Kerem Altun

Assistant Professor

Control and Automation Engineering

Office: A205

Phone: +90 212 383 5963

News

I will give a tutorial talk on "Wearable IMUs in Human Movement Analysis: An Engineering Perspective on Theory and Applications" at icSPORTS 2026.
Our paper titled "Predicting ground reaction forces in volleyball players' jumps using electromyography and inertial measurement units" will be presented at icSPORTS 2026 and will be published in the proceedings.
In Fall 2026, I am teaching
- KOM1021 Linear Algebra and Applications in Control Engineering
- KOM5103 Mathematical Methods in Control Engineering
My co-author Elif Tekin has presented our paper titled "Knee Angle Estimation Invariant to Sensor Placement with Magnetometer-Free Inertial Sensors" (in Turkish) at SIU 2026.
I am co-organizing the Mathematics for Engineers Summer School (in Turkish) at Nesin Matematik Köyü in September 2026.
TÜBİTAK 1001 project titled "Asymmetry Measurement in Volleyball Spike and Jump Motions Using Wearable Inertial Sensors" has started (March 2025).

I was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1977. After graduating from the AAAL high school in 1995, I continued to study at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University, where I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1999 and 2002. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Billur Barshan. In 2011 – 2012, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia, as a member of the Sensory Perception and Interaction (SPIN) research group directed by Prof. Karon MacLean. As assistant professor, I was at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University (2012 – 2016), Isik University (2016 – 2020, 2022 – 2024) and Izmir Institute of Technology (2020 – 2022). I joined Yıldız Technical University in March 2024.

My PhD thesis supervisor was Prof. Billur Barshan. My genealogy tree includes many great scholars such as Laplace, d'Alembert, Lagrange, Euler, Bernoulli, Bernoulli, Leibniz, Huygens, Copernicus, and many others, apparently up to as early as Nasir al-Din Tusi. I am proud to be a descendant of these great scholars who contributed so much to science and engineering. This information is based on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Here is my tree for 15 academic generations: