Activities – Mehmed K. Uludag

Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV)

I joined MAAV during my first semester at UM (Winter 22), and my experiences at MAAV have been one of the highlights of my undergraduate career. I have held multiple leadership roles, including software lead, vice-president, and president of MAAV.

I had so much fun applying coursework from my EECS classes to a small electronic board attached to motors and watching it fly (autonomously). I worked on computer vision tasks to color mask and filter out the communication mast from its surroundings.

Rowing

I first started rowing in my freshman year of high school. I developed a deep passion, partly because of the physical and mental benefits of the daily outdoor workout, but also in large part due to the connections I made and the community I felt a part of. I joined the Michigan Men's Rowing team and it has made me even more productive with my time. Since the start of the term, I have frequently found myself in "panic mode" where I always have things that I need to do, so I spend less time on unnecessary things and I am always trying to maximize my efficiency.

PJTL

PJTL Tech Lab Project: I got admitted to a year-long project where I was placed in a team and paired up with a local start-up named Utilidata. Going into start-ups has been a dream of mine for a while, and getting some hands-on experience really helped me understand the realities of that sort of environment.

First Conference

On April 10th, 2024, I had the opportunity to attend the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in Avila, Spain to present my first research paper. The conference was an amazing experience where I got a lot of good feedback and met a lot of very cool people from around the world. This experience really solidified me wanting to pursue a research-oriented career and attend grad school.

Midwest RCD Symposium 2024

Due to my research and my part-time job at ITS ARC (Advanced Research Computing), I am a frequent user of the high-performance clusters at UMich. I attended the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium Annual Meeting where I met faculty and staff from various Midwest universities as well as professionals in the supercomputing field. I was paired with Scott Hampton, Associate Director of HPC at Notre Dame, whose insights on career pathways in the field were incredibly valuable.

Bosch Internship

Over the Summer of 2024, I interned at Bosch in the Cross Computing Department, working in the Automated Park Assist (APA) Team. My biggest project was an Auto-Labeler program that would take height classification traces and create bounding boxes around objects. It used object classification and coordinate system manipulation to give exact local coordinates, replacing a manual labeling process that cost $3 per trace.