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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

·         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

Applications of algebraic, geometric and probabilistic techniques to the broad range of problems in vision, control, robotics and microsystems.

·         Vision: Calibration, Tracking, Shape, Invariants, Recognition, Pose Estimation, Reconstruction, Event Detection

 

·         Control: Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems, Bilateral Control, Sliding Mode Control, Observers

 

·         Robotics: Visual Servoing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Coordination and Control of Multiple Autonomous Robots

 

·         Microsystems: Micromanipulation and Microassembly

 

Publications

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses:

·         ME 403: Introduction to Robotics (Fall 2008)

·         ME 303: Control Systems Design (Fall 2001, 02, 03, 04, 06, 07)

·         ENS 206: Systems Modeling and Control (Spring 2005, 06, 07)

 

Graduate Courses:

 

·         EE 524: Digital Control Systems (Spring 2002, 09)

·         EE 571: Linear Systems (Fall 2006, Spring 2008, 09)

·         EE 569: 3D Vision (Fall 2008)

·         EE 528: Nonlinear Control Systems (Spring 2004, 05, 07)

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

Courses Taught in the Past

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

·         BM526: Advanced Topics in Discrete Mathematics (Gebze Institute of Technology, Fall 2001, 02, 03)

·         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

·         Bilateral Control Systems with Time Delay Compensation, TUBITAK/NSF joint project (15.08.2008-14.08.2010)

·         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

PhD Students

 

Ertuğrul Çetinsoy

Hakan R. Avcı

 

MS Students

 

Ahmet Y. Yazıcıoğlu

Kaan T. Öner

Cevdet Hançer

Efe Sırımoğlu

Tuğba Leblebici 

Duruhan Özçelik

Mustafa B. Yılmaz

Alumni

·         Hakan Bilen (PhD student, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

Novel Estimation and Control Techniques in Micromanipulation Using Vision and Force Feedback, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2008.

 

·         Muhammet Ali Hocaoğlu (TUBITAK-MAM, Bilişim Teknolojileri Enstitüsü)

3D Reconstruction, Classification and Mechanical Characterization of Microstructures, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2008.

 

·         Yeşim Hümay Esin (GE Marmara Technology Center)

Formation Control of Multiple Mobile Robots using Parametric and Implicit Representations, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2008.

 

·         Sarp Satır (MS student, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Multi-camera Tracking of Fish in Aquarium, BS Graduation Project, Sabancı University, 2008.

 

·         Erol Özgür (PhD student, Blaise Pascal University, France)

Model Free Visual Servoing in Macro and Micro Domain Robotic Applications, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2007.

 

·         Eray Doğan (Ford Otosan)

Design and Implementation of a Vision System for Microassembly Workstation, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2006.

 

·         Nusrettin Güleç (O şimdi asker)

Modeling and Control of the Coordinated Motion of a Group of Autonomous Mobile Robots, MS Thesis, Sabancı University, 2005.

 

·         Fatih Mert Özkeskin (PhD student, University of Michigan)

Vision Control of a Direct Drive Robot, BS Graduation Project, Sabancı University, 2005.

 

·         Emrah Arslantürk (PhD student, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

Vision Control of a Direct Drive Robot, BS Graduation Project, Sabancı University, 2005.

 

·         Hüseyin Atakan Varol (PhD student, Vanderbilt University)

Ball Catching Direct Drive SCARA Robot, BS Graduation Project, Sabancı University, 2005.

 

·         Sait Şener (Nortel Netaş TeleKomünikasyon A.Ş.)

Affine Invariant Normalization and Modeling of 2D/3D Objects Using EFD Based Implicit Polynomials, MS Thesis, Gebze Institute of Technology, 2004.

 

·         Sema Candemir (PhD student, Gebze Institute of Technology)

Character Recognition Using Closed-Bounded Algebraic Curves, MS Thesis, Gebze Institute of Technology, 2004.

 

·         Ömer Kayaaltı (Faculty Member, Erciyes University)

Decomposition of Implicit Polynomial Equations for Object Comparison and Recognition, MS Thesis, Gebze Institute of Technology, 2003.

 

·         Osman Kurt

Determination of Affine Invariants of 2D Objects and Application to Object Recognition, MS Thesis, Gebze Institute of Technology, 2003.