Research Group of M. Ilhan Akbas, Ph.D.
M. Ilhan Akbas is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). He is the co-director of ERAU’s Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WIDE Lab) and a member of the Center for Aerospace Resilience (CAR) at ERAU. Dr. Akbas and his research group's research interests span topics and applications on Connected and Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things and Modeling & Simulation of complex systems supported through grants from agencies such as National Science of Foundation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Naval Research, as well as industry.
Our research group is always willing to work with motivated graduate and undergraduate students on topics related to our research interests. Please see our research page for more information on research activities and advising page for the current and previous students. For more information on the projects and grants, please visit the projects page.
Dr. Akbas has been teaching at every level of electrical engineering and computer science curriculum and actively working on the course and curriculum development. He also has more than eight years of industry experience in defense industry and enterprise level software development. Dr. Akbas received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he conducted research at the AI Things Lab and received the Interdisciplinary Information Science and Technology Laboratory Fellowship. His BS and MS degrees are from the Dep. of Electrical and Electronics Eng, METU. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIAA, SAE, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE IoT and Cloud Computing Communities, International Alliance for Mobility Testing and Standardization (IAMTS), Complex Systems Society and Cyber Safety Commercial Aviation Team (CSCAT).
e-mail: akbasm @ erau . edu
Recent Highlights
We presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (IEEE MOST).
Our group and other participants at the EagleCam project are recognized on the US Senate floor. (Link to the statement)
Our NSF REU Site is now accepting applications from undergraduate students. Please apply at 👉ETAP.
Dr. Akbas gave a talk titled ``Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity'' at the Aviation Cyber Initiative (ACI) N-FACTOR Meeting.
Dr. Akbas is the PI of the ERAU CoE/Boeing Center for Aviation and Aerospace Safety Collaborative Seed Grant for the project "Open-Source V\&V Framework for Artificial Intelligence Controlled Aerial Vehicles."
We presented two papers at Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
We presented two demos (PolyVerif and our Urban 3D ABM) at the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN).
Our paper presenting our open-source autonomous vehicle V&V framework is published in IEEE Access.
Dr. Akbas is the PI for the FAA project, "Aviation Cyber Security Data Science (CSDS)".
The paper presenting our collaboration with Tallinn Institute of Technology to validate their autonomous shuttle is published in IEEE Access.
