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 |