I received my BS degree from Middle East Technical University in 1999, my MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2003, and finally my PhD degree from University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 2009, all in mechanical engineering. During my PhD, I worked as a research assistant for Prof. Christopher Niezrecki in the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Lab . My PhD thesis was on enhancement of very weak underwater acoustic signals with applications to marine mammals. Before getting my PhD, I
At the beginning of my tenure at Bahçeşehir University, I established the robotics program in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering. With the launch of the Stanford–BAU Robotics Lab in 2014, I was appointed as the director of this lab. I spent 6 months at Prof. Oussama Khatib’s Robotics Lab at Stanford University in 2014 as a visiting assistant professor. My current research interests are mainly focused on dynamics and control of robots, underwater robotics, and soft robots.
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