Erdal Kayacan

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. Kayacan is co-writer of a course book “Fuzzy Neural Networks for Real Time Control Applications, 1st Edition Concepts, Modeling and Algorithms for Fast Learning“, Butterworth-Heinemann, Print Book ISBN:9780128026878. (17 Sept 2015). He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). From 1st Jan 2017, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

His research areas are computational intelligence methods, sliding mode control, model predictive control, mechatronics and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Research interests

• Artificial intelligence
• Intelligent control
• Robotics
• Mechatronics
• Sliding mode control
• Unmanned aerial vehicles

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2018/4 - Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2014/3 - 2018/4 Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• 2011/9 - 2014/3 Post-doctoral Researcher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors
• 2005/8 - 2011/9 Teaching Assistant, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 2009/9 - 2009/12 Visiting Ph.D. scholar, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Department of Informatics
• 2004/9 - 2005/2 Electrical Engineer, Arcelik Corporation, Istanbul, Turkey. Department of Research and Development

EDUCATION

My main research interests and contributions lie within the areas of control systems, computational intelligence and robotic vision with applications in guidance, control and automation of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles.

• Sep. 2011 Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
  Major: Control theory
  Advisor: Prof. Okyay Kaynak
  
• Jun. 2006 M.Sc. in Systems and Control Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
  Major: Control theory
  Advisor: Prof. Okyay Kaynak
  
• Jun. 2003 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul
  Major: Power electronics