Personal Information

Atasev Doğukan Taşbaşı

e-mail: atasev.tasbasi@metu.edu.tr

phone: +90 (312) 210 2412

Education Information

• Balıkesir-Ayvalık Anatolian High School (2012 – 2013)

Average Grade at the end of First Year: 90.16/100

• Ankara-Süleyman Demirel Anatolian High School (2013 – 2016)

Average Grade at the end of Fourth Year  : 92.24/100

• Middle East Technical University (2016 – )

– Bachelor’s Degree (B.Sc.) (2016-2021):

(EPE) English Proficiency Exam Grade: 78.5/100 in 2017

CGPA: 3.74/4.00 (High Honor)

– Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) (2021- ):

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Nejan HUVAJ SARIHAN

Thesis Title: Analysis, Probabilistic Design and Optimization of Anchoring Alternatives for Floating Hybrid Wind and Solar Energy Systems

(EPE) English Proficiency Exam Grade: 73.5/100 in 2021

CGPA: 3.64/4.00 (Now, I am in my sixth semester)

Work Experience

• Renaissance Construction (REC International, June 2019 – July 2019)

Summer intern at the construction of Supreme Court in İncek/Ankara

• Promer Consultancy Engineering Inc. (July 2020 – August 2020)

Summer Intern: Technical Office (Steel Design)

• METU CE STAR (February 2020 – March 2021)

Undergraduate researcher about scaling ground motion records and its effects on the structural buildings

• TOKER Drilling and Construction Engineering Consulting Co. (April 2022 – April 2023)

Geotechnical Design Engineer

Projects:

TP-OTC – Filyos Natural Gas Stream:

• Settlement evaluation reports for individual structures
• Pile Load Test Reports (vertical & lateral)
• Geotechnical notes for soil improvement (soil replacement/CFA) under individual structures and pipe supports

MR Grup – Nüfus ve Vatandaşlık İşleri (NVİ) Archive Building Geotechnical Evaluation and Shoring Report and Application Project:

• Geotechnical Investigation Report
• Shoring Report
• Pile Integrity Report

• Research Project Assistant at Middle East Technical University (March 2023 – August 2023)

Floating Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Turkey (TUBİTAK Project No: 120N973):

• Work Package 2 (WP2): Analysis of seabed foundations / anchoring systems
• Work Package 3 (WP3): Probabilistic design and optimization of foundations / anchoring alternatives

• Scientific Project Specialist at Middle East Technical University (April 2023 – )

TEİAŞ Doğa Olaylarına Karşı Risk Projesi:

Civil geotechnical engineering, foundation design, slope stability, preparation of maps, project reports and academic publications

• Teaching Assistant at Tufts University (August 2023 – December 2023)

ES-8 Fluid Mechanics

Advisor: Prof. Robert Viesca

• Research & Teaching Assistant at Middle East Technical University

Geotechnical Engineering

Exam Records

1) ALES (Akademik Personel ve Lisansüstü Eğitimi Giriş Sınavı)

Grade: 92.33645/100 (599^th, out of 139 469 applicants 2022/3)

2) YDS (Yabancı Dil Sınavı):

Grade: 87.5/100 (B)

3) YÖKDİL (Yüksek Öğretim Kurumları Yabancı Dil Sınavı)

Grade: 92.5/100

4) IELTS Academic

Overall Grade: 6.5 (B2)

5) GRE (Graduate Record Examination)

Verbal Reasoning: 137/170

Quantitative Reasoning: 162/170

Skills

• Geotechnical engineering, offshore wind energy, academic research, project reading, report writing, presentation, literature review, collaborating, planning, time management, organizing and managing the construction site, teamwork, following health and safety rules.

• Softwares/Programs:
  • High Skills: Microsoft Office Programs, AutoCAD, MATLAB, MathCAD, Plaxis 2D, Plaxis 3D, Plaxis Monopile Designer, openFAST
  • Low Skills: Python, QGIS, sap2000, Mathematica, SLOPE/W

• Languages:

Turkish: Native

English: Professional

German: Beginner

Events/Seminars

• GDG – Offshore Wind Foundations
• Afet Araştırmaları Derneği – Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri
• DÜRED Offshore Wind Energy Training
• T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı AFAD Hafif Arama ve Kurtarma Eğitimi
• AGERP – Foundation Design
• DÜRED/UWEA – Marine Spatial Planning and Offshore Wind Development
• Institute of Geotechnics TU Darmstadt – Investigation of the Monopile Installation and Its Effect on the Lateral Response
• Energy Geotechnics – Geotechnics for Low Carbon Offshore Wind Energy Production
• NAWEA/WindTech – Offshore Wind Panel
• DNV – Floating PV Solar Structures
• Dokuz Eylül University SUMER – Açık Deniz Rüzgar Türbinleri
• IRENA – Accelerating Offshore Wind and Floating Solar PV in Small Island Developing States
• Zemin Mekaniği ve Geoteknik Mühendisliği’18 (September 28-30, 2022 Kayseri/Turkey)

Other Information/Interests

• Old professional chess player (Fourth Ranking in Ayvalık/Balıkesir in 2013)
• Table tennis, chess, hiking, cycling
• Driving License: Class M, B1, B, F

Reference(s)

Assoc. Prof. Nejan HUVAJ SARIHAN	+90 (312) 210 5489	nejan@metu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Nabi Kartal TOKER	–	toker@metu.edu.tr
Dr. Shaghayegh Karim Zadeh NAGHSHINEH	–	shaghkn@gmail.com