Experience

My professional experience spans university teaching and academic leadership, research and development, software and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, industrial consultancy, project management, process improvement, computer networking, embedded systems, digital hardware/software design, and the evaluation of industrial R&D activities. The experience presented below covers my academic, research, industrial, consultancy, and public-sector evaluation activities over more than three decades.
Professional Experience
Professor — Istanbul Arel University
Institution: Istanbul Arel University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Professor of Computer Engineering
Period: February 2026 – Present
Key Activities:
  • Serving as Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering.
  • Teaching undergraduate Computer Engineering courses, including Software Engineering, Software Requirements Engineering, and Graduation Project.
  • Contributing to undergraduate education, course development, project-based learning, software-engineering education, and senior graduation-project activities.
  • Integrating contemporary Software Engineering practices, Artificial Intelligence tools, modern development environments, and engineering project-management approaches into teaching and student projects.
R&D Center Evaluator — Ministry of Industry and Technology
Institution: Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Türkiye
Position: R&D Center Evaluator
Period: July 2026 – Present
Key Activities:
  • Serving as an evaluator for R&D Centers operating under the supervision and support mechanisms of the Ministry of Industry and Technology.
  • Participating in the evaluation of R&D Center activities, projects, organizational structures, technical capabilities, and R&D outputs.
  • Reviewing information, reports, evidence, and documentation submitted by R&D Centers as part of periodic evaluation activities.
  • Evaluating the progress of activities and assignments defined during commission and evaluation processes and assessing the corresponding work carried out by the R&D Centers.
  • Preparing technical assessments and contributing to the Ministry's evaluation processes for supported R&D Centers.
Referee and Inspector for Industry Projects — TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB
Institution: TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB, Ankara, Turkey
Position: Referee and Inspector for Industry Projects
Period: August 2005 – Present
Key Activities:
  • Reviewing industrial R&D project proposals submitted by companies.
  • Conducting interviews with project teams at their company locations.
  • Evaluating the technical content, R&D characteristics, feasibility, project organization, development approach, and expected outputs of proposed projects.
  • Preparing evaluation and inspection reports for the TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB decision process concerning the funding and monitoring of national and international industrial R&D projects submitted by industry companies.
TÜBİTAK — The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey — is the leading governmental organization for the management, funding, and conduct of research in Turkey. TEYDEB, the Technology and Innovation Grant Programs Directorate within TÜBİTAK, supports research and technology-development projects proposed by industrial organizations.
Independent Consultant
Institution: Freelancer
Position: Consultant
Period: August 2016 – Present
Key Activities:
  • Providing consultancy services to software companies and IT departments of large organizations in Software Engineering, CMMI- or ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE-based process improvement, project management, R&D organizational and team structures, leadership, and teamwork.
  • Providing expertise and technical services to a wide range of industrial organizations in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Cloud Computing and Big Data, IT cloud-infrastructure design, and business-process reengineering.
Professor — Istanbul Atlas University
Institution: Istanbul Atlas University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Professor
Period: March 2022 – January 2026
Key Activities:
  • Teaching: Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence — Public, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Structures with Python for Artificial Intelligence, and Design and Analysis of Algorithms with Python for Artificial Intelligence.
  • BAP Project: Managed the project titled Design and Development of Hardware and Software Frameworks of a Deep Computer for “Artificial Intelligence and Data Science” Fundamental and Research Laboratories .
  • Education Program Development: Prepared seven undergraduate and graduate programs for the Computer Engineering and Software Engineering departments.
  • Education Roadmaps and Laboratory Development: Prepared education roadmaps and hardware-laboratory design and setup guides for the Computer Engineering and Software Engineering departments at Atlas University.
Professor — Istanbul Aydın University
Institution: Istanbul Aydın University, Department of Software Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Professor
Period: February 2019 – February 2022
Key Activities:
  • Initiated and served as the main contributor to the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Master's Program, which became the first master's degree program in the Software Engineering Department.
  • Over three years, taught 10 undergraduate courses representing seven different courses and six graduate courses representing five different courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Microprocessors, and Microcontrollers.
Adjunct Professor — Istanbul Esenyurt University
Institution: Istanbul Esenyurt University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Adjunct Professor
Period: September 2018 – January 2019
Adjunct Professor — Doğuş University
Institution: Doğuş University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Adjunct Professor
Period: September 2018 – January 2019
Consultant — Ankageo
Institution: Ankageo, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Consultant
Period: December 2017 – November 2018
Key Activities:
  • Served as Consultant to the Technical General Manager (CTO) and project teams at Ankageo.
  • Provided consultancy services and seminars on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering.
  • Initiated activities and began producing technical and management documents and guidelines for two projects, Panoramic Cloud and Video Detector, to improve the organization's Project Management, Support, and Software Engineering processes according to TS ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE.
