About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, working with Ricardo G. Sanfelice at the Hybrid Systems Laboratory. I received my B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2011, with a Minor Honors in Mathematics. From 2011 to 2016, I attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a Fulbright scholar, where I received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering: Systems, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics, in 2013, 2016 and 2016, respectively. At the University of Michigan, I was advised by Kira Barton and Jessy W. Grizzle.
Research Interests
My research aims to generate fundamental science for cyber-physical systems and advance the technology from a systems/control perspective. Broadly speaking, my work lies at the intersection of control, computation, and learning. Specifically, I focus on develeoping tools for high-confidence autonomy of cyber-physical systems using hybrid systems theory, computational and predictive control, and iterative learning control. Some of the applications of these results are found in autonomous vehicles, power electronics and energy systems, robotics and locomotion, networks, and additive manufacturing.
The current focus of my work is the development of hybrid model predictive, optimal control, and motion planning algorithms for self-driving vehicles, robotics, and power systems, with guaranteed robustness to computational limitations. I have analyzed and implemented these algorithms on various autonomous vehicle platforms and power systems.