Kerem Altun

Assistant Professor

Control and Automation Engineering

Yıldız Technical University

Office: A205

Phone: +90 212 383 5963

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Short bio

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.

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My academic genealogy

My PhD thesis supervisor was Prof. Billur Barshan. Here's my academic lineage, where every person in the list is the PhD supervisor of the person above them. I am proud to be a descendant of these great scholars who contributed so much to science and engineering. The information here is based on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Kerem Altun, PhD, Bilkent University, 2011
Billur Barshan, PhD, Yale University, 1991
Roman Kuc, PhD, Columbia University, 1977
Mischa Schwartz, PhD, Harvard University, 1951
Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, PhD, Université de Paris, 1926
C. Émile Picard, PhD, École Normale Supérieure Paris, 1877
Gaston Darboux, PhD, École Normale Supérieure Paris, 1866
Michel Chasles, PhD, École Polytechnique, 1814
Siméon Denis Poisson, PhD, École Polytechnique, 1800

Poisson had two advisors, Laplace and Lagrange. So my genealogy tree branches here:

Pierre-Simon Laplace, M.A., Université de Caen, 1769

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, M.A., Collège Mazarin, 1735

(d’Alembert’s advisor is unknown, this branch ends here)

Joseph Louis Lagrange, (he had no graduate degree, but Euler is included to “show a connection in our intellectual heritage”)

Leonhard Euler, PhD, Universität Basel, 1726

Johann Bernoulli, Medicinæ Dr., Universität Basel, 1694

Johann Bernoulli had two advisors. The list again branches here.

(The list goes deeper, including Leibniz, Huygens, Copernicus, and many others, supposedly up to as early as Nasir al-Din Tusi.)