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Roboticist & Data Analyst | Expert in Mathematical Modelling & Matlab | PhD, MS NYU - BS Purdue

Profile Summary

As a Research Engineer, I apply my AI, engineering, and robotics skills to conduct cutting-edge research and testing on video surveillance and security technologies. I have a Ph.D. and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from NYU, where I leveraged state-of-art data analysis techniques to discover hidden interactions between animals, fluids, and structures.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Mechanical Engineering
• ☆ Engineering Thermodynamics/Thermophysical Engineering
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Computer Simulation/Computational Modeling
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Computer Vision
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Processing

Work Experience

Research Engineer

IPVM

September 2022 - Present

Teaching Assistant

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

September 2019 - Present

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

January 2019 - Present

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

September 2017 - December 2018

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

Purdue University

September 2013 - December 2016

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Karakaya, M., Scaramuzzi, A., Macrì, S., Porfiri, M.(2021). Acute Citalopram administration modulates anxiety in response to the context associated with a robotic stimulus in zebrafish . Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 108.

Maurizio Porfiri, Mert Karakaya, Raghu Ram Sattanapalle, Sean D. Peterson (2021). Emergence of in-line swimming patterns in zebrafish pairs . Flow.

Simone Macrì, Mert Karakaya, Chiara Spinello, Maurizio Porfiri(2020). Zebrafish exhibit associative learning for an aversive robotic stimulus . Lab Animal. 49. (9). p. 259--264. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Mert Karakaya, Simone Macrì, Maurizio Porfiri(2020). Behavioral Teleporting of Individual Ethograms onto Inanimate Robots: Experiments on Social Interactions in Live Zebrafish . iScience. 23. (8). p. 101418. Elsevier {BV}

Macrì, S., Karakaya, M., Spinello, C., Porfiri, M.(2020). Zebrafish exhibit associative learning for an aversive robotic stimulus . Lab Animal. 49. (9). p. 259-264.

Karakaya, M., Macrì, S., Porfiri, M.(2020). Behavioral Teleporting of Individual Ethograms onto Inanimate Robots: Experiments on Social Interactions in Live Zebrafish . iScience. 23. (8).

(2019). Application of symbolic recurrence to experimental data, from firearm prevalence to fish swimming . Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.

(2019). Behavioural and life-history responses of mosquitofish to biologically inspired and interactive robotic predators . Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

Polverino, G., Karakaya, M., Spinello, C., Soman, V.R., Porfiri, M.(2019). Behavioural and life-history responses of mosquitofish to biologically inspired and interactive robotic predators . Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 16. (158).

Boldini, A., Karakaya, M., Ruiz Marín, M., Porfiri, M.(2019). Application of symbolic recurrence to experimental data, from firearm prevalence to fish swimming . Chaos. 29. (11).

CONFERENCE PAPER

Karakaya, M., Macrì, S., Porfiri, M.(2021). Just like Star Trek, but a little less fancy: Behavioral teleporting of live zebrafish . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 11586.

Karakaya, M., Porfiri, M., Polverino, G.(2020). Invasive alien species respond to biologically-inspired robotic predators . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 11374.

Karakaya, M., Feng, C., Porfiri, M.(2020). Towards three-dimensional point cloud reconstruction of fish swimming . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 11374.