About Me
I am a Ph.D. student in Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle, focusing on robust perception and uncertainty quantification in unstructured planetary terrains. Previously, I was involved in perception stacks for major EU-HORIZON projects at TUBITAK BILGEM.
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 Researcher
2021–2024TUBITAK BILGEM, Turkey
Participated perception stack for 5+ EU-HORIZON projects (~100M€). Mentored 25+ engineers on ROS2/CV workflows.
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
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.