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You can access the details of our interview with Anadolu Agency about “STEWART - Sports acTivitiEs With weARable Technology”, one of the projects carried out in our laboratory, from the link below

Our lab has been granted a patent certificate from the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office under the number TR 2022 004079 B with his invention titled "Textile-Based Wide Area Pressure Sensing Arrays".

The Soft Sensors Lab team participated in SAHA Expo 2024 from October 22 to 26, where they showcased their innovative products at the Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) booth. The event offered an excellent opportunity to display their advancements in electronic textiles and IoT technologies to a diverse audience.

The patent titled “Textile Based Wide Area Pressure Sensing Arrays” was the result of the joint work of the founders of the Soft Sensors Laboratory, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür ATALAY from ITU Textile Engineering Department and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İNCE from ITU Computer Engineering Department won a bronze medal at the ISIF’24 9th International Invention Fair.

At the “2024-2025 Higher Education Academic Year Opening Ceremony”; the doctoral thesis “An Architectural Research Framework for the Neuroscience of Human Experience” was completed by Dr. Tülay Karakaş under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İnce, one of Soft Sensors Lab founders, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dilek Yıldız Özkan was deemed worthy of the “Fine Arts and Architecture Award” at the YÖK Outstanding Achievement Awards.

Our esteemed Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan MANDAL honored us by visiting our laboratory. During the visit, we shared information about the projects being carried out in our laboratory with him.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay was a guest at the “ITU Science and Technology Talks” and talked about the concept of smart textiles, the contribution of smart textile products to society, and everything you need to know about wearable robotic systems.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alper Gürarslan's SmartWaste project was featured in Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. The article focuses on studies using two plants to reduce the environmental damage of synthetic fibers within the scope of sustainable fashion.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay gave an invited talk and joined the panel discussion at the Future Material Conference in Hungary. As a frontrunner researcher in the area of textile-based soft robotics, he discussed the importance of soft robotics in healthcare applications.

Horizon Europe European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant will support our Textile Technologies and Design Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay’s project titled “TEXWEAROTS”.

According to the latest list of the world's most influential scientists, created annually by scientists from Stanford University, was recently published by Elsevier, 50 academicians from ITU were included. Assoc. Dr. Özgür Atalay is also involved in the list. We congratulate him on his outstanding achievement.

In the Biotechnology and Innovation Competition conducted by Teknofest, the TexRobots Team (Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Fidan Khalilbayli, Ömür Fatmanur Erzurumluoğlu) won the first prize with their “Texrobot for Hand Paralysis Rehabilitation” project.

The SofTex Team (Uğur Ayvaz, Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Ali Emre Öztaş) won the third place in the Communication Technologies Competition of Teknofest with their project "Real Time Activity and Heart Rate Detection Using Textile-Based Sensors".

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozgur Atalay has been awarded by TUBITAK 2247-A "National Leader Researchers Program".

Omur Fatmanur Erzurumluoglu and Ali Emre Oztas have been awarded by Trainee Researcher Scholarship Program (STAR) initiated by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

According to the article titled "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" published in PLOS Biology by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack and J. Baas from Stanford University, 45 academicians from ITU ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world. Assoc. Dr. Özgür Atalay is also involved in the list. We congratulate him on his outstanding achievement.