Curriculum Vitae
FEZA KERESTECİOĞLU

Contact Information

Education

Work and Research Experience

Awards

Administrative Duties and Professional Activities

Personal Data

Publications

Contact Information

Address: Bilgisayar Müh. Böl., Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Kadir Has Cad., Cibali, Fatih, Istanbul, 34083, Turkey
Phone: +90-212-533 65 32 ext. 1403
E-mail:
URL: http://webprs.khas.edu.tr/~kerestec/

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Education

·         Ph.D.

Control Systems Centre, 1992
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, U.K.

·         M.Sc.

Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, 1985
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

·         B.Sc. (Honor)

Department of Electrical Engineering, 1983
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Research Interests

Control systems and applications, change (fault) detection and condition monitoring, input and experiment design, sequential decision theory, robot swarms, engineering education, indoor positioning, English-medium instruction, content and language integrated learning

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Work and Research Experience

·         March 2012 –

Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

·         February 2004 – March 2012

Professor, Department of (Electrical-)Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

·         June 2003 – February 2004

Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Courses taught: CE 134 Logic Circuits, EE 205 Digital Design, EE 352 Control Systems, EE 451 Control Technology, MA 101 Calculus I, MA 205 Probability and Statistics, IE 202 Probability, EE 501 Probability and Stochastic Processes, EE 502 Linear Systems, EEE 308 Control Systems Project, KHAS 102 Scientific Discoveries and Engineering, CMPE 263 Fundamentals of Electronic Circuits, CE236 Electrical and Logic Circuits Laboratory

Project participations: Cost Action CA21114: CLIL Network for Languages in Education: Towards Bi-and Multilingual Disciplinary Literacies (CLIL NetLE) (Participant, sponsored by E.U.); Neurotechnological Solutions Platform for Challenges Threatening Human Function (Researcher, sponsored by TÜBİTAK); The Development of Ultra-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Nano-Scale Digital Circuits for Quantum Computing (Researcher, sponsored by TÜBİTAK); ENRICH:English as a Lingua Franca Practices for Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms (Researcher, sponsored by E.U.); Developing an In-Service Training Framework for Instructors in English Medium Universities (Researcher, sponsored by TÜBİTAK); Blended Methods in Engineering Education (Principal Investigator, sponsored by KHas Research Fund)

Ph.D. thesis supervised: Multi-Sensor Indoor Positioning (Tarik Ayabakan, 2022)

·         February 1997 – June 2003

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

June 1993 – February 1997

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

January 1993 – June 1993

Instructor, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Courses taught: BIO 165 Introduction to Computer Usage, BM 513 Electricity for Biomedicine, BS 100 Introduction to Computing, ECE 203 Stochastic Processes in Engineering, EE 140 Digital Systems, EE 201 Electrical Circuits I EE 202 Electrical Circuits II, EE 208 Electrical Engineering Laboratory, EE 321 Electrical Networks II, EE 327 Electrical Networks Laboratory, EE 450 Control Technology and Design, EE 652 Adaptive Control, EE 655 Stochastic Systems and Control, EE 692 Directed Research

Projects conducted: System Optimisation for Change Detection (sponsored by TÜBİTAK and B.U. Research Fund); Adaptive Control of Aerodynamically Driven Missiles (sponsored by TÜBİTAK-SAGE), Predictive Control of Aerodynamically Driven Missiles (sponsored by TÜBİTAK-SAGE and B.U. Research Fund), Aerodynamic Control of Guided Missiles (sponsored by B.U. Research Fund), Reconfigurable Fault Tolerant Control (sponsored by B.U. Research Fund)

Theses supervised: Effects of sampling rate on change detection (M.Sc., Mustafa V. Çağdaş, 1995), Auxiliary input design for detecting changes towards unknown hypotheses (M.Sc., İlker Çetin, 1996), Nonuniform sampling rate selection for statistical change detection (M.Sc., Sezai Tokat, 1997), Fault diagnosis of robotic manipulators using statistical tests (M.Sc., Bekir Sami Nalbantoğlu, 1997), Adaptive control of aerodynamically driven missiles (M.Sc., Ufuk Demirci, 1998), Predictive control of aerodynamically driven missiles (M.Sc., Türker Koçpınar, 1998), Fuzzy control of aerodynamically driven missiles (M.Sc., Metin Yıldırım, 2001), Reconfiguring sliding-mode controller for underwater vehicles (Ph.D., Ufuk Demirci, 2004)

·         October 1987 – January 1993

Research Assistant, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

On leave for Ph.D. studies in UMIST until 1992 September.

