Graduate Student Supervision

• Enes Koşar, M.S. student, September 2019-September 2022
  M.S. Thesis defended September 2022:
  ``A Memory Efficient Novel Deep Learning Architecture Enabling Diverse Feature Extraction on Wearable Motion Sensor Data''
  

• Aras Yurtman, M.S. and Ph.D. student, September 2010-April 2019
  Ph.D. Thesis defended April 2019:
  ``Activity Recognition Invariant to Position and Orientation of Wearable Motion Sensor Units''
  M.S. Thesis defended September 2012:
  ``Detection and Classification of Human Activities Using Wearable Sensors''
  (currently a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven, DTAI Research Group, CS Dept., Belgium)

• Mustafa Şahin Turan, M.S. student, September 2015-September 2017
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2017:
  ``Fall Detection and Classification Using Wearable Motion Sensors''
  (received his PhD from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2021)

• Görkem Seçer, M.S. student, September 2009-August 2012
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2012:
  ``Deterministic and Stochastic Error Modeling of Inertial Sensors and Magnetometers''
  (currently a post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University)

• Murat Cihan Yüksek, M.S. student, September 2008-August 2011
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2011:
  ``A Comparative Study on Human Activity Classification with Miniature Inertial and Magnetic Sensors''
  (currently working for Milsoft)

• Kerem Altun, Ph.D. student, September 2005-July 2011
  Ph.D. Thesis defended July 2011:
  ``Intelligent Sensing for Robot Mapping and Simultaneous Human Localization and Activity Recognition''
  (Currently an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Işık University; He was a post-doc at the University of British Columbia, Dept. of Computer Science, The Sensory Perception and Interaction (SPIN) Research Group)

• Bahaeddin Eravcı, M.S. student, September 2007-August 2010
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2010:
  ``Automatic Radar Antenna Scan Analysis in Electronic Warfare''
  (received his PhD at Bilkent Comp. Eng. Department in 2019; currently working at the company heqa.ai)

• Oğuzcan Dobrucalı, M.S. and Ph.D. student, September 2008-March 2017
  M.S. Thesis defended July 2010:
  ``A Novel Compression Algorithm Based on Sparse Sampling of 3-D Laser Range Scans''
  

• Orkun Tunçel, M.S. student, September 2006-August 2009
  M.S. Thesis defended July 2009:
  ``Human Activity Classification with Miniature Inertial Sensors''
  (working as a project manager for STM: Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş.)

• Mehmet Kök, M.S. student, September 2006-August 2008
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2008:
  ``Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles''
  (currently a PhD student at Vanderbilt University)

• M.S. and Ph.D. student, September 2000-January 2007
  Ph.D. Thesis defended December 2006:
  ``A Comparative Analysis of Different Approaches to Target Differentiation and Localization using Infrared Sensors''
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2002:
  ``Differentiation and Localization using Infrared Sensors''
  

• Çağrı Recep Yüzbaşıoğlu, M.S. student, September 2002-May 2006
  M.S. Thesis defended September 2004:
  ``Improved Range Estimation Using Simple Infrared Sensors without Prior Knowledge of Sensor Characteristics''
  (worked as an engineer for IBM in Paris and Korea, established his own company (ISSD) in Ankara in 2009)

• Arda Kurt, M.S. student, September 2003-August 2005
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2005:
  ``A Comparative Study of Five Algorithms for Processing Ultrasonic Arc Maps''
  (received a PhD degree and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Ohio State University (OSU). Currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of OSU.)

• Ali Bilgin, M.S. student, September 2001-September 2003
  M.S. Thesis defended August 2003:
  ``A Simulation Model of Indoor Environments for Ultrasonic Sensors''
  

• Birsel Ayrulu Erdem, M.S. and Ph.D. student, September 1994-June 2001
  Ph.D. Thesis defended June 2001:
  ``A Comparison of Different Approaches to Target Differentiation with Sonar''
  M.S. Thesis defended July 1996:
  ``Classification of Target Primitives with Sonar using two Nonparametric Data-Fusion Methods''
  (currently in France)

• Deniz Başkent, M.S. student, September 1996-July 1998
  M.S. Thesis defended July 1998:
  ``Surface Profile Determination from Multiple Sonar Data Using Morphological Processing''
  (completed her PhD at the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, USC, worked as a research scientist at Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., currently a full professor at University Medical Center, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Groningen, The Netherlands)

• Ali Şafak Sekmen, M.S. student, September 1995-July 1997
  M.S. Thesis defended July 1997:
  ``Radius of Curvature and Location Estimation of Cylindrical Objects with Sonar using a Multi-Sensor Configuration''
  (PhD received from the Center for Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, currently a full professor and the department chair at the Department of Computer Science at the Tennessee State University. He received a second Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 2012.)

• Saner Kurbay, M.S. student, September 1994-July 1997
  M.S. Thesis defended July 1997:
  ``Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with a Prototype Mobile Robot using Acoustic, Infrared, and Position Sensing''
  (currently Basic Products & Services Department Manager at Avea) %%%(currently an expert software engineer at Turkcell R&D, Istanbul)

• Ruşen Öktem (Güldoğan), M.S. Student, September 1994-July 1995
  left without completing the program,
  (PhD received from the Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, worked as an assistant professor at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey)