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Short Biography





 

Mustafa Ünel

 

 

Associate Professor

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University

Orhanlı Tuzla 34956 İstanbul TURKEY

E-mail: munel_at_sabanciuniv.edu

Phone: +90-216-483 9549

Fax: +90-216-483 9550

 

 

Education

·         Ph.D. in Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 1999
Thesis Advisor: Prof. William A. Wolovich

·         M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 1998

·         M.S. in Systems and Control Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1996
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kemal Cılız

·         B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering,  Bogazici University, Istanbul, February 1994

 

Work Experience

·          Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

o   Associate Professor, 6/05 - ...

o   Assistant Professor,  9/04 - 5/05

o   Assistant Professor, 10/01 – 8/04 (Part-time)

·          Gebze Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering

o   Assistant Professor, 3/01 - 8/04

o   Director, 9/02 – 8/04 – Vision, Graphics and Human Computer Interaction Lab.

·          Yale University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

o   Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Computational Vision and Control, New Haven, CT, 9/99 - 1/01

·          Brown University, Department of Electrical Engineering

o   Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems, Providence, RI, 6/99 - 1/01

Research Interests

·          Vision

·          Control

·          Robotics

·          Microsystems

 

Publications (2005-2008)

 

Teaching

·          ENS 206: Systems Modeling and Control (Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007)

·          ME 303: Control Systems Design (Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

·          EE 528: Nonlinear Control Systems (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007)

·          EE 529: Vision Based Control (Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007)

·          EE 571: Linear Systems (Fall 2006, Spring 2008)

Courses Taught in the Past

·         EE589: Geometric Methods in Machine Vision (Bogazici University, Fall 2001)

·         EE524: Digital Control (Sabanci University, Spring 2002)

·         BM526: Advanced Topics in Discrete Mathematics (Gebze Institute of Technology, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003)

·         BM522: Computer Vision (Gebze Institute of Technology, Spring 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2002)

·         BM504: Robot Control (Gebze Institute of Technology, Spring 2002)

·         BM567: Geometric Modeling (Gebze Institute of Technology, Spring 2003)

·         MAT217: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (Gebze Institute of Technology, Fall 2003)

 

Projects

·         Mechanical Design, Prototyping and Flight Control of an Unmanned Autonomous Aerial Vehicle, TUBİTAK (01.10.2007-30.09.2010)

·         Novel Approaches in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, TUBİTAK (01.10.2007-30.09.2010)

·         Biped Robot, TUBİTAK (01.07.2006-30.06.2009)

·         Integrated Visual Servoing and Force Approach to Micro Object Manipulation, Sabanci University (01.10.2006-30.09.2008)

 

Current Students

·         Nusrettin Güleç (PhD, October 2005 - …)

·         Erol Özgür (PhD, October 2007 - …)

·         Ahmet Yasin Yazıcıoğlu (MS, October 2007 - …)

·         Kaan Taha Öner

·         (MS, October 2007 - …)

·         Mustafa Berkay Yılmaz (MS, October 2007 - …)

·         Hakan Bilen (MS, October 2006 - …)

·         Muhammet Ali Hocaoğlu (MS, October 2006 - …)

·         Yeşim Hümay Esin (MS, October 2006 - …)

 

Past Students

·         Erol Özgür (Sabancı University, 2007)

        MS Thesis Title: Model Free Visual Servoing in Macro and Micro Domain Robotic Applications

·         Eray Doğan (Sabancı University, 2006)

        MS Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of a Vision System for Microassembly Workstation

·         Nusrettin Güleç (Sabancı University, 2005)

        MS Thesis Title: Modeling and Control of the Coordinated Motion of a Group of Autonomous Mobile Robots

·         Sait Şener (Gebze Institute of Technology, 2004)

        MS Thesis Title: Affine Invariant Normalization and Modeling of 2D/3D Objects Using EFD Based Implicit Polynomials

·         Sema Candemir (Gebze Institute of Technology, 2004)

        MS Thesis Title: Character Recognition Using Closed-Bounded Algebraic Curves

·         Ömer Kayaaltı (Gebze Institute of Technology, 2003)

        MS Thesis Title: Decomposition of Implicit Polynomial Equations for Object Comparison and Recognition

·         Osman Kurt (Gebze Institute of Technology, 2003)

        MS Thesis Title: Determination of Affine Invariants of 2D Objects and Application to Object Recognition