Mehmet Önder Efe

Mehmet Önder Efe is a Turkish control systems engineer and academic. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, where his research focuses on control systems, robotics, neural networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, and machine learning. He served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control from 2017 to 2022 and has held associate editor positions at several IEEE journals.

Early life and education

Efe completed his B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 1993. He went on to obtain his M.Sc. in Systems and Control Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the same institution in June 2000, under the supervision of Okyay Kaynak. His doctoral dissertation was recognised with the Ph.D. Thesis Award of the Boğaziçi University Research Fund.

From 2010 to 2011, he worked as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bahçeşehir University. In 2011, he was appointed professor at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, where from 2011 to 2013 he served as dean and vice rector in the Department of Flight Training of the Faculty of Air Transportation. More recent research, carried out with collaborators in Europe and East Asia, has addressed adaptive disturbance and uncertainty estimators for linear time-invariant systems, equivalent-input-disturbance methods for unmatched systems, and continual-learning approaches based on switched neural networks with preselected masks.

Awards

Efe is a three-time recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Copyrighted Work Award, given to outstanding academic textbooks in Turkish: 2011 / 2012 – for the two-volume Circuit Analysis I and Circuit Analysis II. 2014 – for Automatic Control Systems.

He also received the Ph.D. Thesis Award of the Boğaziçi University Research Fund for his doctoral work.

Selected books