Ugur Yayan

Local evangelist of Robotics, Ph.D., DIH-Director, Project Manager, Independent Evaluator

After graduation as a electrical & electronics engineer in 2009, he received his Master’s degree in telecommunication and signal processing program in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Eskisehir Osmangazi University (ESOGU) in 2012. He received his Ph. D. in Control and Command program in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from ESOGU in 2018. During his Master program, he developed a ultrasonic based indoor positioing system and during his Ph. D. program he developed a reliability based multi robot route planning algorithm for lifetime extension of robot team. After his Ph. D. he started to work on in H2020-ECSEL2019-RIA VALU3S project as and project manager. In VALU3S project, He is developing  tailored simulation based testing tools for improving V&V processes of automated systems.  He worked as Project Manager at Inovasyon Muhendislik Company between 2010 – 2021.  In 2021, he started working in the department of software engineering ESOGU. He is also director of IFARLAB-DIH and ESOGU Software Reliability Laboratory (ESOGU - SRLAB). Since 2010, He participated in 10 national and 5 international funded projects. In addition, He has 3 patents, 3 design registration, 3 utility model. In addition, there are 15 international articles, 16 international conference proceedings and 30 national conference proceedings. Also, he has 3 books about robotics.  

Areas of interest; reliability analysis, prognostic and health management, robotics, multi robot task / route planning, indoor positioning systems, digital twins, artificial intelligence, software testing, simulation based testing etc.