Alp Sayin's Personal Web Page

Biography

TL;DR: I like technology, system-design, communications, and programming, and I'm good at it. I have a skill set that's best described "jack of all trades, master of none". Because I learn fast and only the necessary parts.

During my BSc, I actually delievered 4 separate senior projects, 2 from electronics engineering and 2 from industrial engineering. The first project was my own senior project.

• -Computer-vision based automotive side-mirror adjustment system (software design & implementation),
• -VHDL transceiver design for underwater communications (hardware coding),
• -City refuse collection system optimization (algorithm development & implementation),
• -Automotive spare-parts distribution schedule optimization (algorithm development & implementation).

After that I did freelance application development with C/C++ and Java. Also worked on projects related to embedded sensory applications (embedded software and circuit/PCB design).

Did an MSc. and focused on embedded software. I've done my thesis project on creating an infrastructure to carry data for low-cost, low-power, long-range communications with amateur radio bands (optimized IP stack implementation that uses off-the-shelf amateur band modules and PCB design).

I have co-founded a tech company with government funds that works on swarm AI technologies for unmanned vehicles. We also dealt with web/mobile application projects as side-projects for income.

I also now have a PhD (which I got full scholarship and stipend for) and worked with MIMO radars for automotive radar applications involving array optimisation and short-range sensing. I then worked as a postdoc research-fellow at MISL of University of Birmingham. My main subjects were spaceborne, synthetic aperture, passive, MTI and MIMO radars (and their combinations).

I've now taken a position at Novit.AI where I implement WSNs, and doing radar and image post-processing and using AI to fuse data to deliver insights to businesses.

Research Interests

• Optical & Radar Image Processing with AI
• Data Fusion of WSNs and Spaceborne Multi-Spectral Imagery
• Spaceborne Radars with Illuminators of Opportunity
• Passive Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar
• MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) Radars
• Automotive Radar Applications
• Phased Array Radars
• Heuristics & Optimisation Algorithms
• FPGA Embedded Systems & SoC Architectures
• Parallel Processing and Programming Techniques
• Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks
• Group Unmanned Vehicle Intelligence (Swarm AI)

Publications

• Passive SAR satellite constellation for near-persistent earth observation: Prospects and issues (outside university server)
• Passive radar using Starlink transmissions: A theoretical study (outside university server)
• Passive SAR Satellite System (PASSAT): First airborne trials (outside university server)
• PASSAT: Passive Bi-Static Radar Imaging Constellation – Airborne Trials and In-Orbit Demonstrator Design (outside university server)
• Passive SAR Satellite System (PASSAT): airborne demonstrator and first results (outside university server)
• Passive SAR Satellite System (PASSAT): Ground Trials (outside university server)
• MIMO Array for Short-Range, High-Resolution Automotive Sensing (outside university server)
• MIMO Radar Concept with a Towed Antenna Array (outside university server)
• PhD. Thesis - MIMO sensor array for short-range high-resolution automative sensing (Embargoed until 31/07/2020) (outside university server)
• MSc. Thesis - VHF/UHF Uplink Solutions for Remote Wireless Sensor Networks (outside university server)

Other

• Curriculum Vitae (Industry) (download from Google Drive, outside university server)
• Curriculum Vitae (Academia) (download from Google Drive, outside university server)
• Github (outside university server)
• BitBucket (outside university server)
• LinkedIn (outside university server)

GPG Keys

• Download my GPG public key from my facebook profile (download from Google Drive, outside university server)