Academic Experience

Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research (RIVeR) Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

• Research
  • Research on improving computational efficiency of motion planning algorithms for time-dependent mobile manipulation tasks in dynamic environments.
  • Worked on the funded (The National Institute for Hometown Security) project: “Automated Assessment of Damaged Environments due to Extreme Events using UAVs”.
• Teaching
  • EECE 2160 – Embedded Design: Enabling Robots
    Fall 2019, Spring-Fall 2020
    • Attended lab sessions, graded HWs and reports, held office hours.

Graduate Student
Feb. 2013 – Jan. 2016

ATLAS Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Lab, METU, Ankara, Turkey

• Research
  • Completed M.Sc. Thesis with a title “Body attitude control of a planar one-legged hopping robot using a novel air drag assisted reaction wheel“.
  • Wrote “METU Scientific Research Project” proposal with the budget of ∼$6400 to support my M.Sc thesis and completed successfully submitting a final report.

Graduate Student Summer Intern
June 2014 – Sep. 2014

MeRLIn: Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory for Innovation Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

• Research
  • Quadrivio Project: Implemented the backstepping observer method
    on MATLAB to estimate the tire cornering stiffness, which is necessary to calculate rollover risk indicator of an all terrain vehicle.