Title: Assistant Prof. Dr.Department: Industrial Engineering DepartmentPosition: Part-Time InstructorEmail: uyildiran@yeditepe.edu.trTelephone: 216-5780000Office: Müh. A-505Time: Part TimeAkademikResumeBiography Ph.D.: Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Enginnering M.Sc.: Bogazici University, Systems and Control Engineering B.Sc.: Istanbul Technical University, Control and Computer Engineering Courses ISE 232 Computational Methods for Industrial and Systems Engineers ISE 311 Information Technologies ISE 352 Linear Systems and Control ISE 425 Introduction to Nonlinear Programming ES 224 Signals and Systems ESYE 552 Modern Control Engineering Research Interest Optimization Theory Control Theory Stochastic Programming Dynamic Programming Energy Systems M.Sc. Theses Directed Görkem Vardar, "Locationing and Sizing of Energy Storage Devices in Power Networks", ongoing. Ph.D. Theses Directed İsmail Kayahan, Optimal bidding and real-time operation strategies for wind and pumped hydro storage systems using stochastic programming and model predictive control, 2019. PublicationsJournal Papers U. Yıldıran, İ. Kayahan, “Risk-averse stochastic model predictive control-based real-time operation method for a wind energy generation system supported by a pumped hydro storage unit”, Applied Energy vol. 226, pp. 631-643. 2018 U. Yıldıran, İ. Kayahan, M. Tunç, S. Şişbot, “MILP based short-term centralized and decentralized scheduling of a hydro-chain on Kelkit River”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems vol. 69, pp. 1-8, 2015. Sedat Sisbot, Ugur Yildiran and Murat Tunc, “Optimal Distribution of the Electrical Energy Sources in Turkey with the Impact of Kyoto Protocol”, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy,Vol. 10, pp. 288-297, 2015. U. Yildiran and I.E. Köse, “LMI Representations of the Convex Hulls of Quadratic Basic Semialgebraic Sets,” Journal of Convex Analysis, vol. 17, pp. 535-551, 2010. U. Yildiran, “Convex hull of two quadratic constraints is an LMI set” IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, vol. 26, pp. 417-450, 2009. Conference publications U. Yıldıran, “Nonnegative Wind Speed Time Series Models for SDDP and Stochastic Programming Applications”, 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe 2019), Bucharest, Romania, September 2019-October 2, 2019 Kayahan, İ., and Yıldıran, U., “Stochastic Model Predictive Control-based Real-time Operation of a Transmission Constrained Joint Wind-PHS System”. 6th International Conference on Control Engineering & Information Technology, CEIT 2018. Erdaş, A., Arslan E., Öztürkcan B. and Yıldıran, U., “A Study on Object Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Comparison with Shallow Networks”. 6th International Conference on Control Engineering & Information Technology, CEIT 2018. U. Yildiran and O. Kaynak, “An application of SMC theory for experimental learning control of robotic manipulators,” Proceedings of 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27-31, 2003. U. Yildiran and O. Kaynak, “Neural Network Based Control of a Cement Mill by means of a VSS Based Training Algorithm,” Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2002), L’Aquila, Italy,July 8-11, 2002. U. Yildiran and O. Kaynak, “VSS Learning Based Intelligent Control of a Bioreactor System” in Advances in Soft Computing – AFFS 2002, N. R. Pal and M. Sugeno (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No: LNAI 2275, Springer, pp. 281-287, 2002. Conference publications (national) Kayahan, İ., Yıldıran, U., Şişbot, S., ‘Kelkit Nehri Üzerindeki Çoklu Baraj Sisteminde Günlük Enerji Çizelgelemesi ve Merkezi Havza Yönetiminin Merkezi Olmayan İle Karşılaştırılması’, Yöneylem Araştırması ve Endüstri Mühendisliği (YAEM) 35. Ulusal Kongresi, 9-11 Eylül 2015. Other publications U. Yildiran (Ed.), “Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Technology in Mechatronics (ITM’01)”,Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2001.