Erdem Erdemir is a Lead Consultant in business intelligence, applied AI/ML, predictive maintenance, and mechatronics at Pangea.
Professor Erdemir holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, an MS degree in Systems Engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey, and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same university.
Dr. Erdemir is a highly adaptable engineer, developer, and team leader with extensive research experience in R&D, robotics, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, and software development. Currently, he serves as an associate professor of computer science and director of the Biomechatronics and Agricultural Robotics (BAR) Lab at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN, overseeing research in cognitive robotics, hybrid intelligent systems, meso-scale robotics for biomedical applications, and intelligent agricultural robotics. His notable achievements include a USDA grant for developing a meso-scale intelligent robot for water leak detection, and another aimed at improving nursery production using unmanned aircraft systems.
During his tenure as a visiting research scientist at Google, he applied deep learning techniques for robotics. He previously held positions as a postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University and as a scientific programmer and research assistant at the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics (CIM), working on projects funded by the NSF, NIH, NASA, and DoD. His contributions included real-time control systems for medical devices and actively powered prosthetic limbs, as well as algorithms for vision data fusion in UAVs. In industry, he served as R&D Leader at General Systems Design, the primary distributor of General Electric in Turkey, where he established and managed an R&D department with a multimillion-dollar budget.