·         October 1987 – July 1992

Ph.D. Student, Control Systems Centre, UMIST, U.K.

·         October 1988 – December 1990, intermittently

Laboratory Demonstrator, Control Systems Centre, UMIST, U.K.

·         September 1986 – September 1987

Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

·         September 1985 – September 1986

Software Test Engineer, Northern Electric Telecom. A.Ş., Istanbul, Turkey.

·         October 1983 – September 1985

Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Awards

·         Teaching Award, Kadir Has University, 2018.

·         Publication Award, Kadir Has University Rectorate, 2005.

·         Post-Doctoral Short-Term Research Scholarship, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1994.

·         Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, 1988–1990.

·         Undergraduate Studentship, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1978–1983.

·         Awards to 50 Highest Scorers of the Universities' Election and Placement Examination, Türkiye İş Bankası, 1978.

·         Highschool Student Bursary, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1976–1978.

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Administrative Duties and Professional Activities

·         Co-Chair, 14th International Free Linguistics Conference, 2023.

·         Member, Prevention of Gender-Based Violence Unit, 2021–.

·         Member, Academic Principles Committee, 2021–2022.

·         Member, Quality Assurance Committee, 2018–2021, 2022–.

·         Accreditation Evaluator, Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK), 2018–.

·         Faculty Representative, Kadir Has University Senate, 2018–2020.

·         Co-Chair, Symposium on EMI Education at Universities: A Holistic Approach, 2018.

·         Executive Committee Member, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, 2017–2018.

·         Organizing Committee Member, 13th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, 2014.

·         Project Evaluator, TÜBİTAK-ARDEB, 2013–2018.

·         Editorial Board Member, Panorama KHAS Journal, 2012–2018.

·         Project Manager, SAP-Based Student Affairs Management System, 2012–2018.

·         Chairperson, Department of Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, 2012–2022.

·         Member, Disabled Students Unit Committee, 2010–2015.

·         Member, Academic Ethics Committee, 2010–2014.

·         Member, University Legislation Committee, 2010–2012.

·         Member, Double Major and Minors Program Committee, 2010–2012.

·         Member, Conference Support Evaluation Committee, 2009–2010.

·         Acting Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Kadir Has University, 2008–2011.

·         Member, Bologna Process Coordination Committee, 2009–.

·         Member, Curriculum Evaluation Committee, 2008–2010.

·         Project Evaluator and Supervisor, TÜBİTAK–SAVTAG 2007–2011.

·         Director, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Kadir Has University, 2006–2008.

·         Deputy Director, Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, Kadir Has University, 2005–2008.

·         Chairperson, Department of Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, 2004–2007 and 2008–2009.

·         Executive Committee Member, Institute of Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 2000–2002.

·         Project Evaluator and Supervisor, TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB (formerly TİDEB).1998–2006.

·         Deputy Chairperson, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 1998–2002.

·         Faculty Committee Member, Engineering Faculty, Boğaziçi University, 1997–2000.

·         Deputy Director, Mechatronics Research and Application Center, Boğaziçi University, 1997–2000.

·         Organizing and Programme Committee Member, IEEE 12thInternational Conference on Intelligent Control, 1997;

·         Organizing Committee Member, 2ndInternational Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, 1994;

·         Organizing Committee Member, TOK'94 Automatic Control Symposium, 1994; TOK'97 Automatic Control Symposium, 1997.

·         Visiting Researcher, UMIST, Control Systems Centre, 1994.

·         Membership of the National Automatic Control Committee of Turkey 1996–.

·         Associate Professorship Qualification in System Optimization, December, 1995.

·         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers membership, 1993–1994.

·         Article Reviewer, IEE Proceedings and Automatica.

·         Short Course Instructor, Introduction to Assembly Programming with 80286 (Havelsan, Ankara, 1998), Codesign and Real-Time Operation of Embedded Systems (Vestel A.Ş., Manisa, 1998).

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Personal Data

Nationality: Turkish
Date of Birth: 25/06/1961
Languages: Turkish, English, German

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Publications

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