STAR 2019-2020 Tentative Timeline:
29 March 2019 – Application deadline
June 2019 – Initial progress surveys due
October 2019 – Half-time surveys due
March 2020 – Poster presentations and award ceremony
STAR 2019-2020 Committee:
Serdar Kocaman, Figen S. Oktem, Elif Uysal Bıyıkoğlu (chair: Prof.Tolga Ciloglu)
Special thanks to IEEE METU Student Branch and Erdem Sezgin for their kind help with various organizational matters.
STAR 2019-2020 Projects:
| Advisor Name | Project Title |
| Afşar Saranlı | IMU based feedback control of Industrial Crane (Control Lab) |
| Dual-Camera based 3D Object Localization in Large Spaces (Control Lab) | |
| Aydın Alatan | Segmentation of man-made objects from LIDAR |
| Hyperspectral Image Analysis | |
| Cognitive Camera | |
| High Dynamic Range Imaging | |
| Multimedia Watermarking and Forensics | |
| Cengiz Beşikçi | Novel Quantum Structured Infrared Detectors for Thermal Imaging (junior and senior level students) |
| Ece Güran Schmidt | Computer Networks |
| Cloud Computing | |
| Embedded Real-time Networks | |
| Elif Uysal Bıyıkoğlu | Implementation of Age-aware application layer sampling on UDP connections |
| AoI-aware transmission using Statistical and machine learning methods | |
| Implementation of a novel age-aware MAC layer on software-defined radios | |
| Implementation of novel IoT sensor platforms | |
| Emre Özkan | Object Tracking and Classification for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems |
| Fatih Kamışlı | Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms to Image/Video Compression/Processing |
| Software/Hardware Implementation of Image/Video Compression Algorithms | |
| Figen S. Öktem | Compressive spectral imaging: mathematical models, algorithms, and optical experiments |
| Three-dimensional image reconstruction for near-field radar imaging | |
| Deep neural networks for solving inverse problems in imaging | |
| (For any of the above topics, strong interest and background in math, algorithms, or optics is required) | |
| Gönül Turhan Sayan | Mine Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar: Simulation and Testing |
| Electromagnetic Detection of Objects Hidden Inside or Behind Walls: Simulation and Testing | |
| Metamaterial Design at Radio Frequencies, Terahertz and Infrared Frequencies. | |
| Distributed Fiber Optical Sensors | |
| Gözde Bozdağı Akar | WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER |
| Klaus Werner Schmidt | Controller Design for an Autonomous Lane Keeping System |
| Planning Vehicle Maneuvers in Dense Highway Traffic | |
| Design of an Automatic Parking System | |
| Murat Göl | Real time monitoring in smart grid applications |
| Analysis of the problems of modern power systems | |
| Range estimation for electric vehicles | |
| Mustafa Mert Ankaralı | Design, Analysis, and Control of Locomotion in Robotic and Biological Systems |
| Selçuk Yerci | Fabrication of a solar cell that looks like a painting (high risk –high gain) |
| Optical simulation of solar cells (open to students at any grade) | |
| Electrical simulation of solar cells (those enjoyed/enjoying attending EE212 classes are preferred) | |
| Indirect-to-direct band gap transition in germanium nanobeams by strain induction (double major in physics is preferred) | |
| Development of solar cells having organic – inorganic mixed layers (interdisciplinary study with chemists is required) | |
| Serdar Kocaman | Numerical Simulations for Performance Improvements of Infrared Photodetectors |
| Tunable Birefringent Filters and Modulators for Photonic Integrated Circuits | |
| Applications of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Photonic Crystal Structures (double major in Physics is required) | |
| Yeşim Serinağaoğlu | Estimation of Complete Body Surface Potential Maps from a Limited Number of Measurements – Effects on Electrocardiographic Imaging |