Meet Our Team
Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. SAHIN ALBAYRAK
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. rer. oec. NURI KAYAOGLU
Executive Officer
Ph.D. FIKRET SIVRIKAYA
Research Director
Dr.-Ing. JAN KEISER
Senior Researcher
Multi-Agent Systems, Open Service Platforms, Future Mobility (Autonomous Driving, Intermodal Mobility, E-Mobility)
Dr.-Ing. TOBIAS KÜSTER
Senior Researcher
Agent-oriented Software Engineering,
Business Process Modelling,
Optimization Algorithms
MANUEL HENKE
Researcher
Connected, Platform Economy, Cooperative & Automated Mobility, Visualization of Autonomous System
SHIFA IMRAN
Researcher
Edge Computing, Container Orchestration, Machine Learning
NILS OLE BREUER
Researcher
Explainable AI, Causality, Fairness in AI, Robust ML
ABDULLAH KIWAN
Researcher
Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI
BIANCA SCHEIBEL
Researcher
Cybersecurity, Machine Learning
JAKOB STRAFER
Researcher
Computer Security, Network Monitoring, Intrusion Detection Systems, Software Design
KETAN SUNIL MOTLAG
Researcher
Autonomous Systems, Explainable Artificial Intelligence
PHILIPP GROSENICK
Researcher
SEBASTIAN PETERS
Researcher
Telecommunications, 5G and Beyond, Edge Computing, Vehicular Communications
FARIHA GHIASI
Researcher
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Transfer Learning, Attentional Mechanism
TOLGA AKAR
Researcher
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs)
THOMAS CARGANICO
Researcher
EVGENY GORELIK
Researcher
Machine Learning, Computer Vision
HASAN YILMAZ
Communications Manager
Press and Public Relations
YEKTA SECKIN SATIR
Technical Support
IoT Software Engineering
SEBASTIAN PREUSSE
UX/UI Designer
Human computer interaction
ONUR ALI ÜLKER
Technical Support
System Administrator
ÖZKAN BAK
Graphic Designer
Visual Communication Design
OMID KARIMNIA
Researcher
IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineer, DevOps, Linux
YUCHEN LIU
Researcher
ADAS, Robotics
ABDULLAH SARDOGAN
Researcher
Smart Spaces, AI in Health & Medicine, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Explainable AI
ANDRES GAVILAN
Project Assistant
Technical Support