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Education

Ph.D. 2006-2013 Bogazici University - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
M.Sc. 2001-2004 METU - Cognitive Science
B.Sc. 1997-2001 METU - Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. Thesis

"Place Recognition With An Attentive Robot ", Bogazici University, 2013.
Supervisor: Prof. Isil Bozma

M.Sc. Thesis

"An Eye Movement Analysis Of Chess Players Across Levels Of Expertise: An Electrooculography Study", Middle East Technical University, 2004.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Suha Yagcioglu

MSc Supervised

  • "Agile Flight in Dynamic Environments: Bridging Reinforcement and Imitation Learning" by Ahmet Gazi Çiftçi, 2024, Master of Science in Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University, codes: https://github.com/Ag05ccc/agile_flight
  • "Curriculum Learning for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments with Uncertainties" by Devran Doğan, 2024, Master of Science in Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University
  • "Federated Learning with Uncertainty for Different Tasks" by Yekta Olgun Özer, 2024, Master of Science in Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University
  • YOLO-Based Panoptic Segmentation by Manuel Alejandro Diaz-Zapata 2020, Submitted to MOSIG, University of Grenoble-Alpes
  • Mahmut Ferit YILDIZ, 2025, “Otonom Araçlarda Aktarmalı Öğrenme Kullanarak Anomali Tespiti Yapılması”, Gazi Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Müh.
  • Domain adaptation for cross-sensor 3D object detection on point-clouds by Vladislav Shlenskii 2020, Submitted to Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Grenoble-Alpes

BSc Supervised

  • Active Object Tracking and Autonomous Positioning Using Duckiedrone: A Comprehensive Two-Part Approach, 2025, Hikmet Mete Çelik, Abdullah Enes Yaman, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, website DuckieDrone codes
  • Obstacle Avoidance and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Drone Navigation, 2025, Berkehan Orhon, Eda Yüce, Buğra Tektepe, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, website DuckieDrone codes DuckieBot codes
  • SLAM for Indoor Localization and Mapping on a Drone, 2025, Ahmet Tunca Taşkın, Pınar Bektaş, Ecem Selin Demir, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, website codes
  • "Active Object Tracking on a Drone", Esad Boran, Yusuf Koca, Mustafa Emir Peker, 2024, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, codes
  • "RoboVoyager", Aysu Aylin Kaplan, Duygu Sena Öztürk, Emir Masinovic, 2024, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, website , codes
  • "Algorithm Implementation on a Real Mobile Robot" by Muhammet Ali ŞENTÜRK, Şafak Galip GÜNEŞ, Velican ÖZKAYA, Ali Utku AYDIN, 2024, submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University, website , codes
  • "Algorithm Implementation on a Real Mobile Robot" by Kaan Tunçer, Yunus Emre Yazıcı, Tuana Çetinkaya 2023 submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University codes | website
  • "Learn To Race" by İlker Emre KOÇ, Selçuk YILMAZ, Buğrahan HALICI, İrem Atak 2023 submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University codes | website
  • "Active Object Tracking via Simulation" by Batuhan Ayvaz, Bekir Semih Tekeli, Batuhan Orhon 2022 submitted to Department of Computer Science, Hacettepe University codes
  • Gaze Estimation in Video by Mathias Mitterdorfer 2015 submitted to Department of Computer Science, Innsbruck University

PhD Co-Supervised

  • Erkan Milli, 2025, Otonom Araç Sürüşünde Kamera-Lidar Füzyonu Tabanlı Yol Tespiti, Ankara Üniversity, Electric-Electronical Eng. Department

    • Courses Given

    Research Interests

    • Autonomous Vehicles Perception
    • Robot Vision
    • Semantic Segmentation
    • Object Pose Estimation
    • Task Verification
    • Place Recognition
    • Localization
    • Attentive Active Vision
    • Scene Classification
    • Object Recognition
    • Multimodal Sensor Integration

    Courses Assisted

    • EE 101 Orientation to Electrical Engineering
    • EE 210 Introduction to Electrical Engineering
    • EE 242 Numerical Methods for Electrical Engin.
    • EE 304 Energy Conversion
    • EE 450 Control Technology & Design
    • EE 451 Introduction to Robot Control
    • EE 573 Pattern Recognition
    • EE 576 Machine Vision
    • EE 577 Statistical Signal Analysis