Education

  • PhD Candidate, Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems (August 2023 - present)
      • Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, EPFL
  • MSc, Mechanical Engineering (September 2020 - July 2023)
      • Miniature Robotics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University
  • BSc, Mechanical Engineering (September 2016 - June 2020)
      • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University

Publications

  • Bakir A., Ozbek D., Abazari A., Ozcan O. (2022). SCoReR: A Sensored, Collision Resilient, Foldable Quadcopter". IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023). Sin- gapore, April 3-7, 2023.
  • Ugur M. , Uygun M. , Bakir A., Ozcan O. \Path Tracking and Connection Mechanism of a Reconfigurable, Foldable, Legged, and Miniature Robot". Hittite Journal of Science and Engineering. vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 205-211, Sep. 2022, doi:10.17350/HJSE19030000272.
  • Mahkam, N., Bakir, A., Ozcan, O. \Miniature Modular Legged Robot with Compliant Back- bones". IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3923-3930, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2982362.

Experience

    Teaching Asistant
    • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (2023 - present)
        • ME410 - Mechanical Product Design and Development
        ME420 - Advanced Design for Sustainable Future
    • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2020 - 2023)
        • ME 101 - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
        ME384 - Mechatronic Systems
        ME342 - Dynamics and Control II
    Undergraduate Research
    • Miniature Robotics Laboratory, Bilkent University (May 2018 - August 2020)
        Supervisor: Dr. Onur Ozcan (onurozcan@bilkent.edu.tr)
    Internships
    • Summer Orientation (Gaziantep University) (July 2016 - August 2016)
    • Summer Practice 1 (Altinay Robot Technologies) (June 2018 - July 2018)
    • Summer Practice 2 (ASELSAN) (July 2019- August 2019)

Language

  • Turkish - Native
  • English - Fluent