PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 
 
 
 

Editorship

  • Serving as an Associate Editor for the Adaptive Behavior journal (since 2009).
  • Serving on the editorial board of the Swarm Intelligence journal (since 2007).
  • Guest editor of the Swarm Intelligence journal for the special issue on ANTS'2010 (2011). (with M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. Engelbrecht, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß and T. Stützle )
  • Editor of the proceeding book, Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, Brussels, Belgium,September 8-10, 6234, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer. (with Dorigo, M.; Birattari, M.; Di Caro, G.A.; Doursat, R.; Engelbrecht, A.P.; Floreano, D.; Gambardella, L.M.; Groß, R.;  Stützle, Th.; Sayama, H.)
  • Guest editor of the Swarm Intelligence journal for the special issue on Swarm Robotics (2008). (with Alan F.T. Winfield)
  • Guest editor of the Autonomous Robots journal for the special issue on Swarm Robotics (2004). (with Marco Dorigo)
  • Editor of the proceeding book, Swarm Robotics: Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, 4433, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer (2007). (with W. Spears and Alan F.T. Winfield)
  • Editor of the state-of-the-art survey book, Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey, 3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag (2005). (with W. Spears)

Conferences

  • Program Co-chair for EpiRob 2010
  • Program Co-chair for ANTS 2010
  • Area chair on (multi-)robots for AAMAS 2009
  • Organizer of the first and second Swarm Robotics Workshops at SAB'2004 and SAB 2006.
  • PC Member for ICDL 201, ICDL/Epirob 2012
  • PC Member for ANTS 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
  • PC Member for AAMAS 2005, 2008, 2010
  • PC Member for IEEE CS 2007
  • PC Member for ICINCO 2005
  • Reviewer for ICRA 2007, 2008
  • Reviewer for IJCAI 2003, 2007
  • PC member for AAAI 2005
  • PC member for SIS 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Reviewer for IROS 2008
  • Reviewer for ISCIS 2003
  • Reviewer for TOK 2006, 2007, 2008

Journals

  • Reviewer for Adaptive Behavior Journal
  • Reviewer for Autonomous Robots journal
  • Reviewer for Swarm Intelligence Journal
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, B and C
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Information Technology
  • Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
  • Reviewer for Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Reviewer for ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
  • Reviewer for The Computer Journal
  • Reviewer for Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Invited Talks

  • “Affordances and Concepts” at 3rd Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding at IROS 2012. Villamoura, Portugal. October 7, 2012.
  • “Towards robots that can shake and talk” at Symposium on Reading Intentions: From children to robots. Pufendorf Institute for advanced studies, Lund, Sweden. March 5-6, 2012.
  • “Affordances in the land of autonomous robotics” at International Workshop on Vision, Action and Language, Embodiment, Cefalu, Italy, April 19, 2011,
  • “Affordances: The adventures of an elephant in the land of autonomous robots” at HUMANOIDS Workshop on Object-Action Complexes: Representations for Grounding Perception by Action and Grounding of Language by Interaction, Paris, France, December 7, 2009.
  • “Swarm robotics and Cognitive robotics research at KOVAN Research Lab,” at Sabanci University, Turkey, December 16, 2009,
  • “Self-organized flocking of mobile robots” at LisbonWorkshop on New Challenges for Cooperative Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal, Oct 24-26, 2008

Advising

  • Current students:
    • Mustafa Parlaktuna
    • Yigit Caliskan
    • Kadir Firat Uyanik
    • Levent Bayindir
    • Fatih Gokce
    • Erinc Inci
    • Hande Celikkanat
  • Graduated students:
    • Onur Yuruten (pursuing his Ph.D. at EPFL, Switzerland)
    • Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu (pursuing his Ph.D. at University of Bremen with Prof. Michael Beetz)
    • Doruk Tunaoglu (pursuing his Ph.D. in Economics at Sabanci University)
    • Ilkay Atil (working as a researcher at the TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Center)
    • Nilgun Dag
    • Baris Akgun(pursuing his PhD at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech., USA.)
    • Emre Ugur (after getting his Ph.D., he is now working as a  researcher at Dept. of Dynamic Brain Imaging, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan)
    • Ali Emre Turgut (after working as a post-doctoral fellow at IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, he assumed a faculty position at the Turk Hava Kurumu Universitesi)
    • Mehmet R. Dogar (now pursuing his PhD at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
    • Maya Cakmak (after getting her PhD at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech., USA, she is now doing an internship at Willow Garage)
    • Selda Eren (now pursuing her PhD at the Informatic Institute of Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
    • Onur Soysal (after getting his PhD at the Dept. of Computer Science of University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA, he is now working at Google.)
    • Erkin Bahceci (now pursuing his PhD at the Dept. of Computer Sciences at U. of Texas at Austin, USA)