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Dr Hakan Yekta Yatbaz

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr Hakan Yekta Yatbaz

Dr Hakan Yekta Yatbaz

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

My research focuses on safe and resilient AI for autonomous systems. I design detector-agnostic, sequence-aware run-time monitors that introspect internal neural representations of LiDAR-centric perception to predict, localise, and explain false negatives/positives. My work couples uncertainty from activation patterns with temporal consistency and multi-modal cues, translating introspection signals into policy/SOTIF-compliant safety actions (alerts, MRM). Beyond driving, I explore lightweight anomaly detection and HAR on wearables, extending these principles to broader safety-critical sensing.

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  • h.yatbaz@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Including but not limited to:

  • Run-time monitoring & introspection of perception (LiDAR-centric, detector-agnostic)
  • Activation-pattern analysis, representation learning, and self-supervised features
  • Uncertainty quantification, calibration, OOD/novelty & anomaly detection for ADS applications
  • Domain generalisation, zero-/few-shot using language–vision embeddings
  • Lightweight edge models; ROS2/CARLA simulation-in-the-loop evaluation

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