Education

• Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Konya Technical University
• M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Selçuk University
• B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Selçuk University

Work experience

• Lecturer (2009- Present)
  Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, Civil Engineering Department
  Middle East Technical University

• Electronics Engineer (2006-2008)
  ORSIS Electronics & Automation
  Projects - Designed and manufactured Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems for TMMT TOYOTA Assembly Department.
  - Developed control software for AGV systems, ensuring efficient and reliable operations.

Publications

• Transactions or Journal papers:

  • S. Azak, F. Bozkaya, Ş. Tığlıoğlu, A. Yusefi, A. Durdu, “A Unified Monocular Vision-Based Driving Model for Autonomous Vehicles with Multi-Task Capabilities”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 4397-4408, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIV.2024.3483114.
  • S. Azak, F. Bozkaya, A. Durdu, “RapidSense: A Diverse and Multi-modal Autonomous Driving Dataset”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (In Preparation).

• Conference Papers:

  • S. Azak, E. Erdoğan, “Performance evaluation of the grid-based FastSLAM in V-REP using MATLAB,” IEEE 2018 14th International Conference on Advanced Trends in Radioelecrtronics, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering (TCSET), Lviv-Slavske, 2018, pp. 276-281, doi: 10.1109/TCSET.2018.8336202
  • S. Azak, F. Bozkaya, A. Durdu, “Enhancing Generalization in Autonomous Driving: A Comparative Study of Data Augmentation Techniques”, 25. Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Konferansı (TOK 2024), pp. 874-879, 2024.

Talks

• Tutorial at TOK2024 Conference
  (Topic: Vision-Based Prediction of Control Commands in Autonomous Driving Systems)

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• Reviewer of the following journals and conferences
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Electronics Letters
  • ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)
  • IROS (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
  • ITSC (IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference
• Tutorial Presenter
  • TOK2024 Conference (Topic: Vision-Based Prediction of Control Commands in Autonomous Driving Systems)

Professional Memberships

• Member of IEEE
• Member of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
• Member of IEEE Computer Society
• Member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
• Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee (PAMI-TC).