Arizona State University
M.S., Robotics & Autonomous Systems (Systems Engineering) · Aug 2024 – Present
Tempe, AZ, USA
News
- Our Search and Rescue Robot Dog project is on ASU news: Read the article.
- Started MEMOR-E: an assistive Unitree Go2 platform for Alzheimer’s HRI (tablet head + VLM intent).
- Joined ASU as an MS student in Robotics & Autonomous Systems (Systems Engineering).
- Graduated B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Medipol, 100% scholarship).
Education
Istanbul Medipol University
B.Sc., Electrical & Electronics Engineering (English, 100% Scholarship) · Sep 2019 – Jun 2024
Istanbul, Türkiye
Selected Projects
Language-Based Robot Navigation (2024)
Humanoid robot executes multi-language S2T commands via LLMs; integrated 2D LiDAR and stereo depth for autonomous navigation and scene understanding.
LLM with Robot Navigation (2023)
Robot voice control using GPT-4 at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM; final internship project.
Detection of Dental Filling Quality (2022–2023)
AI on dental X-rays (mAP50 ≈ 0.70) as part of Medipol EndoAI group.
Map Merging in Multiple Robots (2021–2022)
Swarm robotics map fusion; funded by TÜBİTAK 2209A.
Agriculture Drone (2020–2021)
UAV with Faster R-CNN / YOLOv4 for harvest prediction & crop disease detection.
SLAM UGV (2019–2021)
Ground robot with SLAM; Medipol Robotics & Perception group.
VIO Drone (2019–2020)
VIO flights in GPS-denied environments; Medipol Robotics & Perception group.
Experience
Baykar Makina
High School Intern, Software · Jan 2018 – Aug 2018
Embedded systems for UAVs; internship invited by Selçuk Bayraktar.
IEEE Medipol Student Branch
Chairman · Sep 2022 – Present
Led engineering branch; organized technical & social events.
TÜBİTAK
Intern Researcher
STAR (Feb–Aug 2021): Object detection & deep learning.
BİLGEM Robotics (Jul–Aug 2023): Sequential model-based robots.
Türkiye Technology Team Foundation
Volunteer Scholar · Feb 2021 – Nov 2022
Served in TEKNOFEST departments; Rising Star Scholarship winner.
İrtifa Team
Team Leader · Nov 2019 – Aug 2020
Led TÜBİTAK UAV competition team (embedded & vision).
Medipol Autonomous Vehicles
Team Leader · Aug 2020 – Apr 2022
Finalist at 2021 TEKNOFEST UAV; autonomous UAVs with deep learning.
Research & Publications
MEMOR-E: Alzheimer’s Assistive Robodog (Project/Preprint)
OpenReview submission, 2025