Volkan AYDINGÜL

◦ Development of audio-visual generative models (e.g., diffusion and GANs) and novel view synthesis models (e.g., NeRF and Gaussian Splatting) several flagship mobile applications such as FaceDance and Speak Learn English: Learna. ◦ Inference-time optimization of the developed models. ◦ Preparation of the backend to serve the developed models.

Autonomous Vision Group (AVG): Currently, I am working on end-to-end learning for autonomous driving. Specifically, my current research is model-based policy learning, in which I am aiming to design an autonomous agent that can determine optimal actions according to the future predictions of the world.

Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (RML): I worked on the generation/realization of the sense of touch in virtual environments such as touch screens, mobile phones, tablets, etc. My aim was to improve the existent texture rendering algorithm by making use of the learning models. On top of that, the computational modeling of the human perception of touch constituted an important part of my research study.

During my candidateship, I worked on several projects that require mathematical modeling of the existent/constructed physical systems in order to simulate them in a virtual environment.

This is an international satellite project which has participants from different countries to build several cube satellites. Every satellite is a member of the big cluster of satellites and has a specified mission. I work in the system analysis group which has the primary purpose of designing and actualizing the whole model of the satellite system. At the same time, we are conducting several types of research about the application of MBSE(Model-Based System Engineering) using tools like SysML.

In this internship, I work in the system analysis group. System analysis group deals with the design and the analysis of the whole system integrated with SysML modeling language.

In this internship, I have learned basic principles about mathematical modeling of an aerial vehicle and advanced principles about attitude determination in space from very experienced people in this field. Also, I have prepared a lot of codes and simulations regarding flight mechanics, navigation systems, and gravitational potential models at MATLAB ® programming language and Simulink ® .