Academic profile.
An early-career researcher in sensor optimisation, IVHM, and diagnostics — translating research into deployable decision systems. Doctorate at Cranfield University's IVHM Centre. Open to academic positions, visiting research, journal review, and collaboration.
Sensor optimisation as a decision problem.
My research treats sensor selection on complex assets as a constrained, multi-objective decision problem rather than a procurement question. The doctoral programme produced two contributions — the Multi-Objective Sensor Optimisation Framework (MOSOF) and the Normalised Diagnostic Contribution Index (NDCI) — both peer-reviewed and validated across four aircraft subsystems (Engine, Fuel, EPS, ECS) through Cranfield's SESAC platform, with three first-author publications in Sensors (MDPI).
Going forward, the agenda extends in three directions: scoring frameworks for multi-modal sensor fusion, stakeholder-aware design where OEM, operator, and MRO weightings are made explicit, and decision frameworks that surface uncertainty honestly rather than collapsing it into a black-box label. The applied side of the same agenda runs through ventures (AcoustR, Sensorry) where the methods meet a real customer.
Methods, then applications.
I'm interested in teaching at the intersection of optimisation, diagnostics, and engineering decision-making — areas where students struggle not because the maths is hard, but because the framing is unfamiliar. My preferred approach is to introduce the formal method first (multi-objective search, Pareto fronts, information-theoretic scoring), then drive it home with a real, messy industrial case where the answer matters.
Supervision-wise, the strongest fit is for projects that sit between optimisation theory and an applied engineering problem — particularly anything in IVHM, sensor design, condition monitoring, or diagnostic decision systems. I'm happy to co-supervise where the academic home is elsewhere but the methodological overlap is strong.
Five years of operational reality.
Before academia, I founded and ran SSL Elektrik-Elektronik (Türkiye, 2017–2022), an applied R&D and industrial-automation business delivering high-voltage energy distribution and AI-driven control systems for state and private oil-and-gas operators. That five-year founder-engineer arc shapes the research: I'm uninterested in optimisation that's only optimal on paper, and the methods I work on are designed to produce answers that operations engineers can actually act on.
For prospective employers and collaborators, this is the practical implication: I read industrial constraints fluently, I'm comfortable in deployment-shaped conversations, and I expect academic work to be capable of crossing the bridge to industry without losing rigour on the way.
What I'm looking for.
An honest, status-labelled view rather than a generic "open to all opportunities". Reach out about the green ones first; the orange ones are case-by-case.
Postdoctoral & lectureship positions
UK and EU roles in optimisation, IVHM, diagnostics, sensor design, or applied AI for engineering systems. Particularly interested in groups bridging methods research and industrial application.
Visiting research & sabbaticals
Short visits (weeks to months) to groups working on related problems — sensor placement, anomaly detection, multi-objective design, decision systems under uncertainty. Strong preference for groups with an applied partner.
Journal & conference review
Reviewing for journals and venues in IVHM, sensors, diagnostics, and multi-objective optimisation. Active reviewer for Sensors and adjacent venues; happy to take on more.
Industrial collaboration
Joint research projects with industrial partners — particularly aerospace OEMs, MROs, and energy operators. The applied bridge is where the methods get tested most rigorously.
PhD supervision
Co-supervision of doctoral students whose project sits at the optimisation / diagnostics / IVHM intersection. Open to discussion where the academic home is elsewhere; primary supervision depends on institutional context.
Writing & commissions
Essays, research notes, op-eds, and plain-English explainers on multi-objective optimisation, sensor design, IVHM, and the research-to-product bridge. Editor commissions and co-author invitations welcome.
Same person, everywhere.
A canonical identity stack — only the profiles I actively maintain are linked. Items marked as placeholders are profiles where ownership or upkeep needs verifying before they're worth pointing recruiters at.
MOSOF with NDCI: A Cross-Subsystem Evaluation of an Aircraft for an Airline Case Scenario
NDCI Integration to Multi-Objective Sensor Optimisation Framework — An ECS Case
Understanding the Role of Sensor Optimisation in Complex Systems
Full publications archive
Discuss a position or collaboration.
For academic recruitment, hosting a visit, opening a journal-review request, or proposing a collaboration: a few sentences on the institution, the role or project, and the timing is enough for a first reply.
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