Yıldıray Yıldız, PhD MIT

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Former scientist at NASA Ames Research Center

Deputy Chair, IFAC Technical Committee 9.2, Systems and Control for Societal Impact
Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Associate editor, European Journal of Control
General Chair, 2024 IFAC Cyber-Physical-Human Systems Conference
Former Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Former Member, Control Systems Society Board of Governors

Phone: +90 312 290 3065

E-mail: yyildiz@bilkent.edu.tr

CV

Yusuf Uzun

MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Email: yusuf.uzun@bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Shared control, human-automation interaction.

Can Ünen

MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Email: can.unen@bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Flight control, human-machine systems, neural networks.

Taha Yıldız

MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Email: tahayildiz1907@gmail.com

Research Area: Robust Adaptive Control
Modeling and Control of Missiles.

Emre Bektaş

MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Email: emre.bektas@bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning.

Sude Eski

Senior Student in Mechanical Engineering

Research Area: Control Theory, neural networks.

Furkan İmir

Senior Student in Mechanical Engineering

Email:  furkan.imir@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory.

Hüseyin Tunç

Senior Student in Mechanical Engineering

Email:  huseyin.tunc@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, autonomous car simulation and data-driven modeling.

Mina Us

Senior Student in Electrical&Electronics Engineering

Email:  mina.us@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory and neural networks

Yankı Evliyaoğlu

Senior Student in Mechanical Engineering

Email:  yanki.evliyaoglu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory and autonomous transportation systems.

Yaren Kaya

Graduated from Bilkent University Electrical&Electronics Engineering Bachelor’s Program in 2024.

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory and Digital Signal Processing.

First Position: PhD Student @UIUC

Şeymanur Al

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2024.  

Research Area: Adaptive control, Human-automation interactions, Game Theory, and Statistical Learning.

First position: PhD student at  Eindhoven University of Technology

Abdullah Habboush

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2023.

Research area: Dynamics and Control, Adaptive Control, Data-Driven Modelling, Digital Twins.

First position: PhD student at  Eindhoven University of Technology

Yiğit Gürses

Graduated from Bilkent University Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program in August 2022.

Research Area: Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory.

First Position: MSc Student @TUM

Emirhan İnanç

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2023.

Research Area: Adaptive control, Human-in-the-Loop Systems, Reinforcement Learning.

First position: PhD Student at Illinois Institute of Technology

Özgür Demir

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2021.  

Research Area: Engineering, AI & Data

First position: Business Development Coordinator @Deloitte Türkiye Technology & Transformation

Emre Eraslan

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2021.

Research area: Closed loop reference model adaptive control, Human-In-The-Loop stability of aerial systems, aerial swarm robotics.

First position: PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cevahir Köprülü

Graduated from Bilkent University Electrical Engineering Department Undergraduate Program in June 2021.

Research Area: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory, Autonomous Vehicles and Control Theory

First position: PhD student at University of Texas

Cem Okan Yaldız

Graduated from Bilkent University Electrical Engineering Department Undergraduate Program in June 2021.

Research Area: Game Theory, Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning. 

First position: PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology

Didem Fatma Demir 

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in January 2021.

Thesis title: Design, Manufacturing, and Rough Terrain Analysis of a Collision Resilient Foldable, Adjustable Wheeled Miniature Robot: FAWSCY

Ayesha Sarwar 

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2019.

Thesis title: A Control Allocation Technique to Recover from Driver-Induced Oscillations

Ehsan Yousefi

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2018.

Thesis title: An Investigation of the Effects of Human Dynamics on System Stability and Performance

First academic position: PhD student at Koç University

Anıl Alan

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department Graduate Program in June 2017.

Thesis title: Pressure control of gas generator in throttleable ducted rockets: a time delay resistant adaptive control approach

First academic position: PhD student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Neginsadat Musavi

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department Graduate Program in June 2017.

Thesis title: A game theoretical framework for the evaluation of unmanned aircraft systems airspace integration concepts

First position: PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Deniz Onural

Graduated from Bilkent University Electrical Engineering Department Undergraduate Program in June 2017.

Research topic:A game theoretical framework for the evaluation of unmanned aircraft systems airspace integration concepts

First position: PhD student at Boston University

Bekir Emre Körpe

Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department Undergraduate Program in June 2017.

Research topic: Explicit Time Delay Compensation in Teleoperation: An Adaptive Control Approach

First position: Engineer at ASELSAN