Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham; Previously a Senior Lecturer at Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems, University of Lincoln; Research Associate at Personal Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College London, working on the ALIZ-E EU Project (2013-2015); Research Assistant at Koç University, member of Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (RML) and Intelligent User Interfaces Laboratory (IUI Lab) (2008-2013); Visiting Researcher at Technical University of Munich, Cluster of Excellence Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys), part of Chair of Information-Oriented Control (2011); Member of 3DTV EU Project, worked on 3D graphical object representations (2005-2007); Junior Engineer at Parana Vision, participated in projects on video processing, analysis, and motion tracking for security applications (brief period).
Education
PhD in Computational Sciences and Engineering from Koç University in 2013; BS and MS in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University in 2004 and 2007 respectively.
Background
Research Interests: haptics, physical human-robot collaboration, shared and traded control, adjustable human-autonomy teamwork; Specialization: human-centered robotics; Brief Introduction: Focuses on developing adjustable autonomy paradigms to enable dynamic switching behaviors between different levels of robotic autonomy during shared control of a physical task, facilitating effective human-autonomy teaming.