Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Department of Computer and Data Sciences
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Email: mcc14@case.edu
Phone: +1 (216) 368-4479
Fax: +1 (216) 368-6888
Office: Glenan 517C

Phone: +1 (216) 368-4479

Phone: +90 (312) 426-4432
               +90 (312) 428-5824

DEGREES

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-2000
• M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1997
• B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1991-1995

Robotics: Medical Robotics, Haptics, Teleoperation, Design of Mechatronic Systems Human-Machine Interfaces / Virtual Environments: Surgical Simulation, Haptic Interfacing to Virtual Environments, Physical Modeling for Simulation in Virtual Environments
Systems and Control: Modeling and Simulation of Complex Biological Systems

Currently, I am an professor of Computer Science and Data Science and the director of the Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory at the Case Western Reserve University. I started here in August 2002.
Before becoming a professor at CWRU, I was a postdoctoral researcher / research specialist at the UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab between August 2000 and August 2002. I worked with Prof. Shankar S. Sastry and Prof. Frank Tendick.