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Dr. Semih Aslan

  • Associate Professor - Ingram School of Engineering
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Biography and education

Dr. Semih Aslan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas State University, where he joined in 2011. He previously worked as a Senior FPGA Design Engineer with Motorola and full-time instructor at ITT Technical Institute. At ITT Technical Institute, Dr. Aslan worked with minority students as a full-time instructor and assistant dean for over 10 years on the west side of Chicago. Dr. Aslan is the founding director of the System Modeling and Green Technology (SMART) Lab in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State. He currently advises graduate and undergraduate senior students on green energy, multi-processor system design and data analysis projects and has numerous publications.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Asiabanpour, Bahram (Principal), Aslan, Semih (Co-Principal), Ortiz, Araceli Martinez (Co-Principal), Jimenez, Jesus (Co-Principal), Kim, Yoo-Jae (Co-Principal), Salamy, H (Co-Principal). Designing green-engineering summer camp, Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)-Engineering Summer Program, State, $12500. (Funded: June 2014). Grant.
  • Jimenez, Jesus (Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6, Aslan, Semih (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6, Koutitas, Georgios (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6, Mendez, Francis A (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6, Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6, Wierschem, David C (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %16.6. Using Industry 4.0 Digital Twins to Model Human Labor in Smart Material Handling Systems, Toyota Material Handling, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $197411.11. (Submitted: December 14, 2018, Funded: August 14, 2019 - August 13, 2020). Grant.
  • Valles Molina, Damian (Principal), Aslan, Semih (Supporting), Menezes De Carvalho, Marcelo (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting), Rolfe, Rachel Mary (Supporting), Farrell, John Wayland (Supporting), de la Cruz, Berenice (Supporting), Liu, Ting (Supporting). REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Mixed Reality for Smart and Connected Health, National Science Fundation, Federal, $371758. (Submitted: August 2024, Funded: April 1, 2025 - March 31, 2028). Grant.
  • Aslan, Semih (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Molina, Damian Valles (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Starks, James (Principal), Percent Contribution: %51. STTR Phase I: Real-Time Mineral Data Collection and Identification Module, NSF, Federal, $276000. (Funded: May 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023). Grant.
  • Valles Molina, Damian, Liu, Ting (Co-Principal), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting), Aslan, Semih (Supporting), Farrell, John Wayland (Supporting), Li, Yumeng (Supporting), Koldenhoven, Rachel M. (Supporting). REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Machine Learning, Analytics, and Augmented Reality for Smart and Connected Health, National Science Foundation, Federal, $344029. (Submitted: August 2021, Funded: January 2022 - December 2024). Grant.
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  • Sharotry, A., Jimenez, J., Wierschem, D. C., Mendez, F. A., Koutitas, G., Valles Molina, D., … Rolfe, R. M. (2021). A Digital Twin Framework for Real-Time Analysis and Feedback of Repetitive Work in the Manual Material Handling Industry (pp. 2637–2648). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9384043
  • Almusaied, Z., Asiabanpour, B., & Aslan, S. (2018). Optimization of Solar Energy Harvesting: An Empirical Approach. Journal of Solar Energy, 2018. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9609735
  • Kaya, E. B., Aslan, S., Valles Molina, D., Dutta, A. K., & Iscan, S. (2025). Motor Fault Diagnosis Across Variable Power Using Deep Learning. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS65975.2025.11099471
  • Deb, P., Valles Molina, D., & Aslan, S. (2025). FPGA based Matrix Multiplication Accelerator. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS65975.2025.11099187
  • Schulze, M., Aslan, S., Valles Molina, D., & Stern, H. P. (2025). Image Restoration with Variational Dynamic Memory Net, U-Net and LNNS. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS65975.2025.11099192
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE ctx Achievement Awards, IEEE. January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE ctx Achievement Awards, IEEE. January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE CTX Achievement Awards, IEEE. January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE CTX Achievement Awards, IEEE. January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE CTX Achievement Awards, IEEE. January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
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  1. Secretary

    IEEE Central Texas Section

  2. Participant

    Bobcat Day

  3. Reviewer / Referee

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    Elsevier - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

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