Olgaç ERGENEMAN

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems                                            Tel:  +41 (44) 632 4774 (office)

ETH Zürich                                                                                                                     

Tannenstrasse 3 CLA H13                                                                                 Fax: +41 (44) 632 1078

CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland                                                                         E-Mail: oergeneman@ethz.ch

Date of Birth: 20.01.1981

Place of Birth: Ankara, Turkey

Nationality: Turkish

PhD Candidate

11/2005 –    ???             Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems,                            ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

n     Currently working on fluorescence sensors and magnetic MEMS

n     Thesis Advisor:  Prof. Bradley Nelson

Master of Science

09/2003 – 06/2005      Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering                       Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey

(Language of instruction is English)

n     Thesis: Design and Fabrication of Polymer Magnetic Actuators for Scanning

n     Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Hakan Ürey

n     CGPA: 3.74/4.00, High Honour

Bachelor of Science

09/1999 – 06/2003          Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering       Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

(Language of instruction is English)

n     Option: Telecommunications

n     Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Gözde Bozdağı

n     CGPA: 3.05/4.00, Honour

High School

09/1991 – 06/1999          TED Ankara College, Ankara, Turkey                                                                          

(Language of instruction is English)

n     Emphasis: Science, Mathematics

§    Design and development of a polymer electromagnetic actuator for barcode reader applications. Cantilever and torsional scanner based actuators have been designed and developed as Master of Science research project. This project is funded by KUMPEM (Koc University – Migros Education Centre) and TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific and Research Council).

§    Design of a biaxial electromagnetic scanner for retinal scanning applications. Magnetic actuator is realized by permalloy electroplating on silicon biaxial scanner. This project is funded by Microvision Inc., USA.

§    Development of a magnetic characterization setup: BH Looper. In order to get BH loops (hysteresis curves) of magnetic materials a setup was built with the needed electronic circuitry.

§    Interferogram analysis software. Optical interferometric techniques have been implemented for measuring a wide range of physical parameters of micro structures such as displacement, strain, vibration, surface profile and refractive index. A program was written to get the out of plane position information by analyzing the 2-D fringe patterns. The program code was submitted as the Computer Vision course term project.

§    Beam Propagation Software. A program was written to model physical beam propagation using MATLAB as an Optical Information Processing course   project.

§    Design of anti-reflection coatings. Up to three layers of coatings were designed with the given materials to obtain the minimum reflectivity. The coating models were implemented with Mathematica as the Photonics course term project.

§    Traffic Control System. As the senior year project, a traffic control system was designed. The cars were supposed to find their route by following a line and they were supposed to get directions with RF transmission. The directions were given autonomously by a computer that calculates the shortest path to the destination.

10/2003 – 10/2005     Research Assistant

Optical Microsystems Laboratory             

                                        Koç University, İstanbul, TURKEY

10/2003 – 08/2005    Teaching Assistant

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                        Koç University, İstanbul, TURKEY

§     ELEC 202 Circuit Analysis (two semesters),   

     ELEC 311 Optics (two semesters).

§     Grading of assignments, responsible from laboratory experiments, problem solving sessions.

06/2002 – 09/2002     Summer Internship

SOLIDYNE Corp. , Illinois, USA

§     Designed a sensor circuitry, drew its PCB layout, implemented and tested it.

§     Tested other systems.

§     Programmed ATMEL microcontrollers.

06/2001 – 07/2001     Summer Internship

BASARI TELEKOM, Ankara, Turkey

§     In the Mobile Data Communication Systems Department.

§     Worked on a GPS system.

§    Programming Languages                     C, C++

§    Operating Systems                                 Windows, DOS

§    Documentation                                         MS Office

§    Mathematical Modelling                       MATLAB, Mathcad, Mathematica

   and Numeric Computation

§    PCB Design Software                              Ultiboard, Eagle

§    Circuit Simulator                                    Cadence, PSpice, Electronics Workbench

§    FPGA Design Tool                                    Xilinx

§    Testing Tool                                              MATLAB,  HP VEE, Labview

§    Finite Element Modelling                      FEMLAB

§    Optical Design Program                       ZEMAX

§    Layout Editor                                           Cadence Virtuoso, L-Edit

§   J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, M. P. Kummer, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Magnetic Torque and Force for Controlled Manipulation of Soft-Magnetic Bodies," IEEE Trans. Robotics, In Press.

§   O. Ergeneman, D. Dogangil, J. J. Abbott, M. Kummer, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, and B. J. Nelson, "A Magnetically Controlled Wireless Optical Oxygen Sensor for Intraocular Measurements," IEEE Sensors Journal, In Press.

§   S. Isikman, O. Ergeneman, A. D. Yalcinkaya, H. Urey, “Modeling and Characterization of Soft Magnetic Film Actuated 2-D Scanners,” IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 13 (2007), pages 283-289.

§   A. D. Yalcinkaya, O. Ergeneman, H. Urey, “"Polymer Magnetic Scanners for Bar Code  Applications", Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 135 (2007),  pages 236-243.

§    Z. Nagy, O. Ergeneman, J. J. Abbott, M. Hutter, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Assembled-MEMS Microrobots for Wireless Magnetic Control," IEEE ICRA 2008, (Accepted).

§    J. J. Abbott, M. Kummer, O. Ergeneman, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "A Continuous Model for Magnetic Torque and Force on Soft-Magnetic Bodies,"  IEEE/ASME Int'l. Conf. Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2007.

§    O. Ergeneman, D. Dogangil, J. J. Abbott, M. Kummer, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, and B. J. Nelson, "A Magnetically Controlled Wireless Intraocular Oxygen Sensor," IEEE Eng. Medicine and Biology Conf. (EMBC 2007), pp. 4189-4193, 2007.

§    J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, M. Kummer, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "A Continuous Model for Magnetization Torque on Axially Symmetric Bodies," Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM)/Intermag Conf., January 2007.

§    (Invited) H. Urey, A. D. Yalcinkaya, S. O. Isikman, O. Ergeneman, S. Holmstrom, “Electromagnetic Actuators for Scanners", 20^th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, XX Eurosensors 2006, Götebog, Sweden.

§    O. Ergeneman, A. D. Yalçınkaya, M. Altun, R. Tursen, H. Urey, “Polymer Based Electromagnetic Scanners for Barcode Applications", Proceedings of the 16^th Micromechanics Europe (MME) Workshop, Göteborg, Sweden, pp.370-373, 2005.

§    O. Ergeneman, A. D. Yalçınkaya, H. Urey, “Barkod Okuyucu Uygulamaları İçin Manyetik Polimer Tarayıcı Ayna”, (“Magnetic Polymer Scanner for Barcode Reader Applications”, in Turkish), 6. Ulusal Elektro-Optik Çalışma Toplantısı, Sabancı University, İstanbul, 2004.

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