  • Prepared and submitted an organizational process-improvement project proposal to KOSGEB. The project was accepted and supported by KOSGEB. All 15 process requirements for SPICE Level 2 were completed in preparation for certification.
  • The SPICE assessment was successfully completed during the first four-day assessment meeting, and Ankageo received its SPICE certification.
  • Conducted research on Deep Learning frameworks, video object detectors, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms and worked extensively with TensorFlow.
  • Prepared the initial technical blueprints for determining the technologies, Deep Learning frameworks, and Machine Learning algorithms to be used in the Video Detector project.
  • Prepared, contributed to, and evaluated new TÜBİTAK and KOSGEB project proposals submitted by Ankageo. The projects were accepted.
  • Prepared and delivered a new seminar series titled High-Quality Software: Design and Testing in Software Construction.
Consultant / Deputy General Manager for R&D — Teracity Yazılım Teknolojileri
Institution: Teracity Yazılım Teknolojileri, Bursa, Turkey
Position: Consultant; titled Deputy General Manager responsible for R&D projects
Period: February 2017 – December 2017
Key Activities:
  • Served with the title of Deputy General Manager, with responsibility for R&D projects.
  • Served as Consultant and Trainer for the implementation of Software Engineering principles in software projects developed at Teracity.
  • Organized Software Engineering activities for two projects to improve the organization's Project Management, Support, and Software Engineering processes according to TS ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE.
  • This was a one-year process-improvement project supported by KOSGEB, with the objective of obtaining certification after completion of all 15 process requirements for SPICE Level 2.
  • The four-day SPICE assessment was successfully completed, and Teracity received its SPICE certification in November 2017.
  • Prepared the KOSGEB project New Generation Management Information System for R&D Centers — Bilimp v2.0 . The project was accepted and initiated.
  • The project was designed to provide interactive user-interface functions including a 3D talking face, 3D holographic interfaces, a robotic visitor management system, voice-based work-information input, voice-based user alerts and guidance, and biometric user interfaces such as face recognition. These additions were intended to provide the required input/output functions for a future Artificial Intelligence-based version of the system.
  • Conducted research and prepared the initial blueprints for determining technologies, scenarios, and use cases, and developed business and technical requirements for Artificial Intelligence-, Machine Learning-, and cloud-based next-generation projects.
  • Delivered seminars on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining.
  • Participated in TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB project and R&D Center annual-assessment meetings to present projects to reviewers.
  • Contributed to the System/User Requirements and System Architecture of an international TÜBİTAK project.
Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams — Teracity
Institution: Teracity Yazılım Teknolojileri, Bursa, Turkey
Position: Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams
Period: November 2016 – December 2016
Key Activities:
  • Served as Consultant to the General Manager and project teams at Teracity.
  • Delivered seminars on Software Engineering fundamentals.
  • Initiated activities to improve organizational management, support, and Software Engineering processes according to TS ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE.
Professor and Head of Department — Gediz University
Institution: Gediz University, Department of Computer Engineering, İzmir, Turkey
Position: Professor and Head of Department
Period: September 2010 – July 2016
Key Activities:
  • Served as Head of the Department of Computer Engineering from September 2010 to July 2016.
  • Served as a member of the Engineering Faculty Executive Board from January 2011 to October 2014 and the Engineering Faculty Board from September 2011 to July 2016.
  • Served as a member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Graduate Studies in Sciences and Engineering from December 2010 to June 2013 and the Institute Board from September 2010 to July 2016.
  • Contributed to the establishment of 30% English and 100% English undergraduate Computer Engineering programs in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The first program was later closed.
  • The curriculum was primarily designed to satisfy the requirements of the IEEE/ACM Joint Curriculum Committee. ABET, ECTS, the European Bologna Process, and the needs of Turkish industry were also taken into consideration.
  • Contributed to establishing a joint Systems Engineering graduate program with the Department of Industrial Engineering in 2011.
  • Contributed to establishing a 100% English Computer Engineering graduate program, which began in 2014.
  • Founded three Computer Hardware Engineering laboratories between September 2011 and September 2013: Logic and Computer Design Laboratory, Microprocessors and Embedded Systems Laboratory, and Computer Networks Laboratory.
  • Developed the initial contents of courses and laboratory activities and taught courses based on these laboratories.
  • Over six years, taught 26 undergraduate courses representing 15 different courses and 10 graduate courses representing eight different courses in Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Computer Networking, and Computer Hardware Engineering.
  • Supervised one master's thesis and three senior design projects.
  • Worked as Principal Investigator and Researcher in the NetSE (Networking and Software Engineering) Laboratory.
