Professional Activities

Professional Societies/Organizations

·         Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

·         Member of the Turkish National Committee of Automatic Control, the national branch of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), October 2008 – present.

·         Member of the RoboCup Turkish National Committee, July 2011 - present. 

 

Editorial Activities

·         Guest editor for ELEKTRİK (The Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) of a special issue on “Swarm Robotics,” July 2007.

·         M. Ö. Efe and V. Gazi (eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), November 2006, Ankara.

 

Conference and Workshop Activities

·         Associate Editor, International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) to be held within 2016 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2016.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS 2016), London, UK, November 2016.

·         Member of International Program Committee: IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS'16), Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2016.

·         Member of the Steering Committee: Second Turkish National Robotics Conference (ToRK 2015), Ankara, Turkey, November 2015.

·         Member of the Program Committee: The International Neural Network Society (INNS) Conference on Big Data (INNS-BigData’2015), San Francisco, USA, August 2015.

·         Local Organizations Co-Chair: 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2015), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2015.

·         Member of the Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), Vila Real, Portugal, April 2015.

·         Member of the Organizing Committee: First Turkish National Robotics Conference (ToRK 2014), Ankara, Turkey, November 2014.

·         Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2014.

·         Invited Sessions Co-Chair: Asian Control Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2013.

·         Registration Chair: IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2012.

·         Member of the Organizing Committee: RoboCup2011, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2010.

·         Member of the Program Committee: ANTS 2010 Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, September 2010.

·         Session Chair: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2009 (TOK09), Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2009.

·         Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2009 (TOK09), Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2009.

·         Associate Editor: 21’st Chinese Conference on Decision and Control (CCDC 2009), Guilin, Peoples Republic of China, June 2009.

·         Session Chair: The Second International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Odense, Denmark, April 2009.

·         Session Chair: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2008 (TOK08), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2008.

·         Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2008 (TOK08), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2008.

·         General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, July 2008.

·         Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2007 (TOK07), Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2007.

·         Organizer of the Special Session on Multi-Robot Systems: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2007 (TOK07), Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2007.

·         General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2007), Harbin, Peoples Republic of China, May 2007.

·         Member of the Program Committee: IEEE SMC UK&RI 6th Conference on Cybernetic Systems 2007, University College Dublin, Ireland, September 2007.

·         Member of the Program Committee: Workshop on Swarm Robotics organized in conjunction with  From Animals to Animats 9, Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06), September 2006, Roma, Italy.

·         Technical Program Co-Chair: 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, November 2006.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, November 2006.

·         General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, July 2006.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 13’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED05), Limassol, Cyprus, June 2005.

·         Publicity Co-Chair: 12’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED04), Kuşadası, Turkey, June 2004.

·         Member of the Program Committee: 12’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED04), Kuşadası, Turkey, June 2004.

·         Session Chair: IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.

·         Session Chair: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003.

·         Helped in organizing the OSU Controls Workshop, April 1997 and April 1999, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

 

Technical Publication Reviewer (Partial List)

·         IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

·         IEEE Transactions on Robotics

·         Automatica

·         IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

·         IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

·         SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

·         Systems and Control Letters

·         IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics

·         IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

·         IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

·         IEEE Control Systems Magazine

·         International Journal of Systems Science

·         International Journal of Control

·         International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

·         Fuzzy Sets and Systems

·         Physics Letters A

·         Swarm Intelligence

·         Asian Journal of Control

·         Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

·         ACM Computing Surveys

·         International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

·         IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

·         American Control Conference

·         European Control Conference

·         International Symposium on Intelligent Control

·         IEEE Conference on Control Applications

·         IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control

·         IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

·         IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

·         IFAC World Congress

 

Other Review Activities

·         Reviewer, NSF PIRE Program (USA), 2017.

·         External Reviewer, ERC Grants (EU) 2017.

·         Reviewer, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology, RTD Research Centers Program, January 2012. 

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, November 2011.

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, June 2011.

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, May 2010.

·         Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Technical Entrepreneurship Projects Program, February-March 2010.

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, December 2009.

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, April 2009.

·         Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Technical Entrepreneurship Projects Program, May 2009.

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, November 2008.

·         Project Progress Reviewer, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Industrial Thesis Research Projects Program, June 2008 - …

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, October 2007.

·         Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Industrial Thesis Research Projects Program, September 2007.

·         Project Initiation or Progress Reviewer, TÜBİTAK TEYDEB Program Industrial Projects, November 2006 - …

·         Project Progress Reviewer, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, December 2006-…

·         Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, October 2005.

 

Examination Committee/Jury Memberships

·         Served in several MS Defense Committees, Atılım University.

·         Served in many MS and PhD Defense Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering.

·         Served in many MS and PhD Defense Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

·         Served in many PhD Progress Evaluation Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

·         Served in many PhD Progress Evaluation Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

·         Serving in many PhD Qualifying Exam Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

·         Served in PhD Defense Committee, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, December 2007.

·         Served in PhD Defense Committee, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, April 2013.

·         Served as external examiner in PhD Defense Exam, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 2013.

·         Served in PhD Qualifying Exam Committee, Boğaziçi University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, December 2013.

·         Served in PhD Defense Committee, Boğaziçi University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, January 2014.

 

Other Activities

·         Served as Evaluation Panel Member, the 1’st and the 2’nd Robotic Contest organized by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Education, High School Technical Education Branch, 2007 and 2008.

·         National Expert, European Union 7’the Framework Programme, Information and Communication Technologies, 2007 – 2009.