Baykal Sarıoğlu

Associate Professor · Embedded Systems · IC Design · Game Developer

Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. PhD from Boğaziçi University in optically powered CMOS systems. Patent holder with 15+ years of academic and industrial work.

Selected Work

Engineering

Professional FPGA engineering background. Optically powered CMOS systems, analog/digital IC design, MEMS scanner drivers, neural network accelerators.

Interior lighting systems with LIN communication for major automotive OEMs.

End-to-end solutions — DLMS/COSEM, AES-GCM, OTA, sensor networks, dashboards.

PI on TUBITAK and TEYDEB projects — biomedical microsystems, battery management, in-vivo imaging.

Custom DLMS/COSEM protocol tool — license-free metering, AES-GCM, PyQt6 GUI.

Institutional research management SaaS — project lifecycle, budgets, commission workflows.

Apps & Games

Local, privacy-first mobile app for scanning receipts and exporting ZIP archives.

Street cats of Kadıköy as puzzles. Phaser 3, Facebook Instant Games.

New puzzle games currently in development.

Physics puzzle — multi-directional gravity, teleporters, cargo delivery.

Music

Tatsumaki, Hükümran Senfoni — orchestral + electronic.

Recent Publications · Full list on Scholar →

2026 A self-tuning resonance-locking method for polymer MEMS microscanners · J. Micromech. Microeng.
2026 NeuralTimer: Configuration-based neural network approach to hardware timer based applications · IEEE Access
2025 Real-time visual navigation framework for edge-level systems using classical vision algorithms · INISTA 2025
2025 Scalable mesh networking with machine learning for real-time crop yield prediction · ASYU 2025
2025 FPGA implementation of an optimized neural network for CFD acceleration · AEU-Int. J. Electronics and Communications

About

Teaching

  • Digital Systems Design
  • Electronics II
  • Logic Circuits & Microprocessors
  • Integrated Circuit Design
  • Advanced Digital Design
  • Embedded System Design