I was born in Cankiri, Turkey, in 1981. I grew up in Izmir, a beautiful city located on the west coast of Turkey, neighboring Greece over the Aegean Sea. I received my Master's from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and consequently my Ph.D. from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in March 2010. The city, Yokohama - Blue light Yokohama, is sort of a "feels-like-my-hometown" place in Japan. My Ph.D. thesis was concerning dynamically consistent trajectory generation and control of humanoid robots; and supervised by Atsuo Kawamura. Throughout my Ph.D. period, I was granted with MEXT Scholarship, funded by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Upon receiving the Ph.D., I became a post-doc researcher in Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy, in the Department of Advanced Robotics, run by Darwin Caldwell. I loved Italy and IIT but it turned out my family would have been much happier in Japan (due to highly-complicated Italian immigration laws); leaving us no choice but heading back to where we started after a somewhat heart breaking split up with the land of basil-mozzarella-tomato. Having spent 2 years in Toyota Technological Institute as a post-doc, I am now a research scientist in Computational Neuroscience Labs. of ATR International, Kyoto, Japan, working in a group led by Mitsuo Kawato and Jun Morimoto.
Favorite Scientists: Leonhard Euler, Richard Feynman, Cahit Arf
Favorite Researchers: Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Roy Featherstone, Erhan Oztop
People I enjoy(ed) to work with: Petar Kormushev, Claudio Semini, Ioannis Havoutis, Ozkan Bebek
Favorite Homie: Natteo Laffranchi