Gazihan Alankus

This is my homepage for the moment.

I usually go by my short name "Gazi", so in case you google for Gazi Alankus, this sentence should help you find me.

I am a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St Louis since September 2004. My office is in Media and Machines Laboratory at Lopata 520. Since Fall 2008 I am working for Dr. Caitlin Kelleher.

I am from Turkey I got my BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University.

You can use gazihan@cse.wustl.edu to contact me.

Currently in this static page you can read about my research areas, research projects, extracurricular projects and interests.

I am a supporter of free software, mostly as in "liberated". It's like having full access to concept art and blueprints of your car, being able to reach engineers working on it or even take part in its design, which is awesome.

Research Areas

Research Projects

Potential Field Guided Inverse Kinematics for Human Characters, Symposium on Computer Animation, 2009

Gazihan Alankus, Caitlin Kelleher

[poster summary] [video]

Combined Controllers that Follow Imperfect Input Motions for Humanoid Robots, Technical Report WUCSE-2007-49, 2007

Gazihan Alankus, O. Burchan Bayazit

[technical report]

Adaptive Embedded Roadmaps For Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007, pages: 3645-3652

Gazihan Alankus, Nuzhet Atay, Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit

[conference paper] [video]

Roadmap Query for Sensor Network Assisted Navigation in Dynamic Environments, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2006, pages: 17-36

Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Nuzhet Atay, Gazihan Alankus, Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit, Gruia-Catalin Roman

[conference paper] (best paper award)

Animating Character Navigation Using Motion Graphs, Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2005

Gazihan Alankus, Advisor: Dr. Ferda Nur Alpaslan

[master's thesis] [video 1] [video 2]

Automated Motion Synthesis for Virtual Choreography, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2005, pages: 259-271

Gazihan Alankus, A. Alphan Bayazit, O. Burchan Bayazit

[journal paper on publisher's site]

Spatiotemporal Query Strategies for Navigation in Dynamic Sensor Network Environments, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2005, pages: 3718-3725

Gazihan Alankus, Nuzhet Atay, Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit

[conference paper] [simulation video] [robot video]

Extracurricular Projects

iFlag: Interactive 3D Flag Application for the iPhone with Cloth Simulation

5300+ sales so far

[website]

Interests