Professional Societies/Organizations
· Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
o Member of IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS)
o Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
· Member of the Turkish National Committee of Automatic Control, the national branch of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), October 2008 – present.
Editorial Activities
· Guest editor for ELEKTRİK (The Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) of a special issue on “Swarm Robotics,” July 2007.
· M. Ö. Efe and V. Gazi (eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), November 2006, Ankara.
Conference and Workshop Activities
· Invited Sessions Co-Chair: Asian Control Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2013.
· Registration Chair: IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2012.
· Member of the Organizing Committee: RoboCup2011, İstanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
· Member of the Program Committee: 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2010.
· Member of the Program Committee: ANTS 2010 Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, September 2010.
· Session Chair: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2009 (TOK09), Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, October 2009.
· Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2009 (TOK09), Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, October 2009.
· Associate Editor: 21’st Chinese Conference on Decision and Control (CCDC 2009), Guilin, Peoples Republic of China, June 2009.
· Session Chair: The Second International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Odense, Denmark, April 2009.
· Session Chair: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2008 (TOK08), İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, November 2008.
· Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2008 (TOK08), İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, November 2008.
· General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, July 2008.
· Member of the Program Committee: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2007 (TOK07), Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, September 2007.
· Organizer of the Special Session on Multi-Robot Systems: Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control 2007 (TOK07), Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, September 2007.
· General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.
· Member of the Program Committee: 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2007), Harbin, Peoples Republic of China, May 2007.
· Member of the Program Committee: IEEE SMC UK&RI 6th Conference on Cybernetic Systems 2007, University College Dublin, Ireland, September 2007.
· Member of the Program Committee: Workshop on Swarm Robotics organized in conjunction with From Animals to Animats 9, Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06), September 2006, Roma, Italy.
· Technical Program Co-Chair: 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, November 2006.
· Member of the Program Committee: 2006 Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK06), TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, November 2006.
· General Chair: TOBB ETU Multi-Agent and Networked Dynamic Control Systems Workshop, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, July 2006.
· Member of the Program Committee: 13’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED05), Limassol, Cyprus, June 2005.
· Publicity Co-Chair: 12’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED04), Kuşadası, Turkey, June 2004.
· Member of the Program Committee: 12’th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED04), Kuşadası, Turkey, June 2004.
· Session Chair: IEEE Conference on Control Applications, İstanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
· Session Chair: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003.
· Helped in organizing the OSU Controls Workshop, April 1997 and April 1999, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Technical Publication Reviewer (Partial List)
· IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
· IEEE Transactions on Robotics
· Automatica
· IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
· IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
· SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
· Systems and Control Letters
· IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
· IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
· IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
· International Journal of Systems Science
· International Journal of Control
· Fuzzy Sets and Systems
· Physics Letters A
· Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
· ACM Computing Surveys
· International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
· IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
· American Control Conference
· International Symposium on Intelligent Control
· IEEE Conference on Control Applications
· IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
· IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
· IFAC World Congress
Other Review Activities
· Reviewer, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology, RTD Research Centers Program, January 2012.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, November 2011.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, June 2011.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, May 2010.
· Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Technical Entrepreneurship Projects Program, February-March 2010.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, December 2009.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, April 2009.
· Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Technical Entrepreneurship Projects Program, May 2009.
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, November 2008.
· Project Progress Reviewer, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Industrial Thesis Research Projects Program, June 2008 - …
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, October 2007.
· Review Panel Member, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry, Industrial Thesis Research Projects Program, September 2007.
· Project Initiation or Progress Reviewer, TÜBİTAK TEYDEB Program Industrial Projects, November 2006 - …
· Project Progress Reviewer, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, December 2006-…
· Review Panel Member, TÜBİTAK Research Projects, October 2005.
Internal (University) Service Activities
· Undergraduate Student Advising, Atılım University, September 2002 – August 2004.
· Participated in Atılım University Publicity Activities, September 2002 – August 2004.
· Contributed to curriculum development, Atılım University, September 2002 – August 2004.
· Undergraduate Student Advising, TOBB ETU, September 2004 – August 2010.
· Contributed to curriculum development, TOBB ETU, September 2004 – August 2010.
· Member of the Student Activities Committee, TOBB ETU, 2004-2005 Academic Year.
· Academic Advisor, TOBB ETU Turkish Folklore Studies Association, TOBB ETU, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Academic Years.
· Prepared TOBB ETU Internal Scientific Research Projects Support Guidelines Document, February-March 2005.
· Member of the Committee for the University Web site in English, TOBB ETÜ, 2005-2006 Academic Year.
· Member of the University Strategic Planning Committee, TOBB ETÜ, 2006-2007 Academic Year.
· Participated in TOBB ETU Publicity Activities, September 2004-August 2010.
· Served in TOBB ETU Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department Faculty Hiring Committee.
· Academic Advisor, İstanbul Kemerburgaz University robotics Club, October 2011 – present.
· Member and Chair of the Ethics Committee, İstanbul Kemerburgaz University, August 2011 – present.
External Service Activities
· Served in several MS Defense Committees, Atılım University.
· Served in many MS and PhD Defense Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering.
· Served and continuing to serve in many MS and PhD Defense Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
· Serving in many PhD Progress Evaluation Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
· Serving in many PhD Progress Evaluation Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
· Serving in many PhD Qualifying Exam Committees, Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
· Served in PhD Defense Committee, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, December 2007.
· Served as Evaluation Panel Member, the 1’st and the 2’nd Robotic Contest organized by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Education, High School Technical Education Branch, 2007 and 2008.
· National Expert, European Union 7’the Framework Programme, Information and Communication Technologies, 2007 – 2009.