Full Time Faculty

Serap Kırbız-Şimşek
Assistant Professor
Department Chair

Asst. Prof. Dr. Serap Kırbız Şimşek received the B.Sc. (2002), M. Sc.  (2005) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in Mathematical Engineering, Computer Science and Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, respectively. During her PhD, she worked at Philips Research Center, Eindhoven, from 2006 to 2007 on a project titled "Watermarking of AAC Bitstreams". From 2010 to 2011, she worked on "Perceptual Audio Source Separation" as a visiting researcher with the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, USA. As a post-doc, she studied on "Informed Source Separation for Musical Signals" at Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble, France from 2013 to 2014. Her research interests include digital signal processing, pattern recognition, audio watermarking, audio source separation, matrix and tensor decomposition and statistical modelling. Her project titled "Coupled Tensor Factorization for Dialogue Enhancement" is supported by TUBITAK. Serap Kırbız Şimsek has been working as an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, MEF University, since 2014.

Research Interests: Digital signal processing, pattern recognition, audio watermarking, audio source separation, matrix and tensor decomposition, statistical modelling.

Ph.D.: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 2013.
M.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Computer Science, 2005.
B.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Mathematical Engineering, 2002.

Ahmet Togo Giz
Professor

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Giz earned his Bachelor’s degree at Middle East Technical University in 1975. He did his PhD at University of California, Berkeley under supervision of Prof. Frank H. Shu  and with Prof Paul Woodward as co-advisor. His thesis topic was Parker instability in Interstellar Medium. He worked as a researcher in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory during his work on his thesis topic.

He joined the Physics Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University in 1988 and worked there as, Assist. Prof., Assoc. Prof. and Prof. until his retirement in 2018. In 2018 he retired from ITU and joined MEF Engineering Faculty.

His research field is simulation studies on the kinematics of polymerization, copolymerization and ultrasonic depolymerization.

Research Interests: Simulation studies on the kinematics of polymerization, copolymerization and ultrasonic depolymerization.

Ph.D.:   University of California, Berkeley, Physics Department, 1987.
B.Sc:  Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, 1975.

Ebru Arısoy-Saraçlar
Assistant Professor

Ebru Arısoy-Saraçlar received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2002, 2004, and 2009, respectively. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY from 2010 to 2013. Then she moved to IBM Turkey. At IBM, she worked on developing language modeling approaches for Voice Search and Mobile Dictation applications. Since 2014, she has been working as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her recent research focuses on applications of speech and language technologies in the field of education and includes spoken language understanding, language modeling and automatic speech recognition. She is currently a member of the IEEE SPS Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2020-2022).

Research Interests: Spoken language understanding, Language modelling, Automatic speech recognition, Applications of speech and language technologies in the field of education.

Ph.D.: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2009.
M.Sc: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2004.
B.Sc: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2002.

Tuba Ayhan
Assistant Professor

Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuba Ayhan received the B.Sc. (2008) and M. Sc. (2010) degrees in Electronics Engineering programme from Istanbul Technical University respectively. With thesis entitled "Design and Implementation of mm-precise Ranging for Indoor Positioning Systems", she received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a post-doc on design and implemetation of approximate computing circuits with ECC group in Istanbul Technical University. Her research interests include embedded systems, digital implementation of artificial neural networks, FPGAs and implementation of signal processing systems. Tuba Ayhan has been working as an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, MEF University, since 2018.

Research Interests:  Embedded systems, artificial neural networks, FPGAs, implementation of signal processing systems.

Ph.D.:  KU Leuven, Belgium,Electrical Engineering, 2016.
M.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics Engineering, 2010.
B.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics Engineering, 2008.

Egemen Bilgin
Assistant Professor 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Egemen Bilgin received the B.Sc. (2008) and M. Sc. (2010) degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering programme from Istanbul Technical University. He received his PhD degree from the same programme in 2016 with the thesis titled "Direct and Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problems in Spherically layered Media". From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the projects titled “Microwave Breast and Brain Imaging Device Development”, and “Development of MNP Based Microwave Imaging Techniques for Breast Cancer Detection”, in the Medical Devices Research Development and Application Laboratory of Istanbul Technical University. His research interests include electromagnetic and acoustic scattering problems, inverse scattering, and microwave tomography techniques. Egemen Bilgin has been working as an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, MEF University, since 2020.

