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FERAT
SAHIN received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications
Engineering from Istanbul Technical University,
Turkey, in 1992 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1997 and 2000,
respectively. In
September 2000, he joined Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is an
Associate Professor. He is also the director of Multi Agent
Bio-Robotics Laboratory at RIT.
In 2006, he was with University
of Texas San Antonio
for his sabbatical as Visiting Research Associate Professor. His current research interests are
System of Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Robotics, MEMS Materials Modeling,
MEMS-based Microrobots, Micro Actuators, Distributed Computing, Decision Theory,
Pattern Recognition, Distributed Multi-agent Systems, and Structural
Bayesian Network Learning. He has
over 70 conferences and journals in these areas. He is also the co-author of a book
called “Experimental and Practical Robotics”. He has been a
reviewer for leading journals and conferences in both the IEEE and other
organizations. He serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for International
Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering and as an Associate Editor
for IEEE Systems Journal and AutoSoft Journal.
He
has been an active IEEE member since 1996. He is a member of the IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Robotics and Automation Society, and
Computational Intelligence Society. Locally, he has served as Secretary
(2003) and section Vice-chair (2004 and 2005) in the IEEE Rochester
Section. He has also been the
Faculty Advisor of IEEE student chapter at Rochester Institute of
Technology from 2001 to 2003. He has been active in IEEE Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics Society since 2000. He has served as the Student Activities
chair for the IEEE SMC society in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He has been the
Secretary of the IEEE SMC society since 2003. He has received an
“Outstanding Contribution Award” for his service as the SMC
Society Secretary. He was also a
member of the SMC Strategic Opportunities and Initiatives Committee
and the SMC Technical Committee on
Robotics and Intelligent Sensing.
He was the Publication Co-Chair for the IEEE SMC International
Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2007). He will serve as the Technical
co-chair of the IEEE SMC International Conference on System of Systems
Engineering (SOSE 2008).
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