İlker Şahin, 2026
İlker Şahin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2010, 2014, and 2021, respectively. From 2022 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. After his position as a Teaching Assistant at METU-EE department, he started working as a team lead at Aselsan in 2020, and then joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at METU as an Assistant Professor in 2026. His research interests include high performance motor drives, fault detection, fault tolerant drives, advanced control methods in power electronics, and utilization of new generation power switches.
His research interests include control theory and its applications, guidance, control, and navigation systems, robotics, unmanned/autonomous and cooperative vehicles, deep learning, optimization, and task allocation.
Kenan Ahıska, 2025
Kenan Ahıska received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2010, 2012, and 2016, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Cranfield University. Between 2010 and 2025, he worked at ASELSAN in various roles, including design engineer, systems engineer, and algorithm design engineer. In 2025, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at METU as an Assistant Professor.
His research interests include control theory and its applications, guidance, control, and navigation systems, robotics, unmanned/autonomous and cooperative vehicles, deep learning, optimization, and task allocation.
Yunus Aslan, 2024
Yunus Aslan received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Kültür University in 2013, his M.Sc. degree in MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) from Southampton University in 2018, and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Glasgow University in 2024. He was a visiting researcher at Harvard University from 2023 to 2024. In 2024, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at METU, where he is currently working as an Instructor.
His research interests lie in the development and application of droplet-based microfluidic systems, particularly for biomedical applications, which include diagnostic devices, drug delivery systems, and exploration in cell and synthetic biology.
Hasan Uluşan, 2024
Hasan Uluşan received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from METU, Ankara, Turkey in 2011, 2013, and 2018, respectively. Between 2019-2023, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Bio Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Between 2023-2024 he worked as a Lead Researcher at METUMEMS Center Ankara, Turkey. In 2024, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at METU, where he is currently working as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Uluşan won the 2019 Ph.D. Thesis of the Year Award from IEEE Turkey Section and received the TÜBİTAK 2232 International Fellowship for Early Stage Researchers. His research interests include integrated circuits and systems design, especially for low-power applications, biosensor interfaces, neuroscience, neurological and cardiological disease modeling, power management circuits for energy harvesting systems, and mixed-signal circuits and systems for wearable and implantable medical applications.
Ahmed Hareedy, 2022
Ahmed Hareedy is an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. He is interested in questions in coding/information theory that are fundamental to opportunities created by the current, unparalleled access to data and computing. He received the Bachelor and M.S. degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2018. He was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University between 2018 and 2021. He worked with Mentor Graphics Corporation between 2006 and 2014. He worked with Intel Corporation in the summers of 2015 and 2017.
Dr. Hareedy won the 2018-2019 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Signals and Systems from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). He won the 2017-2018 Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) at UCLA. He won the 2016-2017 Electrical Engineering Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award at UCLA. He is a recipient of the Memorable Paper Award from the 2018 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW). He is a recipient of the 2018-2019 Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee (DSTC).