Metin Sitti

Overview

Metin Sitti is currently the only Turkish fellow of the Max Planck Society in Germany, and has been working as Director for the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since Autumn 2014. Sitti’s research encompasses a wide variety of subjects in robotics and intelligent systems, including medical micro-robots, miniature moving robots and new materials inspired by nature, soft miniature robots, physical intelligence and micro/nano-robotics.

Having completed his undergraduate studies at the Boğaziçi University Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1992, Sitti received his Master’s degree from the same department in 1994. He completed his doctoral research at the Tokyo University Department of Electrical Engineering in Japan in 1999. Between 1999- 2002, Sitti worked as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States. Between 2002-2014, he continued his research as a professor at the Robotics Institute and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Between 2011-2012, he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, EPFL and Sorbonne University.

Research areas

Small-scale mobile robotics , Fiziksel zeka , Medical miniature robots and devices , Bio-inspired and bio-hybrid microrobots , Robotic micro/nanomaterials

Awards

Links

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