CV

SUMMARY

  • Electrical and Electronics Engineer with +7 years of experience in academia (about precision farming) and +2 years of experience in the private sector.
  • Designed and implemented variable-rate sprayer system for orchards which is increased spraying efficiency %50 by adjusting spraying based on tree canopy volume data.
  • Implemented data science skills on various academic research projects (about precision farming).
  • Professional, creative, flexible with analytical skills and proven skills at project management, organization, and research. 

INTERESTS

Travelling by car (traveled from Turkey to 17 European countries), cooking (Turkish Cuisine, spicy foods are my favorite), carpentry (building a sofa), data science applications in agriculture (digitalization of the farming can feed 1billion extra people)

EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE

Namik Kemal University, Biosystems Engineering Department

Tekirdag, Turkey

Research Assistant / Data Analyst

June 2010 – Present

  • As a head of Electronic Design team of the first Solar Car (SonOfSun – AmonRa) at Namik Kemal University, we attended to national solar car race which is organized by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and got 11th place at 2014 within 21 teams
  • As a head of Electronic Design team of the first Electric Car (SonOfSun – Cherry) at Namik Kemal University, we attended to international Efficiency Challenge Electric Vehicle 2016 which is organized by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and got 10th place at 2016 within 34 teams
  • I was the team captain of Namik Kemal University Robot Team (Tractacus) at FieldRobotEvent, 2012. This competition was organized by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen University and Research at Venlo-Netherland. We got the 3rd place at Free Style competition with our robot within 20 teams from 9 different countries.
  • I took part in the 8 research projects as a researcher which are funded more than $250.000 in total.
  • As a member of editorial board of the Namik Kemal University, Journal of Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty, I am responsible for management and update of the journal website.

Turksan Electronic

Istanbul, Turkey

Technical Support and Sales Engineer

June 2006 – May 2009

  • Technical support and sales engineer at CCTV and home automation (X10) company. I was responsible for management and coordination of 4 individuals in my team
  • I got %5 equity of the company based on my performance at the sales
  • Conducted educational programs for 1300 vendors at more than 60 provinces of Turkey about new products and giving them technical support
  • Installation support for end-users
  • Post and Pre-sales consultancy

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Namik Kemal University

Tekirdag, Turkey

Ph.D. Candidate, Biosystems Engineering – Agricultural Machinery

Feb 2013 –Present

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Machine Learning Summer School

July 2014

Namik Kemal University

Tekirdag, Turkey

M.Sc., Biosystems Engineering – Agricultural Machinery

Feb 2009 – June 2013

Sakarya University

Sakarya, Turkey

B.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Sep 2002– June 2006

Data Camp

Feb 2017 – Apr 2017

Data Scientist with Python  Certificate

Hub Spot Academy

Feb 2017

Inbound Marketing Certificate

Coursera – University of Washington

Jan 2016 – Sep 2016

Machine Learning Specialization Certificate

You can check my academic papers at the following links:

Researchgate- Eray Önler

Google Scholar – Eray Önler

Namik Kemal University – Eray Önler