About Me
Currently I am pursuing my Msc. Degree in Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey. I am working under the supervision of Professor Emre Ugur. I am mostly interested in Developmental Robotics, in particular Intrinsic Motivation.
Academic Experience
Research assistant under the supervision of Professor Emre Ugur. My research aim is to understand and model the development of manipulation actions such as grasping, pushing, etc. in the early infancy. I would like to answer the following questions for this purpose.
- Why does an infant perform manipulation actions?
- What are the underlying mechanisms for the action selection in the exploration phase?
- How do we model the action understanding and execution of infants ? And how to transfer the knowledge gained?
Research internship under the supervision of Professor Yukie Nagai. I have participated in the internship program 3 times in total. Had the opportunity to work in a collaborative, international research laboratory.
- June 2017 - September 2017
- August 2018 - October 2018
- January 2019 - March 2019
Work Experience
Providing an end-to-end process in the financial services industry via the Internet. Money remitting and payment services business.
- Maintaining already implemented microservices using Java 8, Redis, MySql, Spring Boot and Cloud. Implementing new microservices according to business requirements.
- Writing unit, integration and automation tests and code reviewing.
- Configuring microservices as docker instances and running those from AWS. Managin build and deployment plans.
GkPay is a company specialising in emerging payments. Products of GkPay includes money transfer, prepaid cards, multi currency accounts and gateway/checkout services.
- Creating microservices using Java 8, Redis, MySql, Spring Boot and Cloud.
- Writing unit, integration and automation tests and code reviewing.
- Making Jenkins build plans for services and automation tests, pipelining those plans.
I have worked as a Backend Software Engineer in Garanti Teknoloji for more than a year. My role is to implement robust, scalable and secure backend APIs for different modules.
- Perform the designing, coding and testing the software.
- Coding both the back-end and front-end of an application and considering the cross browser compliant code.
- Ability to work individual as well as in a team.
Publications
- Serkan Bugur, Yukie Nagai, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur, "Organization of sensorimotor experience of a manipulation robot through predictability", Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2019
- Serkan Bugur, Yukie Nagai, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur, "A Computational Model For Action Prediction Development", ICDL-EpiRob 2018, Workshop on Continual Unsupervised Learning
- Deniz Ekiz, Gamze Ege Kaya, Serkan Bugur, Sıla Güler, Buse Buz, Bilgin Kosucu and Bert Arnrich, "Sign Sentence Recognition with Smart Watches", ISBN.978-1-5090-6004- 6/17/ 2017 IEEE.