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Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Institute For Dynamic Systems And Control - Zürich/Switzerland

Implemented different modeling strategies for a differential drive robot. Modeling approaches utilized physical principles as well as a novel neural-network-based approach referred to as Equation Learner (EQL). EQL attempts to learn the functional relationship between the input-output data hence yielding a network that: (i) is interpretable, (ii) can explain the data outside its training domain.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Customized a web interface to a carbon-fiber printer for automatic documentation of the printing process. Co-created a software infrastructure for automatic g-code generation for carbon-fiber printing.

Autonomous Systems Laboratory - Zürich/Switzerland

Implemented a neural network-based motion planner for a drone. The planner generates reference trajectories based on depth measurements which would enable the drone to reach a target point while avoiding obstacles.

Institute For Dynamic Systems And Control - Zürich/Switzerland

Served as a Teaching Assistant for the "Autonomous Mobility on Demand" course offered by ETH Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. The course investigates the disciplines empowering autonomous-driving by adopting a hands-on approach. I mentored projects on automatic odometry calibration and CNN-based object detection.

Laboratory Of Composite Materials And Adaptive Structures - Zürich/Switzerland

Developed a simulation software for a 5-axis 3D carbon-fiber printer.

Institute For Automatic Control - Zürich/Switzerland

Designed and implemented a Gaussian Process-based modeling framework to address the issue of model parameter variations during autonomous-driving. Furthermore, the Gaussian Process-based model is integrated with the MPC controller.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Worked in "MRI Gradient Coil System for Micro Robotic Actuation" project. Performed:* Motion modeling of micro-robots in COMSOL * Motion planning of a micro-robot and MATLAB code implementation * Implementation of MATLAB codes for underlying physical equations

Dallas, Texas Area

Designed, manufactured and programmed an inertially actuated robot. Succeed to operate the robot and provided proof of concept for the desired actuation mechanism. Published results can be found at:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7556361/

Istanbul, Turkey

Operated SkyScanner 1172- a microtomography machine- in 3D Systems Design and Realization Research Lab, and carried out 3D scanning and analysis of medical materials.

Master, Robotics Systems And Control

Faculty Of Engineering And Natural Sciences, Mekatronik Mühendisliği

Activities and Societies: TEDxSabancıUniversity, Nanotechnology Club. Major: Mechatronics Engineering Minor: Mathematics

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Master'S Degree, Robotics, Systems And Control