Research Interests: Electromagnetic and acoustic scattering problems, Inverse scattering, Microwave tomography techniques, Integral equations.

Ph.D.: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2016.
M.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2010.
B.Sc: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2008.

Arif Mustafazade
Assistant Professor 

Arif Mustafazade started his interest in electronics in the elementary school. Later in his high school years, he worked on design of analog and logic circuits, measurement instruments, and Phase-Locked-Loops (PLL). This led to his collaboration with industry which continued during his university education as the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Tabriz Azad University. After receiving his BS degree in the year 2000, he developed interest in digital photography and started working on the measurement of image quality factors in digital cameras. He continued his research on this topic as a master’s student at Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in photography from where he graduated in 2008.

Between 2008 and 2010, he pursued his studies in the field of optics at Koç University, working on solid-state femtosecond lasers as a master’s student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. This followed his work in optical MEMS sensors which constituted the main subject of his Ph.D. thesis. During the last two years of his Ph.D., he worked as a principle design engineer and project manager at GAMAK Motors company, the largest manufacturer of electric motors in Turkey focusing on design and modelling of industrial motor drives and power systems.

After receiving his Ph.D. in 2016, he moved to United Kingdom and started working on MEMS gravity sensors as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Cambridge. He contributed to this project by designing ultra-high-precision analog circuits for signal conditioning and implementing advanced measurement and control methods, as well as thermal and mechanical designs. These led to huge improvements in this project in a very short period. In 2018, he joined as the lead design engineer at Silicon Microgravity Limited Company which was established for the same project. Taking a decision to return to Turkey in 2020, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of MEF University and will start as an assistant professor.

Research Interests: Analog Circuits, Solid-State Lasers, MEMS Sensors, Control, Measurement Systems, and Metrology.

Ph.D.: Koç University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2016.
M.Sc: Koç University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2010.
M.A: Marmara University, Photography, 2008. 
B.Sc: Tabriz Azad University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2000.

Yusuf Aydın
Assistant Professor 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Aydın received his B.Sc. dual degree in mechanical engineering and electrical and electronics engineering, and then M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Koc University, Istanbul, in 2011, 2013, and 2019, respectively. His research has contributed to the literature in two parts; he developed (1) a new interaction controller, fractional order admittance controller, which offers a better compromise between transparency and stability robustness for physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) systems, and (2) a multi-criteria optimization framework, which jointly optimizes the stability robustness and transparency of a closed-loop pHRI system for a given interaction controller. He was awarded the prestigious TUBITAK BIDEB fellowship for his graduate studies. Following, he continued conducting research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory at Koc University. In this period, he continued to work as a postdoctoral researcher in a large-scale research project investigating human-robot interaction using machine learning techniques, funded by TUBITAK 1003 program. Dr. Aydın actively serves as a reviewer in several IEEE journals. His research interests include physical human-robot interaction, haptics, robotics, control, optimization, and mechatronics as well as the applications of machine learning into human-robot interaction. Dr. Aydın has been working as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at MEF University as a faculty member since October 2020.
 

Research Interests: Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Haptics, Robotics, Control, Optimization, and Mechatronics as well as Applications of Machine Learning into Physical Human-Robot Interaction.

Ph.D.: Koç University, Mechanical Engineering, 2019.
M.Sc: Koç University, Mechanical Engineering, 2013.
B.Sc: Koç University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2011.
B.Sc: Koç University, Mechanical Engineering, 2011.

Diren Erdem Aydın
Research Assistant

Diren Erdem Aydın received the B.Sc. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department, MEF University, in 2019. He ranked first with highest GPA in EEE graduating class. In his undergraduate thesis, he worked on solar energy and autonomous irrigation in the field of Renewable Energy and Embedded Systems. After graduation, he worked as an R&D engineer in the telecommunications sector for a short time, during which time he was interested in the cloud, web connections of high frequency transmitters and the development of the user interface of these
devices. He is currently an M.S. Student at Düzce University. He has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MEF University since 2019.

Research Interests: Embedded Systems, Digital System Design, Digital Electronics

M.Sc: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2020 - present)
B.Sc: MEF University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019.

Veli Nakçi
Research Assistant

Veli Nakçi graduated from Fırat University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2019. He is a graduate student in ITU Electronics Engineering.

Research Interests: Artificial neural networks, sensor systems, Energy


B.Sc: Fırat University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019.