Education

PhD, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK , July 1998

Thesis:       Evaluation of neural learning in a MLP NN for an acoustic-to-articulatory mapping problem using different training pattern vector characteristics

BSc, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Yıldız Teknik University, İstanbul, Turkey, February 1991

Project:      An application of ultrasonic transducers for distant measurement.

Research Interests

The application of computational intelligence to power systems, Economical and Environmental Power Dispatch using Artificial Intelligence, Fuel Cell based Distributed Generators and Optimal Control, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Multimodal HCI, Affective Computing,  Intelligent Systems,  Artificial Intelligence

Research Experience

Academic Visitor                                                                  June 2006-September 2006

Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton University

Computer Science,  University College of London (UCL)

A visit on Machine Learning Techniques. The first part of  research has been carried out in  ISIS group within the department of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton University. The last part of research has been completed at Computer Science of  University College of London

Assistant Professor                                                               June 1999- present (2006)

Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Niğde University          

In general my main research activities have addressed to the implementation of artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm and taboo search in economical/environmental dispatch problems which is constrained optimization problem. 

During the period I have also conducted researches in order to improve performance of neural classifiers, under heavily skewed multi-dimensional training data

Currently I am working on Distributed Power Systems based on Fuel Cells and Their Optimal Control.  A grant  of nearly $110.000 has been acquired by Govermental Source to conduct a research within a project frameworks which runs from 2006 to 2009.

PhD Student                                                             October 1994- October 2008

Electrical Engineering, Nottingham University Faculty of Engineering

My research addressed the problem of efficient parameter extraction for an articulatory speech synthesizer. The effect of statistical characteristics of training data on the performance of neural estimator  is investigated and a modification scheme was proposed which resulted in a improved performance of MLP neural network estimator.

Nigde University Research Asssistant                                                        8/1993-07/1999

Administrative  Experience

Nigde University

Faculty of Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department

Deputy Head of Electromagnetic Division (2004-2005)

Nigde University

Faculty of Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department

Deputy Head of Department (2001-2004)

Nigde University

Faculty of Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department

Deputy Head of Electronics Division (2000-present)

Nigde University

Faculty of Engineering

 Member of Faculty Board  (2005-present)

Nigde University

International Relation Office

 Departmental Coordinator of Sokrates\Erasmus Program (2004-2005)

Nigde University

International Relation Office

Deputy Coordinator for Project Development, (2005 - )

Teaching Experience

Nigde University,

Faculty of Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department

Numerical Methods

Programming Language: Second year undergraduate course aimed at introducing to computer programming using C programming language. The essential information is presented

Signal and Systems: Third year undergraduate course which introduce students to the concept of analog/digital signals and systems, techniques to analysis such signals and systems such as fourier series, fourier transforms and FFT

Power Electronics: Third year undergraduate course on power electronics, Semiconductor power electronics elements, power electronics circuits, converters, rectifiers, inverters etc.

Neural Networks for Signal Processing

Probability and Random Processes

Speech Analysis

Pattern Recognition

Funded Research Projects

1.      Optimal Control and Integration of PEM Fuel Cells as Distributed Electricity Generators using Algorithms based on Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Networks, State Planning Agency (DPT) Advanced Research Project, Principal Investigator , 2006-2009

2.      Hydrogen technologies and advance manufacturing research center: HYTEM, Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area” call: “Promotion of co-operation with Associated Candidate Countries: Reinforcement of the Associated Candidate Countries’ Research Capacities” FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Research project, Researcher, 2005-2007

3.      Determination and Fusion of Bimodal Biometric Parameters From Speech Signal and Face Image to Improve Human-Computer Interaction, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Research project,  Principal Investigator  Oct 2005- Oct 2007. 

4.      A comparison of neural networks, Genetic Algorithm and Tabu Search Algorithm for Solving Economic Dispatch Problem’, Final Report: 2003, Research Fund of University of Nigde, F2001/04, ‘ Principal Investigator 2003. 

5.      Investigation of the effect of the input-output vector distribution characteristics in MLP NN on the final weights, Final Report: April 2001., Research Fund of University of Nigde,  F99/04,2001,  Researcher

6.      Design of a Synthesiser İnterface for efficient and modular implementation of signal processing and classifier algorithms  on Field Programmable Gate Arrays , The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Research project,  Researcher, July 2008- May 2011. 

MSc Theses Supervised

1. GUNAY, E.,  Cellular Neural Networks in Medical Imaging,  “Hücresel yapay sinir ağları ve medikal görüntü işleme”, Niğde Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Ana Bilim Dalı, Şubat 2001
2. KARADAL, H., Investigation of voltage stability using artificial neural networks, “Gerilim kararlılığının yapay sinir ağları ile incelenmesi,”, Niğde Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Anabilim Dalı, Mart 2003
3. DOGAN, G., Determination of affective state of a user from speech signals using artificial neural networks, Niğde Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Anabilim Dalı, Mart 2006
4. POLAT, G, Improving discriminative power of speech related features using feature selection algoritms  in emotion detection

Honor and Awards

2006

A grant by The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) for an academic visit, to the Electronics and Computer Science Department  at Southampton University and to the Computer Science Department  at University College of London

1993

Overseas Postgraduate Student Scholarship from The Turkish Council of  Higher Education (YOK) Turkey

Society Memberships

Member,  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Inc., U.S.A