Control and Intelligent Systems Lab
At BUCIS Lab, we study a broad range of topics in data science and artificial intelligence. We always welcome dedicated, hardworking, and passionate team members.
Research Opportunities
We are seeking undergraduate research students, master’s students, and PhD students to work on the subjects below.
If you are interested in any of them, please contact Ercan Atam at ercan.atam@bogazici.edu.tr
- A Taxonomy of Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Conflicts within Turkish Society: Optimal Mediation Strategies for the Husband
- Automatic Choreography Synthesis from Music via Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Harnessing Sun and Soil: Smart, Agriculture-Dominated Multi-Purpose Use of Photovoltaic Systems
- Reinforcement Learning–Assisted Optimization of Weight-Loss Management in Adults with Overweight or Obesity
- AI-Based Detection and Correction of Out-of-Tune Singing in Turkish Music
- Reinforcement Learning-Based Film Music Generation
- Automating Optimal Nonlinear Function Approximation via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Academics
- Ercan Atam Head of BUCIS Lab
- Şaziye Betül Özateş
- Erdinç Akyıldırım Business School, University of Nottingham
- Ahmet Çağın Part-time faculty member, Dept. of Management
PhD Students
- Seçil Köktürk Intelligent Financial Systems, co-advised with Şaziye Betül Özateş
- Zeynep Ellialtı Intelligent Financial Systems
MS Students
- Hritika Kowlessur, Intelligent Control Systems
- Zeynep Yıldız Intelligent Financial Systems
- Begüm Ceyda Karslı Scientometrics, co-advised with Şaziye Betül Özateş
- Tuğba Canbaz Sevinç AI Applications in Education, co-advised with Şaziye Betül Özateş
- Burak Berk Bulut AI Use for Black-Box Optimization
- Ayşenur Ercan Intelligent Recommendation Systems, co-advised with Tarkan Aydın (Bahçeşehir University)
- Mihrimah Göknar
Undergraduate Students
- Gökçe Duru Tekçam AI Applications in Social Sciences, from Sociology Department
- Zeynep Bereketbulur AI Applications in Social Sciences, from Psychology Department
Lab Alumni
- Elif Bayındır, MS
- Gizem Özçelik, MS
- Tugay Balatlı, MS
- Zeynep Karaman, MS
- Bahri Atakan Yıldız, MS
- Brusk Serhat Solgun, MS
Ongoing and Past Projects
- Reinforcement learning in optimization of passsive energy dissipation devices for seismic control of buildings
- M. C Kurucu, E. Atam, M. Guzelkaya, I. Eksin, "Intelligent computational methods for optimal distribution of friction dampers in seismic protection of buildings", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 3055-3066, 2024.
- M. C. Kurucu, E. Atam, M. Güzelkaya and I. Eksin, "Simultaneous Optimization of the Number and Distribution of Friction Dampers for Seismically Excited Buildings: An AI Approach" 2024 8th International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium (IDAP), Malatya, Türkiye, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IDAP64064.2024.10710716.
- A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach to optimization of friction damper systems for seismically excited buildings
(Boğaziçi University, BAP SUP, 01.05.2024-30. 05.2026). - AI-assisted advanced techniques for control for variable-mass UAVs
(TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, 01.10.2024-30.09.2025). - Optimization- and AI-based approaches to academic quality quantification for transparent academic recruitment.
- Multi-agent reinforcement learning/deep learning approaches for gain-scheduled PID control design.
- Agriculture-dominated multi-purpose use of photovoltaic systems.
