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- Evren Samur Joins Bilkent University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Professor!
Evren Samur Joins Bilkent University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Professor!
Evren Samur received his bachelor's degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2003, his master's degree from Koç University in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Robotics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2010. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by the EuroHaptics Society in 2010. Dr. Samur worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University in 2011 and as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Boston University in 2021. His research primarily focuses on soft robotics and medical robotics, while also encompassing broader fields such as industrial robotics, marine robotics, and haptics. Dr. Samur has served as the principal investigator of several projects funded by TÜBÝTAK and the European Union, including the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. He currently coordinates the SHEREC project, funded under the Horizon Europe Programme. Dr. Samur is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of IFToMM. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) and ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).