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Mustafa
Ünel was born in Diyarbakır
in 1970. He received his BS in EE and MS in Systems and Control, both from Bogazici University in 1994 and 1996. He received
both a second MS degree in Applied Mathematics and his PhD in Electrical
Sciences and Computer Engineering from Brown University
in 1998 and 1999, respectively. After his PhD, he held two postdoctoral
positions at Brown and Yale from 1999 to 2001. At Brown, he worked in
Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems where he led a NSF project
titled “New
Algebraic Methods for Simplifying the Design and Measurement of Sculptured
Shapes”. At Yale, he worked at Center for Computational Vision and
Control where he led a DARPA project titled “Reactive Switching Strategies for the
Control of Uninhabited Air Vehicles”. He then returned to Turkey and
joined the Department of Computer Engineering at Gebze Institute of
Technology. He taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in
mathematics, vision, graphics, control and robotics at several state and
private universities including Bogazici
University and Sabanci University.
In September 2004, he joined the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
at Sabanci University as a full-time faculty
member, and he is affiliated with the Mechatronics Group.
Dr.
Ünel's primary research interests are in computational vision and control. In
vision area, he is interested in 2D/3D shape representation, algebraic
and geometric methods for object recognition, motion and structure
estimation, camera calibration, visual tracking, multiple view geometry
and event identification. In control area, he is interested in vision based
control of motion, visual feedback strategies in micro systems, observers,
and coordination and control of autonomous groups, both natural and man-made.
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