  • Served as Consultant to Institute Directors and project teams at TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM between January 2012 and December 2014.
  • Served as an Executive Committee Member at TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB-BİLTEG from June 2012 to June 2014.
Consultant to Institute Directors and Project Teams — TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Institution: TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
Position: Consultant to Institute Directors and Project Teams
Period: January 2012 – December 2014
Workload: Four days per week in 2014; two days per week in 2012–2013
Key Activities:
  • Provided consultancy to Institute Directors and project teams on Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, and Project Management at TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM-BTE.
  • Provided consultancy on Software Engineering management, R&D organizational structures, and processes appropriate for TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM during the reorganization of the TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM institutes in 2012.
Executive Committee Member — TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB-BİLTEG
Institution: TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB-BİLTEG, Ankara, Turkey
Position: Executive Committee Member
Period: July 2012 – May 2014
Key Activities:
  • Evaluated Information Technology projects proposed by companies in Turkey.
  • Participated in decisions concerning project funding.
  • Participated in assigning academic and industrial referees and inspectors to accepted projects.
  • The TEYDEB-BİLTEG Executive Committee met approximately twice per month and evaluated approximately 40 projects per month.
  • Approximately 1,000 projects were assessed during the two-year period.
Professor and Head of Department — Haliç University
Institution: Haliç University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Professor and Head of Department
Period: September 2008 – September 2010
Key Activities:
  • Served as Head of Department from March 2009 to September 2010.
  • Served as a member of the Engineering Faculty Executive Board and Faculty Board from September 2008 to September 2010.
  • Served as a member of the Board of the Institute for Graduate Studies in Sciences and Engineering from March 2009 to September 2010.
  • Contributed to establishing a 30% English undergraduate program.
  • Taught six undergraduate courses representing five different courses and three graduate courses in Software Engineering and Computer Networking.
  • Worked as Principal Investigator and Researcher in the NetSE Laboratory.
  • Supervised seven master's theses and two senior design projects.
  • Served as Consultant to the General Manager and project teams at Metro Istanbul from September 2008 to April 2009.
Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams — Metro Istanbul
Institution: Metro Istanbul — Istanbul ULAŞIM A.Ş., Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams
Period: September 2008 – April 2009
Key Activities:
  • Served as Consultant to the General Manager and project teams at Metro Istanbul.
  • Established the initial R&D infrastructure, including railway-signalling literature and information infrastructure, railway-signalling laboratory requirements, development-team structures, team processes, and team dynamics.
  • Produced the initial roadmap, technical blueprints, requirements-analysis and system-design documents, and railway-signalling simulator programs.
Associate Professor — Fatih University
Institution: Fatih University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Associate Professor
Period: August 2002 – August 2008
Key Activities:
  • Served as a member of the Engineering Faculty Executive Board and Faculty Board from October 2002 to May 2007.
  • Served as a member of the Information Technologies Committee from June 2006 to July 2008.
  • Founded a Computer Networks Laboratory.
  • Over six years, taught 32 undergraduate courses representing nine different courses and 12 graduate courses representing six different courses in Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, and Computer Hardware Engineering.
  • Supervised two master's theses and nine senior design projects.
  • Worked as Principal Investigator and Researcher in the NetSE Laboratory.
  • Consulted project teams at BELBİM from July 2006 to October 2006.
  • Served as Consultant and Referee for KOSGEB-supported projects from June 2004 to August 2008.
  • Consulted the General Manager and project teams at İSBAK from August 2005 to March 2006.
  • Consulted the General Manager and project teams at Europe Software, Istanbul, from January 2004 to February 2005.
  • Consulted project teams at BELBİM from May 2003 to December 2003.
Consultant and Referee — KOSGEB Projects
Institution: KOSGEB-supported Projects
Position: Consultant and Referee
Period: June 2004 – August 2008
Key Activities:
  • Served as Consultant and Referee to companies for projects supported by KOSGEB.
Consultant to Project Teams — BELBİM
Institution: BELBİM — Istanbul Municipalities Data Processing Industry & Trade Inc.
Position: Consultant to Project Teams
Period: July 2006 – October 2006
Key Activities:
  • Provided consultancy to project teams on project management and administrative and technical management processes at BELBİM.
Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams — İSBAK
Institution: İSBAK — Istanbul Municipalities Transportation Maintenance Industries and Trade Inc., Istanbul
Position: Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams
Period: August 2005 – March 2006
Key Activities:
  • Served as Consultant to the General Manager and project teams at İSBAK.
  • Worked on system design and on processor and software-tool selection for a new-generation microprocessor-based traffic-junction control unit intended to replace older PLC-based control units in Istanbul.
  • Delivered seminars on object-oriented analysis, design, and programming using Java and UML.
Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams — Europe Software
Institution: Europe Software, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Consultant to the General Manager and Project Teams
Period: January 2004 – February 2005
Key Activities:
  • Provided consultancy to the General Manager and project teams on organizational structures and processes, technologies, project management, software-development processes, and enterprise-system architectures.
  • Worked on ERP applications including Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, and Product Management, as well as banking applications.
  • Delivered seminars on object-oriented analysis and design using Design Patterns, UML, and Java.
Consultant to Project Teams — BELBİM / AKBİL Smart Ticket System
Institution: BELBİM — Istanbul Municipalities Data Processing Industry & Trade Inc.
Position: Consultant to Project Teams
Period: May 2003 – December 2003
Key Activities:
  • Consulted project teams on system architecture, technologies, and software-development processes for projects of the AKBİL Smart Ticket System.
  • The work included the Automatic Sales Machine, Ticket Sales Machine, and Data Transfer and Automatic Integration systems.
  • Delivered seminars on object-oriented analysis and design using Design Patterns, UML, and Java.
Chief Researcher, Project Manager and Associate Professor — TÜBİTAK-UEKAE
Institution: TÜBİTAK-UEKAE — National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
Position: Chief Researcher (Başuzman Araştırmacı), Project Manager, Associate Professor
Period: May 1997 – July 2002
Key Activities:
  • Worked as Project Manager and System Architect in the IP Crypto Devices Management System Project from May 1999 to July 2002.
  • Worked as Project Manager in various institute-level process-improvement teams from August 2000 to December 2001.
  • Worked as Project Member and System Architect in the TAFICS — Turkish Armed Forces Integrated Communication System — Electronic Key Management System (TELAYS) from May 1997 to May 1999.
  • Served as a part-time instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Computer Engineering at Marmara University from September 1997 to January 2002.
Lecturer — Marmara University
Institution: Marmara University, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Position: Lecturer
Period: September 1997 – January 2002
Key Activities:
  • Taught two graduate courses and one undergraduate course.
  • Supervised one master's thesis and several undergraduate theses.
Co-founder, Software Projects Manager, System and Software Architect — ELKOSİS
Institution: ELKOSİS — Electronic Control Systems, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
Position: Co-founder, Software Projects Manager, System and Software Architect
Period: September 1995 – June 1997
Key Activities:
  • Worked as Co-founder, Software Projects Manager, and System and Software Architect at ELKOSİS.
  • Developed, for Federal Elektrik and the Turkish market, a prototype of a new electronic electricity-meter device featuring prepayment, a smart card, and an associated PC application.
Instructor — Uludağ University
Institution: Uludağ University, Department of Electronics Engineering
Position: Instructor (Öğretim Görevlisi)
Period: March 1990 – May 1997
Key Activities:
  • Taught nine different undergraduate courses in Electronics Engineering, Computer Hardware Engineering, and Computer Programming over seven years.
  • Founded the BilDET — Computer-Aided Electronics Design Laboratory — and established a student research team.
  • Supervised approximately 15 senior design projects.
  • Worked as System Architect and Electronics Engineer in a joint project developed with MİSTAŞ A.Ş. from March 1992 to September 1992.
  • Worked as Consultant to project teams and Software Developer at the TÜBİTAK-Marmara Research Center, Department of Electronics, Gebze, Kocaeli, from September 1992 to December 1995.
  • Worked as Co-founder, Software Projects Manager, and System and Software Architect at ELKOSİS, Gebze, Kocaeli, from September 1995 to June 1997.
Consultant to Project Teams and Software Developer — TÜBİTAK-Marmara Research Center
Institution: TÜBİTAK-Marmara Research Center, Department of Electronics, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
Position: Consultant to Project Teams and Software Developer
Period: September 1992 – December 1995
Key Activities:
  • Developed a block-diagram-based object-oriented Digital Signal Processing software environment.
  • Developed a hardware-debugger program for a dual-processor parallel DSP system based on TMS320C25 processors.
  • Worked on various hardware- and software-engineering and digital signal/image-processing projects.
  • Worked with different microprocessors, microcontrollers, and special-purpose processors including TMS320C25 and TMS320C30 DSP processors, as well as PC data-acquisition and I/O boards.
Member of the Galaxy CAD Environment Project Team — University of Wisconsin–Madison
Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA
Position: Member of the Galaxy CAD Environment Project Team
Period: September 1987 – December 1989
Key Activities:
  • Developed the Galaxy Hardware Description Language (GHDL) as part of my master's studies.
  • GHDL was one of the tools of the Galaxy CAD Environment developed by Prof. John F. Beetem and his students. Galaxy was developed for digital-circuit simulation.
  • GHDL, as part of the Galaxy CAD Environment, was used at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and at many other universities in the United States and subsequently became a commercial product.
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