Metin Sitti - Curriculum Vitae#

Employment (chronological)

• Assistant, Associate and then Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 - 2014
  
• Professor Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart) 2014 - present
  
• Professor Koç University (part-time) 2018 - 2023
  
• Professor ETH Zurich 2020 - present
  
• President Koç University 2023 - present

Honours

• Fellow US National Academy of Engineering 2024
  
• Advanced ERC Grant 2019
  
• Rahmi Koç Medal of Science, Turkey 2018
  
• Fellow Turkish Science Academy 2018
  
• Fellow IEEE 2014

Other Awards

• Parlar Foundation Scientific Encouragement Award (Ankara, Turkey) 2024
  
• Best Paper Award at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (2019)
  
• IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award (2014)
  
• SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011)
  
• Best Paper Award in the IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference (1998, 2009)
  
• NSF CAREER Award (2005)

PhD and Post-Docs

Prof Metin Sitti has graduated some 70 PhDs and supervised over 70 post-docs at Carnegie-Mellon University, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, and Koç University.

Education

• BSc (1992) and MSc (1994) degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1999
  
• Research scientist (post-doc) at UC Berkeley from 1999 to 2002