Principal Investigator
Yıldıray Yıldız, PhD MIT
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Former scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
Member, Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2020)
Associate editor, IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Associate editor, European Journal of Control
Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Sys Techa
Phone: +90 312 290 3065
E-mail: yyildiz@bilkent.edu.tr
Graduate Students
Abdullah Habboush
MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: a.habboush@bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Adaptive and Neural control, Human-in-the-loop systems, Memory-augmented control.
Emirhan İnanç
MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: emirhan.inanc@bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Adaptive control, Human-in-the-Loop Systems, Reinforcement Learning.
Şeymanur Al
MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: seymanur.al@bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Adaptive control, Human-automation interactions, Game Theory and Statistical Learning.
Yusuf Uzun
MSc Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: yusuf.uzun@bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Shared control, human-automation interaction.
Undergraduate Students
Özgür Demir
Junior Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: ozgur.demir@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Adaptive control allocation, Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning.
Adil Aytar
Senior Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: adil.aytar@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Game Theory, Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning.
Tuğçe Sena Koyuncu
Junior Student in Mechanical Engineering and Physics
Email: sena.koyuncu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Control Theory, cyber-physical human systems, human-automation interactions
Melisa Taşpınar
Senior Student in Computer Science and Physics
Email: melisa.taspinar@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
Research Area: Machine Learning, Reinforcement learning and Game Theory.
Yiğit Gürses
Senior Student in Computer Science and Mathematics
Email: gursesyigit99@gmail.com
Research Area: Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory.
Ezgi Saygılı
Senior Student in Computer Science
Email: ezgisaygili06@gmail.com
Research Area: Machine learning, control theory, neural networks.
Öykü Kınacı
Mechanical Engineering Student in METU
Email: oyku552@gmail.com
Research Area: Control systems design, human-automation interactions, human-controller interactions.
İbrahim Bıyıklı
Mechanical Engineering Student in METU
Email: ibrahim.biyikli@metu.edu.tr
Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, self driving car simulation.
Alumni
Shahab Tohidi
Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department PhD Program in August 2021.
Webpage: shahabtohidi.com/
Thesis title: Adaptive control of cyberphysical human systems
First position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark
Berat Mert Albaba
Graduated from Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department MSc Program in August 2021.
Research area: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Traditional Reinforcement Learning, Behavioral Game Theory and Autonomous Vehicles.
First position: PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology
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
Systems Laboratory 