Tekin is the Chief Technology Officer of Locomation, a provider of safe and reliable automated driving technologies for ground transportation industry. Prior to Locomation, Tekin was a a Special Faculty / Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he joined as a Senior Robotics Engineer. Prior to joining NREC as a full-time staff, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU, leading the efforts on building intuitive and expressive interfaces to interact with semi-autonomous robotic systems that are intended to assist the elderly and disabled, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the RI at CMU, leading the Assistive Dexterous Arm (ADA) project at the Personal Robotics Lab, and working on the CHIMP robot at NREC for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Tekin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, where his thesis contributed a case-based mobile manipulation framework. He received the MSCS degree from the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, and the BS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering at Marmara University, Turkey.