Can Isik's Research Activities
My research interests are concentrated around fuzzy logic, neural nets and their combination, as well as their various applications. My favorite applications are in medical instrumentation, indoor environmental control, system modeling and control, and robotics. If you are a current or potential doctoral student with similar interests, feel free to contact me. However, please understand that I can provide funding for students only after they have worked with me for a while, and after I receive research support for our joint research area.
My research is currently being supported by the CASE Center, Welch Allyn, the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy. Past supporters include Alcan Rolled Products, Niagara Mohawk, Carrier Co., Duke Power Co., GE Foundation. The dissertation topics of my current and former Ph.D. students are specific examples of my research activities.
Ph.D. Students:
- Seckin Ari, Optimization and Control of Indoor Environmental Systems.
- Onur Ozdemir (w Mohan & Varshney), Controls and Digital Communications.
- Sukru Colak, Neural networks for multi-dimensional signal processing and classification.
Ph.D. Graduates:
- Kamal Athar, "New methods in isolated word speech recognition."
- A. Mete Cakmakci, "A fuzzy modular approach to system modeling based on incentive games."
- Kemal Ciliz, "Artificial neural network based control of nonlinear systems with application to robotic manipulators."
- Mohammad Farrokhi, "Dynamic system modeling using partially recurrent neural networks."
- Jian Fei, "Adapting to Environmental Variations in a Rule-Based Mobile Robot Controller."
- Sanggil Kang, "Identification of neural network input types and input ranking via sensitivity analysis."
- Jiann-Horng Lin, "Neuro-fuzzy clustering using information theoretic approaches."
- Stephen Morphet, "Modeling neural networks via linguistically interpretable fuzzy inference systems."
- Murat Sazli, "Neural network applications to turbo decoding."
- Daniel Simon, "The Generation and Optimization of Trigonometric Joint Trajectories for Robotic Manipulators."
- Ozgur Yilmazel, "Using natural language features for text categorization." (co-advisor: Dr. Liddy)
- Farrukh Zia, "Unified implementation of fuzzy rule based control using self organizing maps."
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