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Kaan Akşit

Academic History

M.Sc., RWTH Aachen University,2010

B.S., Istanbul Technical University,2007

Biography

Kaan Akşit received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University(ITU), Turkey, in 2007. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2010. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Koç University, Turkey.Mr. Akşit was a key member of ITU solar car team. During 2006 and 2007, the team won several trophies including best design and first place at TÜBİTAK's solar car races.

In 2009, under Dr. Cennini's guidance, he joined visual experiences group at the research center of Philips, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where his research interests include linear actuators, smell-o-vision devices, medical optics instrumentation and optical sensing and sensors.

In summer of 2010, He joined Optics and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) group under Dr. Urey’s guidance at Koç University, where he works at high efficiency laser based multi user multi modal 3D display (HELIUM3D) project of European commission seventh framework programme (EC-FP7).

Selected Publications

Giovanni Cennini, Jeremie Arguel, Kaan Akşit, and Arno van Leest, "Heart rate monitoring viaremote photoplethysmography with motion artifacts reduction", Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 5,pp. 4867-4875 (2010)