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Ferat Sahin

Department Head

Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
feseee@rit.edu
5854752175
Office Location
GLE-3109
Office Mailing Address
Kate Gleason College Of Engineering Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering Department Rm # 3031

Ferat Sahin

Department Head

Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Education

BS, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey); MS, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Bio

Dr. Ferat Sahin received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  In September 2000, he joined Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is a Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Microelectronics Engineering department.  He is also the director of Multi Agent Bio-Robotics Laboratory and Century Mold Collaborative Robotics Laboratory at RIT.  His current research interests are Collaborative Robotics, Human Compliant Robotics Systems, Deep Learning Approaches for Grasping, Machine Learning for Biosignals, System of Systems Simulation and Modeling, Machine Learning, Biological Signal Processing, Fault Analysis and Systemic Health Evaluation, Decision Theory, Distributed Multi-agent Systems, and Structural Bayesian Network Learning. Dr. Sahin has over 140 conference and journal publications in these research fields.  In addition, he is also the co-author of two books: “Experimental and Practical Robotics” and “Intelligent Control Systems with an Introduction to System of Systems Engineering” by CRC Press and seven book chapters. Dr. Sahin has received grants from government agencies and industrial companies for his research work. He has also brought significant funding through company gifts and outreach programs such as RoboCamps. During his time at RIT, he has brought over $2 Million to support his research and programs. 

Dr. Sahin has been very actively serving in his scientific community through IEEE.  He has served as in several capacities such as technical organizer, reviewer, referee, associate editor and deputy editor 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 SMC Magazine and AutoSoftJournal.  He is a member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Robotics and Automation Society, and Computational Intelligence Society. Currently, he is a member of Board of Governors and VP Finance of IEEE SMC Society.  He has served as the Student Activities chair for the IEEE SMC Society in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He was the Secretary of the IEEE SMC Society from 2003 to 2006. Dr. Sahin received an “Outstanding Contribution Award” for his service as the SMC Society Secretary in 2007 and 2015. He also served as the Treasurer of the IEEE SMC Society in 2011, 2012, and 2013.  He is a member of the SMC Strategic Opportunities and Initiatives Committee and the SMC Technical Committee on System of Systems Engineering.  Locally, Dr. Sahin has served as Secretary (2003) and section Vice-chair (2004 and 2005) in the IEEE Rochester Section.  Dr. Sahin has been heavily involved with technical conference organization.  He has held many committee positions such as publication chair, finance chair, technical committee chair, and general chair of several IEEE sponsored international conferences.  He has been mainly involved with two conferences: IEEE SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2007) and IEEE Annual Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC).   Currently, he is the general chair for 2020 International Conference on System of Systems Engineering and program committee member for IEEE SMC 2020. For more about Dr. Sahin see his website.

feseee@rit.edu
5854752175
Personal Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
Robotics
Swarm Intelligence
MEMS Materials Modeling
MEMS-based Microrobots
Micro Actuators
Distributed Computing

