About Me
I am a Robotics R&D Engineer and Ph.D. Researcher at Embry-Riddle, specializing in Uncertainty Quantification for safety-critical autonomy.
Unlike a traditional academic, I bring 3.5 years of field experience shipping autonomous truck and drone systems at a national research center (TUBITAK), where I led deployments for major industrial partners like Ford OTOSAN.
Top 0.01% National Rank (292 / 2.5 Million)
Experience & Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering
2025–PresEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL, USA
Full tuition waiver. Developing uncertainty-aware deep learning frameworks for robotic perception.
Robotics Engineer (Technical Lead Role)
2021–2024TUBITAK BILGEM, Turkey
Architected perception stacks for autonomous trucks (Ford OTOSAN partnership). Led technical roadmaps and managed EU-Horizon work packages (~100M€ consortiums).
M.Sc. Computer Engineering
2021–2024Bogazici University, Turkey
GPA: 4.0/4.0. Thesis on Occlusion-Aware Benchmarking.
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
2016–2021Bogazici University, Turkey
GPA: 3.21/4.0. Thesis on Adversarial Robustness in Deep Learning.
Selected Publications
Honors & Service
Projects
Rock Segmentation
Robust Perception for Mars Rovers: ROS2 package to segment rocks and extract surface characteristics.
Occlusion Index
Tool for 3D Human Pose and Shape (HPS) occlusion measurement.
Saliency Attack
Scoring-based black-box adversarial attack using PyTorch.
SMPL Blender
Rendering pipeline for SMPL human models.