Mustafa Ünel

Mustafa Ünel is a Professor and Program Coordinator for Mechatronics Engineering at Sabanci University's Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences. He directs the Control, Vision and Robotics Research Lab and serves as a Senior Researcher at SU-IMC. His research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning applications in industrial systems.

He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and has held academic positions at Gebze Institute of Technology and Yale University. Current research projects include autonomous vehicle navigation, system health prediction, and aerospace manufacturing technologies funded by TUBITAK and Ford Otosan.

He has supervised over 50 graduate theses and teaches courses including Autonomous Mobile Robotics, Nonlinear Control, and Computer Vision. His industrial collaborations focus on AI applications in automotive systems and construction automation.