Select Scholarship

Journal Paper
Sahin, Ferat and Girish Chandrashekar. "A Survey on Feature Selection Methods." Computers & Electrical Engineering 40. 1 (2014): 16-28. Print.
Sahin, Ugur, Selman Uguz, and Ferat Sahin. "Salt and Pepper Noise Filtering with Fuzzy-cellular Automata." Computers & Electrical Engineering 40. 1 (2014): 59-69. Print.
Sahin, Ferat and Eduardo Cabal-Yepez. "Introduction to Special Issue on Image and Video Processing." Computers & Electrical Engineering 40. 3 (2014): 755-756. Print.
Sahin, Ferat and Eduardo Cabal-Yepez. "Special Issue on Image and Video Processing." Computers & Electrical Engineering 40. 8 (2014): 1-2. Print.
Hibbard, Matthew J., Eric E. Peskin, and Ferat Sahin. "FPGA Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization for Bayesian Network Learning." Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier 39. 8 (2013): 2454-2468. Print.
Sahin, Ferat and Ryan Bowen. "Introduction to Special Issue on Image and Video Processing." Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier 33. 3 (2013): 715 - 716. Print.
Cinar, Eyup and Ferat Sahin. "New Classification Techniques for Electroencephalogram (EEG) Signals and A Real-time EEG Control of a Robot." Neural Computing and Applications 22. 1 (2013): 29 -39. Print.
Sahin, Ferat. "Special Issue on Image Processing." Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier 38. 5 (2012): 1162 - 1163. Print.
Cinar, Eyup and Ferat Sahin. "New Classification Techniques for Electroencephalogram (EEG) Signals and a Real-Time EEG Control of a Robot." Neural Computing and Applications 20. (2011): 1-11. Web.
Sahin, Ferat and Ziya Arnavut. "Special Issue on Image Processing." Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier 37. 5 (2011): 629-630. Print.
Published Conference Proceedings
Cinar, Eyup and Ferat Sahin. "New Approach for Nanoindentation Using Multiprobe AFM System." Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Nannotechnology (IEEE-NANO). Ed. IEEE. Toronto, Canada: IEEE, 2014. Print.
Phillips, Andrew and Ferat Sahin. "A Comparison of Chatter Attenuation Techniques Applied to a Twin Rotor Systems." Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference. Ed. IEEE. San Diego, California: IEEE, 2014. Print.
Bowen, Ryan, et al. "Embedded One-class Classification on RF Generator Using Mixture of Gaussians." Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference. Ed. IEEE. San Diego, California: IEEE, 2014. Print.
Phillips, Andrew and Ferat Sahin. "Optimal Control of a Twin Rotor MIMO System Using LQR with Integral Action." Proceedings of the World Automation Congress (WAC), 2014. Ed. IEEE. Waikoloa, Hawaii: IEEE, 2014. Print.
Kumar, Shitij and Ferat Sahin. "Brain Computer Interface for Interactive and Intelligent Image Search and Retrieval." Proceedings of the HONET-ICT 2013, High-Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies. Ed. Jasin Raja. Nicosia, Cyprus: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Sahin, Ugur and Ferat Sahin. "Hybridized Fuzzy Cellular Automata Thresholding Algorithm for Edge Detection Optimized by PSO." Proceedings of the HONET-ICT 2013, High-Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies. Ed. Jasin Raja. Nicosia, Cyprus: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Sorkunlu, Niyazi and Ferat Sahin. "Block Matching with Particle Swarm Optimization for Motion Estimation." Proceedings of the HONET-ICT 2013, High-Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies. Ed. Jasin Raja. Nicosia, Cyprus: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Sahin, Ugur and Ferat Sahin. "Uniform Cellular Automata Linear Rules for Edge Detection." Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference (SMC 2013). Ed. Hana Krautwurmova. Manchester, UK: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Chandrashekar, Girish and Ferat Sahin. "In-vivo Fault Analysis and Real-time Fault Prediction for RF Generators Using State-of-the-art Classifier." Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference (SMC 2013),. Ed. Hana Krautwurmova. Manchester, UK: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Bowen, Ryan and Ferat Sahin. "Net-centric System of Systems Framework for Human Detection." Proceedings of the International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2013). Ed. Aly El-Osery. Maui, Hawaii: IEEE, 2013. Print.
Sahin, Ugur and Ferat Sahin. "Pattern Recognition With Surface EMG Signal Based Wavelet Transformation." Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2012). Ed. Byoung-Kyong Min, Long Chen, and Jong-Hwan Lee. Seoul, South Korea: IEEE, 2012. Print.
Chandrashekar, Girish and Ferat Sahin. "In-Vivo Fault Prediction for RF Generators using Variable Elimination and State-of-the-art Classifiers." Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2012). Ed. Byoung-Kyong Min, Long Chen, Jong-Hwan Lee. Seoul, South Korea: IEEE, 2012. Print.
Erkilinc, Mustafa Sezer and Ferat Sahin. "Camera Control with EMG Signals using Principle Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines." Proceedings of the IEEE International Systems Conference 2011. Ed. Alain Beaulieu. Montreal, Canada: n.p., 2011. Print.
Dragunov, Yuri and Ferat Sahin. "Agent-in-the-Loop Simulation for Testing Swarm Robots using an XML-based System of System Framework in Discrete-Event Simulation Specification." Proceedings of the IEEE SoSE 2011 System of Systems Engineering. Ed. Aly El-Osery. Albuquerque: IEEE, 2011. Print.
Torres, Ticiano and Ferat Sahin. "A Study of Crossover Operators and Reference Set Sizes for Scatter Search in Unconstrained Function Optimization." Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011). Ed. Gary Anderson. Anchorage, AK: IEEE, 2011. Print.
Rao, T. M., et al. "Computing Optimal Snowplow Route Plans Using Genetic Algorithms." Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011). Ed. Gary Anderson. Anchorage, AK: IEEE, 2011. Print.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Sahin, Ferat. "A Novel Approach to Nanoindentation using Multiprobe AFM System." NanoPhotonics/MultiProbe Workshop. Nanonics Inc. Boston, MA. 22 Jul. 2014. Keynote Speech.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
7/1/2013 - 6/6/2014
     MKS ENI Inc.
     Amount: 29,907
7/1/2013 - 6/30/2014
     NYSTAR
     Amount: 60,611
6/1/2013 - 5/31/2014
     MKS ENI Inc.
     Amount: 48,674
7/1/2012 - 6/30/2013
     MKS ENI Inc.
     Amount: 29,903
7/1/2012 - 6/30/2013
     NYSTAR - CIES
     Amount: 64,631
4/15/2012 - 5/31/2013
     MKS ENI Inc.
     Amount: 38,631

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EEEE-784
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3 Credits
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Comprehensive Exam
0 Credits
EEEE-799
Independent Study
1 - 3 Credits
This course is used by students who plan to study a topic on an independent study basis. The student must obtain the permission of the appropriate faculty member before registering for the course.
ENGR-899
Independent Study
3 Credits
This course is used by students who plan to study a topic on an independent study basis. The student and instructor must prepare a plan of study and method of evaluation for approval by the program director prior to course registration.

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