Assoc. Prof. Dr. İhsan Murat Kuşoğlu, Technical Chemistry I, University Duisburg-Essen Germany

Konu: New material feedstocks for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process

Short bio: Metalurji ve Malzeme Mühendisi Doc.Dr. Ihsan Murat Kusoglu 2019 Subat ayindan beri DFG SPP2122 projesinde Laboratuvarlar arasi calisma koordinasyonunu yapmakta olup Duisburg-Essen Üniversitesi, Almanya`da postdoc pozisyonunda görev almaktadir. Akademik calismalari cogunlukla toz metalurjisi ve eklemeli imalat alaninda yeni malzeme gelistirme ve özelliklerin incelenemesi üzerinedir.

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Assist. Prof. Mehdi Serati (Ph.D.), The University of Queensland

Dr Mehdi Serati completed his PhD at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) through The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia in Rock Mechanics and Rock Fracture Mechanics. His main research interests include the design and setup of advanced experiments with diverse engineering materials including pavements, brittle composites, ceramics, hard rocks, and superbly hard diamond composites. In his current role as a Lecturer at UQ, he has been contributing as Chief Investigator (CI) to the management of the Large Open Pit Project (LOP II), which is an international research collaboration funded by eight mining companies (including AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick, BHP Billiton, De Beers, Debswana, Newcrest, Rio Tinto and Vale) with funding of $2.04 million from June 2016 to December 2019. The LOP II Project aims to address critical gaps in the current understanding of rock slope failures and landslides in large open pit mines worldwide.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zixiang Li, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Topic: State-of-the-art exact and heuristic methods for the simple assembly line balancing problem

Short Bio: Zixiang Li is currently an associate professor at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include assembly line balancing, intelligent optimization algorithms and multi-objective optimization. He has published more than 40 SCI papers in academic journals.

E-mail: zixiangliwust@gmail.com

Doç. Dr. Erdal Kayacan, Aarhus University, Denmark

Topic: Autonomous Drone Racing

Erdal Kayacan received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2003 and a M.Sc. degree in systems and control engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. In September 2011, he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. After finishing his post-doctoral research in KU Leuven at the division of mechatronics, biostatistics and sensors (MeBioS) in 2014, he worked in Nanyang Technological University at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an assistant professor for four years. Currently, he is pursuing his research in Aarhus University at the Department of Engineering as an associate professor.

Dr. Şafak Kayıkçı, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Topic: Current Trends in Software Engineering

Şafak Kayıkçı received B.Sc degree in computer engineering from Marmara University (Turkey) in 2002 and MSc. degree in engineering management from Istanbul Technical University, in 2006. He worked as technical consultant in IBM, senior software engineer in Havelsan and project manager in the banking industry. After having Ph.D. degree in informatics from Marmara University in 2014, he moved to the academy as the founding head of the computer engineering department (till 2019) in Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University. He is now doing post-doctoral research at Florida Atlantic University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science related to big data and machine learning

Dr. Alper Yaman, Dept. of Biomechatronics, Stuttgart

Dr. Alper Yaman is currently a senior research expert at Fraunhofer IPA. He has been focused on exoskeletons, wearable robots, artificial muscles, medical diagnosis, rehabilitation technologies, IoT, smart sensors, and machine learning applications in these fields. He received his BSc in Physics (2000), MSc (2003), and Ph.D. (2014) in Biomedical Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey. In his Ph.D. thesis, he focused specifically on MRI assessment of epimuscular myofascial force transmission and manual therapies. He was awarded with Necmi Tanyolac Award and also granted by TUBITAK in his post-doctoral research in 2014. In his post-doctoral studies at Tennessee State University (2014-2015), he worked on meso-scale robots for detection within narrow canals and pipes, sensor fusion, and agriculture robots. He worked as an assistant professor at Yeditepe University between 2015 and 2018. He lectured “Medical Robotics”, “Biomechanics”, “Biomedical Sensors and Transducers”, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, and “Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems”. In different periods, he worked in the private sector as an R&D and software engineer for four years and a business development manager for one year. He is an expert in various low and high-level programming languages.