Research Interests
- I have extensive experience in deep learning, specializing in novel ensemble approaches for time series signal classification for wearable sensor-based human activity and user identity recognition tasks. My work includes a thesis and journal papers in this area. Additionally, I have contributed to deep learning projects in the domains of computer vision and natural language processing.
 
Education
- Ph.D. Student, Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2022 - Present)
 - M.Sc., Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2019 - 2022)
 - B.Sc., Koç University, Computer Engineering (2017 - 2020)
 - B.Sc., Koç University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2014 - 2019)
 - Tokat Science High School (2009 - 2013)
 
Research Activities
- Journal Publications
 - E. Koşar and B. Barshan, “A new cnn-lstm architecture for activity recognition employing wearable motion sensor data: Enabling diverse feature extraction,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 124, p. 106529, 2023.
 - B. Barshan and E. Koşar, “Bidirectional Transfer Learning Between Activity and User Identity Recognition Tasks with a 2D CNN-LSTM Model for Wearables,” (under review in IEEE Internet of Things Journal).
 
Academic Services
- Reviewed for Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier.
 
Awards and Achievements
- TUBITAK BIDEB Graduate Studies Fellowship, Ph.D. (2022 - Present)
 - 5G and Beyond Graduate Studies Fellowship (2020 - 2022)
 - TUBITAK BIDEB Graduate Studies Fellowship, M.Sc. (2019 - 2022)
 - ALES Exam - Ranked 49th among 119,000 students (2018)
 - University Entrance Exam - Ranked 250th among 2 million students (2013)
 - TUBITAK Math Project Competition - Bronze medal (2013)
 
Projects
- Context-aware object detection in aerial imagery with image inpainting
 - Human Activity recognition in videos using traditional computer vision methods
 - Face-mask detection by fine-tuning YOLOv5
 - Image captioning project with Python Keras using LSTM and pre-trained VGG16 networks
 - 2D CNN network to score facial attractiveness of people with Python TensorFlow
 - Human Activity Recognition from time series signals using CNN, LSTM, and CNN-LSTM with Keras
 - Implementation of CNN, LSTM, GRU, RNN, ANN from scratch with Python
 - N-gram Language Model and basic NLP Implementations with Python
 
Skills
- Languages: Professional proficiency in English, beginner in German
 - Coding: Python, MATLAB, Java, C, C++, Assembly
 - Libraries: Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, OpenCV