Tapir Lab. member and EE Department Senior student Halil Said Cankurtaran successfully presented his paper entitled “An Acoustic Signal Based Language Independent Lip Synchronization Method and Its Implementation via Extended LPC” on October 5th, 2020 at the 28th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU). EE Department wishes him continued success. Details of the study could be accessed online on the Tapir Lab.’s GitHub page under MIT License.
The IEEE Region 8 Virtual Students and Young Professionals (vSYP) Congress took place from September 14th – 26th, 2020 virtually on Crowdcast. Last day of the Congress was hosted by IEEE Turkey Section and IEEE Turkey Section Vice-Chair Dr. Tunçer Baykaş, Treasurer Simay Akar, Student Activities Coordinator Dr. Murat Tümer, Young Professionals AG Ömer Melih Gül, and Professional Development and Educational Activities Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Serhan Yarkan have attended the Congress, and introduced the IEEE Turkey section, and some of the organizational activities. On the 13th day of the Congress, three different speakers have presented and one discussion panel has been organized. Additionally, SAC and YP have presented and announced awards won by members from Region 8.
Özgür Alaca, a Tapir Lab. member in EE Department at Istanbul Commerce University (ICU), has been accepted into Ph.D. program with full-scholarship in EE Department at Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. Özgür Alaca, as being both EE undergraduate and graduate level student at ICU, will be pursuing his Ph.D. studies in the field of wireless communications, deep learning, and statistical signal processing. EE Department would like to congratulate him and Tapir Lab. and appreciate the effort he put in on the projects carried out in both EE Department and Tapir Lab. during his time in here!
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.
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.
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)
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.
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Ticaret EE attended the workshop organized by The Presidency of Defence Industries in Ankara, Turkey, on November 8th, 2019 along with several important shareholders active in defense industries. Beside attending the workshop, Ticaret EE shared its results and real field performance output successfully as well for the project that is funded by The Presidency of Defence Industries.
The IEEE 16th Multi-Conference on Signals Systems and Devices ( SSD’19 ) was hosted by Istanbul Commerce University and Tapir Lab. at Sütlüce, Istanbul, Turkey from 21st to 24th of March, 2019. During the conference 4 plenary sessions, 4 keynote lectures and 28 oral sessions was held.
SSD’19 multi-conference is organized to include 4 conferences covering different fundamental and applied aspects:
SSD’19 secretariat has received 249 submissions from 28 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, P.R. China, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA. Each paper has been reviewed by at least two reviewers of the program committee which consisted of more than 100 scientists from more than 30 countries. Only 144 papers have been accepted.
SSD’19 was the largest conferece hosted by Istanbul Commerce University and organized by Tapir Lab. Specialists from different countries gathered together to discuss and present novalities in the field of signals, systems and devices. Also, SSD’19 provided the possibility of meeting with engineers and scientist to the students of Istanbul Commerce University.
Tapir Lab. took active part in various ways in SSD’19 including transportation, accommodation, organization handling, logistics, and gala dinner. SSD’19 has been a great success for Tapir Lab. as well!
Tapir Lab. thanks Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for being a sponsor of SSD’19.
