People

Listed below are the people working in our group. We have a diverse group with members from different departments including electronics engineering, control engineering, and nano science & engineering that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of our research.

Director

Mustafa Altun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Electronics and Communication Engineering

Current Scholars/Students

Nihat Akkan Doctoral Candidate Electronics and Communications Engineering	Burak Karadeniz Doctoral Candidate Electronics and Communication Engineering	Mohammadreza Nojehdeh Doctoral Candidate Electronics and Communication Engineering	Beyza Yedikardeş Doctoral Candidate Nano Science and Engineering
Galen Altaş Doctoral Student Nano Science and Engineering	Ikramul Sohel Doctoral Student Nano Science and Engineering

Alumni

Listed below are our graduates and researchers working in our lab with published papers as first authors.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Levent Aksoy, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, 2018-2020
Previously worked in Dialog Semiconductor and ALGOS Research Unit of INESC-ID
Research area: Synthesis of switching lattices and hardware implementations of neural networks
Next position: Postdoctoral researcher at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology

Tuba Ayhan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2016-2018
Ph.D. from Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven
Research area: Approximate circuit and system design
Next position: Assistant professor in MEF University-EE

Doctoral Graduates

Burak Karadeniz
Doctoral Degree, 2023
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Thesis topic: Energy efficient AI hardware design and implementation
Next position: Director of electronic warfare systems at Istanbul Naval Shipyard

Nihat Akkan
Doctoral Degree, 2022
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Thesis topic: Modelling and circuit simulations for semiconductor devices and organic transistors
Next position: R&D engineer in Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC)

Mohammadreza Nojehdeh
Doctoral Degree, 2023
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Thesis topic: Approximate computing and circuit design with neural network hardware implementations
Next position: R&D engineer in Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Masters Graduates

Ece Kurt Masters Degree, 2021 Physics Engineering Thesis topic: Electrochromic materials and organic transistors Next position: R&D engineer in Sisecam	Sajjad Parvin Masters Degree, 2020 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Fault tolerant reversible computing Next position: Doctoral student and research assistant in the University of Bremen - DFKI	Ensar Vahapoğlu Masters Degree, 2018 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Stochastic and bit stream computing Next position: Doctoral student and research assistant in the University of New South Wales - CQC2T	Furkan Peker Masters Degree, 2017 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Variance tolerance for nano-crossbar arrays Next position: Doctoral student in Istanbul Technical University - EHB	Ceylan Morgül Masters Degree, 2017 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Logic synthesis and modeling for nano-crossbar arrays Next position: Researcher in our group & doctoral student and research assistant in the University of Virginia - ECE
Hadi Yadavari Masters Degree, 2016 Control and Automation Engineering Thesis topic: Electronics reliability Next position: Doctoral student and research assistant in the University of Maryland - CALCE	Onur Tunalı Masters Degree, 2016 Nano Science and Engineering Thesis topic: Defect tolerance for nano-crossbar arrays Next position: Project researcher in our group	Vehbi Cömert Masters Degree, 2016 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Electronics reliability with field return data Next position: R&D engineer in TUBITAK Bilgem	Ömercan Susam Masters Degree, 2015 Nano Science and Engineering Thesis topic: Reversible circuit design Next position: Teaching assistant in MEF University-EE and project researcher in our group	Serter Yavuz Masters Degree, 2015 Electronics and Communication Engineering Thesis topic: Stochastic circuit design Next position: R&D engineer in Bilko

Other Researchers

Sadra Rahimi
TUBITAK Project Engineer, 2020-2021
Research area: AI hardware design
Next position: Doctoral student and research assistant at University of Pittsburgh-ECE

Şerzat Safaltın
EU H2020 Project Researcher, 2018-2019
Research area: Technology development for nano-crossbar arrays
Next position: Doctoral student and research assistant in Istanbul Technical University - Materials Engineering