STAR Projects offered in 2017 are given below. If you are interested in a project, you should contact to the faculty member who offered the project and have a joint agreement. The applications are due March 24th.
| Advisor Name | Project Title |
| Afşar Saranlı | Guesture Recognition and Robot Control using Video/Depth sensor |
| Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Curved Robot Legs | |
| Distributed sensing and Temperature Control of Large Spaces | |
| Scenario based control of a robot face | |
| Vision based control of a quad-copter UAV | |
| Ali Özgür Yılmaz | Reduced complexity detection of high order modulations |
| Aydın Alatan | Segmentation of man-made objects from LIDAR |
| Hyperspectral Image Analysis | |
| Cognitive Camera | |
| High Dynamic Range Imaging | |
| Barış Bayram | Ultrasound Analysis and Finite Element Simulation (position filled) |
| Buyurman Baykal | Simulation and design of mobile ad hoc networks for 5G wireless systems |
| Cengiz Beşikçi | Novel Sensors for Infrared Imaging (Requirement: Senior level status) |
| Çağatay Candan | Dependency Structure Estimation: The statistical analysis of the letter grades |
| Elif Uysal Bıyıkoğlu | Implementing an IoT node to operate as part of an end-to-end application over the Internet. |
| Motion detection and tracking with wearable sensors. | |
| Implementation of an health monitoring application using a wearable sensor. | |
| Implementation of algorithms for update scheduling for a sensing and monitoring application. | |
| Data collection from vehicle mounted sensors and implementation of updating algorithms. | |
| Emre Özkan | Target tracking |
| Sensor fusion | |
| Fatih Kamışlı | Algorithm development/implementation for image/video compression |
| Extracting traffic data from video at intersections | |
| Machine Learning applications for video compression | |
| Figen S. Öktem | Computational spectral imaging with photon sieves |
| Sparsity-based image reconstruction using transform learning | |
| A novel space-frequency approach to optical resolution | |
| Imaging for space applications (e.g. ultralight telescopes for CubeSats and weighing black holes) | |
| Compressed sensing | |
| Phase imaging with a coded aperture | |
| Ultrawideband microwave imaging using MIMO arrays | |
| 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 | Super Resolution Techniques for Medical Image Processing |
| Vision based defect identification in sugar beet piles | |
| Vision-Based Quality Inspection in Robotic Welding | |
| Haluk Külah | CMOS sensors for cancer detection (position filled) |
| Ultralow power IC design for energy harvesting (position filled) | |
| İlkay Ulusoy | Automatic detection of retinal anomalies using image processing and machine learning tools |
| Kemal Leblebicioğlu | Unmanned air and sea vehicles, and their payload applications (such as studies on optic camera and sonar images, videos) |
| Murat Göl | Nanogrid control tool development |
| Nevzat Güneri Gençer | Smart Home Control with Brain Computer Interface |
| Wireless Power Transfer for Medical Implants | |
| Ozan Keysan | Finite element analysis of a permanent magnet electrical machine using Ansys/Maxwell |
| Development of the motor drive and control embedded software using DSP Cards | |
| Design of a filter inductor with planar magnetics | |
| Design and loss characterization of power converters consisting of GaN power FETs | |
| Thermal modeling, analysis and design of an Integrated Modular Motor Drive Application | |
| Design of a micro-controller hardware platform for an Integrated Modular Motor Drive Application | |
| Design of a power stage and gate drive PCB of an Integrated Modular Motor Drive Application | |
| Manufacturing of a Motor Control Experimental Test-Rig Please check http://keysan.me/star for further details. | |
| Özgür Ergül | Directive reflection from optical metamaterials (position filled) |
| THz reflectarrays (position filled) | |
| Design and Computational Analysis of Solar Cells for Energy Harvesting (position filled) | |
| Selçuk Yerci | Solar powered drone: We will give the drone and silicon solar cells (position filled) |
| Modeling and fabrication of colored silicon solar cells: Requires hand on simulations and microfabrication in clean room | |
| Detection of valence band density of states of semiconductors via photoelectron spectroscopy (position filled) | |
| Designing optical filters for space applications: Electromagnetic simulations | |
| Electrical design of silicon solar cells: Semiconductor simulations | |
| Serdar Kocaman | Tunable birefringent filters and modulators for photonic integrated circuits |
| Numerical simulations for performance improvements of infrared photodetectors | |
| Şimşek Demir | ADAP – Anti-Drone Active Prevention : RF system against drones and UAVs (experimental work) |
| FAST-V – Fast Startup Vircator : Improvement of startup time of vircator by introducing controlled reflective loading (simulation based results) | |
| APS – DTED Based RF Altimeter Performance Simulation : Development of a radar target simulator for evaluating the performance of an RF Altimeter placed on a flying cruise platform. | |
| Tolga Çiloğlu | Please contact Prof. Tolga Ciloglu for his projects on array signal processing, underwater acoustics and speech processing. |
| Uğur Halıcı | Brain-like computing |
| Yeşim Serinağaoğlu | AF Classification from a short single lead ECG recording |