Engineer Design

Abdullah Akce

Department of Computer Science, Phone: 217-***-****

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, E-mail: ********@****.**** or ******@********.***

*** *. ******* ***, ******, IL-61801 Website: www.akce.name

EDUCATION

U niversity of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, IL, USA

( expected) May 2013

P h.D. in Computer Science

A rea : A rtificial I ntelligence/Robotics/Machine Learning

B ogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

J une 2007

B .S. in Computer E ngineering (with highest honor /rank )

EXPERIENCE

U niversity of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, IL, USA 2 007 -

R esearch E xperience present

T hesis: E stablished a framework for human control of robotic systems

t hrough efficient and effective communication of the user s intent.

D esigned and developed novel u ser i nterfaces a nd interaction techniques

f or cyber - physical systems (in particular, brai n - machine interfaces).

C o - authored and published in human - computer interaction, biomedical

e ng ineering, and robotics journals (IJHCI, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE TRO).

P ublished i n top robotics conferences (ICRA 10, I CRA 11, IROS 12) .

P erformed s oftware design and de velopment for several research platforms

( including mobile devices, tablets, robots) i n multidisciplinary projects.

A pplied machine learning, computer vision, p attern recognition,

a ugmented reality, o ptimization, neuroscience in research projects.

T eaching & M entoring E xperience

L ed discussion sections a s a teaching assistant in t he following courses:

M achine Learning ( covered modern m achine l earning a lgorithms )

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F und amental Algorithms ( covered algorithm design, analysis)

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I ntroduction to C omputer Science ( covered CS fundamentals, Java, OOP)

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D esigned and instructed labs for a newly developed course titled A erospace

D ecision Algorithms, a s a teaching assistant in Aerospace E ngineering.

M entored o ver a d ozen undergraduate students in research projects .

M icrosoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA 2 008

S oftware Development Engineer ( Summer Intern)

P articipated in Windows d evelopment t eam.

D esigned and implemented a new feature for Windows 7 Browser.

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A ILab, B ogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey 2 006 - 2007

U ndergraduate Researcher

C ompeted in R oboCup, an international robotics competition, a s a member

o f Cerberus . Developed software for robots to play soccer.

D esigned an outdoor robotics platform, and implemented autonomous

n avigation based on monocular vi sion, as part of my senior thesis.

M obinex R&D Center, Istanbul, Turkey 2 004 - 2006

S oftware Designer and Developer

P articipated in t he design and development of S martface, a framework for

c ross - platform mobile application development.

P rovided object - oriented design and implementation support for

W indows, J ava, and S ymbian b ased platforms.

D esigned and developed a PC client for push - to - talk and advance

m essaging c apability w ith mobile users. The client was f eatured in C ebit

B ilisim E urosia 2 004, top Eurosian IT trade fair.

C ERN (European Org. for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland 2 005

S ummer Student

P articipated in d ata acquisition team for the C MS e xperiment, one of the

l argest experiments in physics with thousands of engineers /researchers.

D esigned and implemented an analysis tool for run control and m onitor

s ystem, developed by the m ultidisciplinary r esearch t eam.

AWARDS

C ognitive S ci. & A rtificial I ntelligence A ward, B eckman I ns., U niv. o f Illinois 2 012

O utstanding R esearch P oster Award, C omp. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Illinois 2 010

B est Project Award, C omputing Habitat P rog. C ompetition, U niv. of Illinois 2 008

T UBITAK Fellowship, f or achievements in International Science Olympiads, 2 003 - 07

T he Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

S ilver Medalist at the 15 th I nt. O lympiad in Informatics, W isconsin, USA 2 003

COMPUTER SKILLS

C omputer L anguages ( not inclusive) : C, C++, Python, Java, S QL, P HP, H TML

1 0 y ears o f experience in algorithms a nd object oriented programming

5 + years of experience in cross - platform graphical user interface design

( including mobile and tablet - based platforms)

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PUBLICATIONS

J ournals:

A . Akce, M. Johnson, O. Dantsker, T. Bretl. A brain - machine interface to navigate a

m obile robot in a planar workspace: Enabling humans to fly simulated aircraft with EEG,

I EEE Tran. on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, f orthcoming, 2 013

C . Omar, A . Akce, M. Johnson, T. Bretl, R. Ma, E. Maclin, M. McCormick, and T. P.

C oleman. A feedback information - theoretic approach to the design of brain - computer

i nterfaces, I nt. Journal on HCI, s pecial issue on Current Trends in B CI Research and

D evelopment, 2011

T . Bretl, G. Arechavaleta, A . Akce, J - P. Laumond. Comments on An optimality principle

g overning human walking, I EEE Transactions on Robotics, 2011

C onferences:

A . Akce, J. Norton, and T. Bretl. A brain - machine inter face to navigate mobile robots

a long human - like paths amidst obstacles, I EEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems

( IROS), 2012

A . Akce, and T. Bretl, A compact representation of locally - shortest paths and its

a pplication to a human - robot interfac e, I EEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),

2 011

A .Akce, M.Johnson, and T.Bretl, Remote teleoperation of an unmanned aircraft with a

b rain - machine interface, I EEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010

A .Akce, and T.Bretl, A probabilistic language model for hand drawings, I nternational

C onference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), A ugust 2010

P RESENTATIONS

S elected presentations not including conference talks:

I nvited Talk, Active inference for designing brain - machine interfaces,

L AIRLab, Robotics Institute, Carneige Mellon University, 2012

T alk, Incorporating intent inference and feedback control into the design of brain - robot

i nterfaces, Coordinated Scien ce Laboratory (CSL) Student Conference,

U niversity of Illinois, 2010

P oster, S ymposium on Control and Modeling of Biomedial System s,

U niversity of Illinois, 2010

P oster, School of Information Theory, U niversify of Southern California, 2010

P oster, Fourth I nternational Brain - Computer Interface Meeting, Asilomar, CA, 2010

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