Dear prospective graduate (MS and Ph.D.) students,

I am an assistant professor in the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department and one of the core faculty members of the newly opened Robotics Graduate Program.

Interested applicants who want to pursue an MS or Ph.D. degree with me can apply to the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department (Control or Robotics options) or the Interdisciplinary Robotics Graduate Program. In addition to the individual requirements of each program, I also have some additional personal acceptance and graduation requirements.

The prospective students who believe that she/he can satisfy these requirements can send me an e-mail about the application processes and possible opportunities under my supervision.

Acceptance Requirement:

I no longer accept an applicant who is a “full-time” employee in a company. I want a nearly full-time commitment to graduate research and will consider an applicant if he/she can spend at least 2.5 weekdays a week (within working hours) for her/his graduate studies inside the METU campus. 

If you are working in a company and they allow such a commitment (possibly via a protocol with the student that guarantees this permission until graduation), you can contact me about possible opportunities. 

Graduation Requirement: 

Prospective and current graduate students, please carefully read my publication requirements for successful degree completion.

Publication requirements for the MSc & Ph.D. degrees:

In addition to the degree requirements imposed by the department, institute, and university, the students under my supervision must also satisfy the following publication requirements.

MSc students should have at least one journal article satisfying the following:

1. The student should be the first author.
2. The article should have METU in the affiliation and I need to be a co-author in the publication
3. The journal has to be indexed in the Web of Science database at the time of publication
4. The WOS quartile ranking of the journal needs to be at least Q2
5. The article should have been either accepted or received “minor revision” (this should be clearly demonstrated by a letter from the editor).

Ph.D. students should have at least two journal articles satisfying the following:

1. The student should be the first author in both articles.
2. The article should have METU in the affiliation and I need to be a co-author in the publication
3. The journal has to be indexed in the Web of Science database at the time of publication
4. The WOS quartile ranking of one of the journals needs to be at least Q1
5. The WOS quartile ranking of both journals needs to be at least Q2
6. One of the articles has to be published” before the date of thesis defense
7. If not yet published, the second article should have been either accepted or received “minor revision” (this should be demonstrated by a letter from the editor).

I have the right to ease/change/harden these requirements for specific cases. However, you are supposed to be prepared based on the listed requirements before your thesis defense.