Tapir Lab. @IEEE Turkey Students and Young Professional Congress

The IEEE Turkey Student Branches and Young Professionals Congress takes place from August 20th – 23rd at IEEE Turkey Student Branches Youtube channel. On the first day of the Congress, IEEE SAC Chair Dr. Elisa Barney Smith, IEEE Turkey Section Chair Prof Dr. H. Fatih Uğurdağ, Vice-Chair Dr. Tunçer Baykaş, Treasurer Simay Akar, Student Activities Coordinator Dr. Murat Tümer and Professional Development and Educational Activities Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Serhan Yarkan have attended the Congress and delivered the opportunities, and expectations of the contemporary vision of IEEE and IEEE Turkey. Also, IEEE Turkey Student Branches Society Chairs of RAS, KÖK, and CS have presented their annual reports, and candidates of the new term have presented their plans.

Tapir Lab. @ TAMU, again!

Özgür Alaca, a Tapir Lab. member, has been accepted into Ph.D. program with full-scholarship in EE Department at Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. Özgür Alaca will be pursuing his Ph.D. studies in the field of wireless communications, deep learning, and statistical signal processing. Tapir Lab. would like to congratulate him and appreciate the effort he put in on the projects carried out at Tapir Lab. during his time in here!

Tapir Lab. in Robotim @National Press

Details of Robotim, a swarm intelligence mission squad consisting of unmanned air and land vehicles, have been shared by Prof. İsmail Demir, President of Presidency of Defence Industries under Presidency of The Republic of Turkey, on his official Twitter account. The sharing has been echoed by several nation-wide press and news agencies on the same day along with videocasts aired on YouTube. Note that Tapir Lab. carries out research and development in the field of telecommunications and pseudo-positioning system design for Robotim.

Links for the Twitter share and news agencies and journals could be found below:

Prof. İsmail Demir’s Twitter share

Tapir Lab.’s official Twitter account share

Tapir Lab.’s official Instagram account share

News agency link I (Hurriyet)

News agency link II (Sabah)

News agency link III (Milliyet)

News agency link IV (InternetHaber)

Videocast on YouTube by Tekno Savunma

Videocast on YouTube by Savunma Sanayii Dergilik

Videocast on YouTube by HGV Savunma

 

 

PI of ISTEC @Tapir Lab.

Assoc. Prof. Muhammed Ali Aydın, the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Internet of Things (IoT) Security Test and Evaluation Center (ISTEC) project, which is funded by Istanbul Development Agency, was at Tapir Lab. and hosted in a TapirCast session.

Upon his recent TV interview aired on TVNet (a national broadcast station) in a TechTalk show hosted by Erdal Nalbant, Assoc. Prof. Muhammed Ali Aydın provided critical pieces of information mainly focusing on cybersecurity, IoT, education, and future visions regarding emerging technologies.

Tapir Lab. would like to thank Assoc. Prof. Muhammed Ali Aydın for his visit and wish him success in ISTEC and other upcoming projects.

The interview (in Turkish) is aired online and could be accessed on Tapir Lab.’s official social media accounts and the links below:

IEEE Turkey Section Vice President @Tapir Lab.

IEEE Turkey Section Vice President, Dr. Tunçer Baykaş, was Tapir Lab.’s guest for a podcast interview last week. Dr. Baykaş provided IEEE Turkey Section’s contemporary and future visions along with several other upcoming events and activities ahead. Tapir Lab. would like to thank IEEE Turkey Section Vice President, Dr. Baykaş, for his visit and wish him success in his service.

The interview (in Turkish) is aired online and could be accessed on Tapir Lab.’s official social media accounts and the links below:

Tapir Lab. would also like to thank Nazım Can Işık for his valuable contributions in preperation of banner and publishing it in all social media platforms.

Tapir Lab. @IEEE Turkey SB Gathering on behalf of IEEE Turkey.

The IEEE Turkey Student Branches Workshop takes place from February 5th – 9th at GSF Conference Hall, Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey. On behalf of IEEE Turkey, Professional Development and Educational Activities Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Serhan Yarkan attends the workshop and delivers the expectations of the contemporary vision of IEEE Turkey with a ten-minute speech on Feb. 8th, 2020. At the workshop, 204 IEEE Student Members, who are members of different societies, from 39 university student branches, will come together. The event includes 5 different parallel workshops for each society, ComSoc, CS, EMBS, RAS, WIE and 1 parallel workshop for the section as a whole.

SCT Succesfully Became a Ph.D. Candidate at Texas A&M @College Station

Sezer Can Tokgöz, a former Tapir Lab. member, has advanced to candidacy of Ph.D. in EE Department at Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. As announced before, Sezer Can Tokgöz will be pursuing his Ph.D. studies along with Scott Miller and Khalid Qaraqe who are the two prominent researchers in the field of wireless communications and statistical signal processing. We would like to congratulate him and appreciate the effort he put in on the projects carried out in Tapir Lab. during his time in here.

Tapir Lab. gets funded by Presidency of Defence Industries two times in a row!

The signing ceremony of Tapir Lab.’s second project “Autonomous Discovery, Guidance and Navigation with Collaborative Robots (ROBO-TİM)” has been hosted by Presidency of Defence Industry at the 13th of January. ROBO-TİM has been initiated to develop a cognitive swarm ability which is supported by artificial intelligence for the coordinated task execution of UAVs and UGVs. After KAŞİF, ROBO-TİM has become Tapir Lab.’s second project which is funded by the Presidency of Defence Industry. For more details please visit official page of PDI. (in Turkish)

Announcement video of R&D Studies of Presidency of Defence Industries. (in Turkish)

Kaşif, developed by Tapir Lab., has been officially announced by The Minister of Industry and Technology, Mr. Varank in The Parliament Budget Gathering.

During the meetings of the 2020 Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM)’s Planning and Budget Committee, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank presented the ongoing and completed projects. In this presentation, Multidimensional Radio Communication Signal Analysis Platform (KAŞİF) mentioned in the ongoing projects related to Artifical Intelligence. Kaşif has been developed by Ticaret EE in collaboration with TUBITAK Informatics and Information Security Research Center (BİLGEM). Ticaret EE has completed the key component Kaşif. The component has been tested in real world environments under challenging conditions and operated successfully. KAŞİF will be completed in February 2020.

(in Turkish)