Who am I?
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. For more information, you might want to check out my resume.
During the period July 2011 - January 2012, I was a visiting scholar in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, working under the supervision of Prof. Manuela Veloso as a member of the CORAL research group.
I got my MSCS degree from the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, and my BS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering at Marmara University, Turkey.
Awards, honors, and scholarships
- Programme 2214 Scholarship of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
- Best reviewer award in Computer Science Student Workshop 2010 (CSW'10).
- Best research paper award in Computer Science Student Workshop 2010 (CSW'10).
- Ph.D. Scholarship of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
- Completed undergraduate study with the second highest GPA and holding a high-honors degree.
- First place in RoboCup'05 4-Legged League Technical Challenges as a member of team Cerberus.
Involvements
- Organizing Committee member of the AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium: Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (RLIHT).
- Co-chair of the RoboCup 2011 event, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Co-founder and member of the Turkish National RoboCup Committee.
- Local chair of the Organizing Committee member of the Standard Platform League of RoboCup 2011.
- Technical Committee member of the Standard Platform League of RoboCup since 2009.
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Program Committee member / (sub)reviewer in
- ICRA
- IROS
- AAMAS
- RoboCup
- CASE
- SIMPAR
- ICAART
- CLAWAR
- ICAART
- IROS-HBU
- CSW
- IJACSP
- Soft Computing
- IEEE TPDS
- Member of the Team Cappadocia, the winner of the 4th place in the MAGIC 2010 competition.
- Computer programming instructor of the FESTO & Boğaziçi University Mechatronics Specialist Certification Program.
- Member of Cerberus, the RoboCup Standard Platform League Team of Boğaziçi University and the winner of the technical challenges in RoboCup'05. I was the captain of the team from 2007 to 2010.
- Member of the SPL Organizing Committee of the RoboCup Mediterranean Open event since 2010.
- Publication co-chair of the Computer Science Student Workshop (CSW) since 2011.
- Workshop co-chair of the 1st Computer Science Student Workshop 2010 (CSW'10).
- Teaching Assistant of the CmpE 49A - Introduction to Robotics course, taught by Prof. Levent Akın, in Fall 2009-Fall 2011.
- Referee and judge of the FIRST LEGO League Turkey Tournaments in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
- Local Organizing Committee member of CLAWAR 2009.
- Member of LARG (Learning Agents Research Group) led by Dr. Peter Stone between 2005 and 2007.
- Member of Austin Robot Technology & UT Austin DARPA Urban Challenge Team in 2007.
- Member of the robot soccer lab and the UT Austin Villa RoboCup 4-Legged League team when I was pursuing my masters at UTCS between 2005 and 2007.
- Teaching Assistant of the CS378 - Autonomous Vehicles: Driving in Traffic class taught by Dr. Peter Stone during Spring 2007.
- Teaching Assistant of the CS307 - Foundations of Computer Science class taught by Mike Scott at UTCS during Fall 2006.
- Research Assistant of Dr. Peter Stone during Spring 2006.
Invited talks
- 11/05/2011 - "AI and Robotics" - Uşak University, Uşak, Turkey
- 01/12/2009 - "AI and Robotics" - Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 04/04/2009 - "Embedded Systems on Linux" - Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 05/02/2009 - "Robotics Applications of AI" - Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey.
- 26/03/2008 - "Intelligent Machines" - Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Society memberships
Miscellaneous
- Here is the link for the homepage of my elder brother Çetin Meriçli.
- 09.09.1990 - Two of the most important computer scientists and roboticists, Meriçli Brothers, in front of their Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer..
- 09.09.2010 - My brother and me in front of our Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer again 20 years later.