tesisat Mühendisleri Dernegi (ETMD), 2015.

·       Awarded with a Post-Doctoral Scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2012-2013.

·       Awarded by TUBITAK with Publication Encouragement Awards for sustained performance in publishing papers in top international journals, 2008-2020.

·       Awarded by Istanbul Technical University with Publication Encouragement Awards for sustained performance in publishing papers in top international journals, 2008-2020.

·       Awarded with a Graduate Scholarship by TUBITAK for my outstanding Undergraduate studies, 2006-2008.

 

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Activities

1.   Vice Chair (2018-present), Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee (DMTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IEEE.

Editorial Activities

1.     Area Editor (2018-present), International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 

2.     Associate Editor (2018- present), IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems

3.     Guest Editor (2017), Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineerıng & Computer Sciences

Peer- Review Journal Activities

1.     Advanced Engineering Informatics

2.     Ain Shams Engineering Journal

3.     Applied Mathematical Modelling

4.     Applied Soft Computing

5.     Cognitive Systems Research

6.     Data Science and Engineering

7.     Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

8.     Evolving Systems

9.     Fuzzy Sets and Systems

10.  IEEE Access

11.  IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

12.  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

13.  IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems

14.  IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics

15.  IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics

16.  IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

17.  IEEE Transactions on IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems

18.  IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

19.  Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing

20.  International Journal Engineering Science and Technology

21.  International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

22.  International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

23.  International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

24.  International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control

25.  International Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation

26.  International Journal of Mathematical Sciences

27.  International Journal of Robotics and Automation

28.  Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems

29.  ISA Transactions

30.  Istanbul University - Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

31.  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

32.  Journal of Applied Mathematics

33.  Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

34.  Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

35.  Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

36.  Journal of Intelligent Systems

37.  Journal of Systems and Control Engineering

38.  Journal of Water Process Engineering

39.  Measurement and Control

40.  Neural Computing and Applications

41.  Pamukkale University-Journal of Engineering Sciences

42.  Scientia Iranica

43.  Soft Computing

44.  The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

45.  The Computer Science Journal

46.  Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

47.  Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineerıng & Computer Sciences

 

Peer- Review Conference Activities

  1. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2017, FUZZ 2017, Naples, Italy.
  2. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2017, CDC 2017, Melburne, Australia.
  3. International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CODIT 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
  4. IEEE Technologies for Smart Nation, IEEE TENCON 2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
  5. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2016, Santa Clara-CA, USA
  6. 8th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2016, ICACI 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  7. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2015, FUZZ 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
  8. IEEE 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2015, IECON 2015, Yokohama, Japan.
  9. The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2015, ICACI 2015, Fujian-China.
  10. 6th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference 2014, CEEC 2014, Essex, United Kingdom.
  11. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014, WCCI 2014, Beijing, China.
  12. The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications 2014, AMLTA 2014, Cairo, Egypt.
  13. International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2014, ICECE 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  14. International Conference on Behavior, Economic and Social Computing 2014, BESC 2014, Shanghai, China.
  15. Turkish National Meeting on Automatic Control 2012, TOK 2012, Nigde, Turkey.
  16. International Conference on Mechatronics 2011, ICM 2011, Istanbul-Turkey.
  17. Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing 2010, ALCOSP 2010, Alanya-Turkey.

National and International Conference Activities

  1. Publication Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2017, FUZZ 2017.
  2. Co-Chair of the Special Session entitled “Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2017, FUZZ 2017.
  3. PC member, International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CODIT 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
  4. Co-Chair of the Special Session entitled “Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2016, FUZZ 2016.
  5. PC member, 8th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2016, ICACI 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  6. Panel Session Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2015, FUZZ 2015.
  7. Co-Chair of the Special Session entitled “Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2015, FUZZ 2015.
  8. Panellist of the Panel entitled “Fuzzy Logic Control: Past, Present and Future”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2015, FUZZ 2015.
  9. TPC member, the 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference 2015, CEEC 2015.
  10. PC member, The 7th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2015, ICACI 2015.
  11. PC member, Turkish National Meeting on Automatic Control 2015, TOK 2015.
  12. PC member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014, WCCI 2014.
  13. Co-Chair of the Special Session entitled “Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014, WCCI 2014.
  14. IPC member, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision 2015, ICIEV 2014.
  15. IPC member, International Conference on Smart City 2014, ICSC 2014.
  16. PC member, International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing 2014, BESC 2014.
  17. PC member, Turkish National Meeting on Automatic Control 2012, TOK 2012.
  18. PC member, Turkish National Meeting on Automatic Control 2008, TOK 2008.

 

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