Since the 1990s, each year Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department and the IEEE Bilkent Student Branch organize the Graduate Research Conference (GRC), where Bilkent EEE graduate and selected undergraduate students present their work in a festival of information-sharing. During this day-long event, Bilkent EEE graduate students describe their state-of-the-art research projects in interactive oral and poster presentations, and selected undergraduate students present their course project demos.
The 34th GRC occurred face-to-face on Thursday, 25 January 2024, in the EE Building. The event offered a day full of knowledge sharing and a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to experience the world of research in engineering and science conducted in the EEE Department at Bilkent University.
This year’s schedule included 38 oral presentations grouped into nine sessions, with three sessions occurring concurrently during each of the three-time blocks. In the oral presentations, the graduate and selected undergraduate students shared their novel research projects and answered questions from the audience. Various electrical and electronics engineering areas were covered, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, biomedical technologies, communications and networking, control and robotics, electromagnetics, electronics, integrated circuits and systems, nanotechnology, optics and photonics, and signal processing. More than 200 participants attended the conference, including Bilkent EEE graduate and undergraduate students.
During the two poster sessions, attendees had a chance to interact with the 25 presenters and learn more about the research in the Bilkent EE department. The conference also included some invited poster/demo presentations by EE undergraduate students.
Among the presentations, the event jury selected three oral presentations for the “Best Oral Presentation” award and one poster presentation for the “Best Poster Presentation” award.
Prof. Süleyman Serdar Kozat of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering chaired the conference. EE graduate students Ahmet Safa Öztürk, Issifu Iddrisu, and Ecem Şimşek along with the undergraduate students Zeynep Naz Bayındır (EE/II) and Baturalp Sönmez (CTIS/III) from the IEEE Bilkent Student Branch, took part in organizing the event.
The event offered a day full of knowledge sharing and a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to experience the world of research in engineering and science. Participants also had a chance to interact with researchers from other universities and professionals from some of the top engineering companies in Turkey.
More information about the GRC can be found at https://ieee.bilkent.edu.tr/grc2024/index.html
Below are the awarded talks presented at the conference:
Best Oral Presentation Awards:
- DreaMR: A Diffusion-Based Approach to Counterfactual Explanations in Functional MRI Analysis
Hasan Atakan Bedel, Tolga Çukur
- Use of Neural Network in Bipedal Robot Locomotion Control
Burak Çatalbaş, Bahadır Çatalbaş, Ömer Morgül
- Dynamically Phase Controlled On-Coil Class E Transmit Amplifiers for 3T MRI
Abdullah Erkam Arslan, Ergin Atalar
Best Poster Presentation Award:
- Medical Image Translation with Adversarial Diffusion Bridges
Bilal Kabaş, Fuat Arslan, Tolga Çukur