Alp Sayin's Personal Web Page

Biography

I was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. During my master's I lived in Stockholm, Sweden for 2.5 years. Nowadays, I live in Birmingham UK. Below is a summary of my experience.

During my bachelor's final year, I worked on four separate senior projects, two from electronics engineering and two from industrial engineering departments. 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 graduating from bachelor's I did freelance application development with use of languages C/C++ and Java. Also worked on projects related to embedded sensory applications (embedded software and circuit/PCB design).

Finished a System-on-Chip Design MSc. programme and focused on embedded mixed hardware/software designs. 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).

After the master's 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. The company is currently inactive.

I have recently finished a full-time PhD with scholarship and worked with MIMO radars for automotive applications with MATLAB involving array optimisation and short-range sensing.

Currently, I'm working as a postdoctoral research-fellow at Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL) of University of Birmingham. My current subjects involve but not limited to synthetic aperture, passive bistatic, MTI and MIMO radars.

Research Interests

• 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 radar using Starlink transmissions: A theoretical study (submitted) (outside university server)
• Passive SAR Satellite System (PASSAT): First airborne trials (submitted) (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)