İsmail Uyanık
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Date/Time: Thursday, 06 November 2025, 16:30 pm
Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106)
Abstract:
The central nervous system (CNS) processes sensory information obtained through various sensory structures in the body. These include signals with a wide variety of spatiotemporal features, such as different speed and propagation patterns. In this stream of multimodal sensory information, CNS must decide how it should integrate these signals to construct a unique representation of the environment during multisensory behavioral control. Our research focuses on system identification of the dynamics of multisensory behavioral control in freely swimming fish using custom-tailored experimental setups. We adopt control-theoretic approaches to identify how the CNS (re)weights different sensory modalities under different sensory conditions. Our goal is to generate models that capture the dynamics of online, real-time sensory re-weighting mechanisms adopted by these fish.
Bio:
İsmail Uyanık is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye. He served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University from July 2017 to July 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in May 2017, where he developed model-based and data-driven system identification techniques for analyzing and controlling legged locomotion. He also holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the same department (2009, 2011). His current research focuses on discovering principles of sensorimotor control in animals by integrating methods from system identification theory, neuroscience, and robotics. He is a recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship.