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Baran Çürüklü has received his PhD from Mälardalen University (MDH) in April 2005. His thesis supervisor was Prof. Anders Lansner, Lansner Lab - Computational neuroscience and Neurocomputing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Doctoral thesis title: A Cannonical Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. After working at MDH until October 2005, as a researcher, he joined the Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab, headed by Prof. Aytül Erçil, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, as a postdoc. The researched conducted at the VPALAB was on driver fatigue. In April 2007 he joined the Ivanka Savic Berglund Group, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm Brain Institute) for a second postdoc. He returned to MDH in August 2007 as a Senior Lecturer and is also Director of Studies since 2008. His main research interest is information processing in neocortex (computational neuroscience). The reasearch conducted under this theme has its focus on population dynamics and different coding mechanisms used by neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1, Broadmann's area 17). He is also interested in now models developed for explaining mammalian cortex behaves in artifacts, especially robots. Interaction between humans and their non-organic counterparts, robots that is, is also in the focal point of his research.

Research interests in keywords: Computational neuroscience; Information processing in the cortex; Vision; Visual cortex; Hypercolumns; Human-Robot Interaction; Robotics;

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Research projects

On-going:
• Music in Motion - A Project that combines Arts with Science
• Robot Colleague - A Project in Collaborative Robotics


Finished:
• A Canonical Model of the Primary Visual Cortex
• Development of Electroencephalography (EEG) Signal Analysis Techniques for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Systems
• Intelligent Human Robot Interaction

• Cognitive Robotics
• Computer Models of Animal Behavior
• Environment Mapping with a 3D Stereo Camera using Industrial Robots
• Human and scenario detection in industrial settings
• Models of Biological Neural Networks
• Models of human brain
• Music in Motion - A Project that combines Arts with Science
• Music in Motion - Smart Soundscapes
• Optimization of an Industrial Robot's Actions