Smart America Challenge 2013: “Autonomous Vehicles on a Humanitarian Mission (Smart Emergency Response System)” – showcased at the White House – with P.J. Mosterman, D. E. Sanabria, K. Zhang and J. Zander.
Bilkent University High Honor & Honor Student Standings – 2006-2010.
Awards:
AMD Spotlight Award – January 2016.
The IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge: Student Projects Changing the World, Honorable Mention & Award (Among 117 Projects from 28 Countries) – 2012.
Boston University Science and Engineering Day, CISE Honorable Mention & Award – 2012.
National OR Congress (YA/EM), Student Project Contest 2nd Prize – 2010.
National University Entrance Exam, Verbal Ranking: 118th, Quantitative Ranking: 738th (Out of 1.4 Million Participants) – 2006.
Doğuş University Istanbul-wide High Schools Math Contest, 3rd Place in Individuals – 2006.
Sabancı University Istanbul-wide High Schools Math Contest, 1st Place in Teams, 4th Place in Individuals – 2006.
Grants/Fellowships:
Boston Univ. Div. of Systems Eng. Travel Award for 52nd IEEE CDC Dec. 2012, Florence, Italy.
IEEE Control Systems Society Travel Award for 52nd IEEE CDC Dec. 2012, Florence, Italy.
Boston Univ. Div. of Systems Eng. Travel Award for 51st IEEE CDC Dec 2012, Maui, HI, USA.
Boston University, Research Assistantship – 2011-2013.
Boston University Graduate Teaching Fellowship (Full Tuition and Stipend) – 2010.
Bilkent University Scholarship, Full Tuition & Stipend – 2006 – 2010.
Awards to Supervised Projects
“IDEA-D: Intelligent Disease Exposing with Autonomous Drones” w. Ali Hamad, Farris Adra.
JSSE – Finalist – Hong Kong 2015.
H-SEF – 2nd place in “Engineering” – Houston, TX 2015.
Austin Energy Regional Science Festival – 2nd place in “Computer Science” – Austin, TX 2015.