Umut Durak
Deputy Head Of Department Safety Critical Systems And Systems Engineering at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolUmut Durak is a leader in aeronautical informatics and safety-critical systems with over 15 years of experience, currently serving as Deputy Head of Department for Safety Critical Systems and Systems Engineering at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and heading the Assured Embedded Systems Group. He also leads the Avionics Systems research group and holds an adjunct professorship at Clausthal University of Technology, bridging applied research and teaching in airborne cyber-physical systems. His background in mechanical engineering (PhD) and a habilitation in computer science underpin a rare cross-disciplinary expertise in resilient, intelligent avionics engineering. Known for translating rigorous academic methods into practical, certifiable system designs, he focuses on assurance for embedded systems where safety, autonomy, and complexity intersect. Based in Brunswick, Germany, he combines departmental leadership with hands-on research supervision and collaborative industry-academic projects.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityHabilitation Computer Science, Habilitation Computer Science at Technische Universität Clausthal
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umutdurak/umutdurak.github.io
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
otopcu/MDSceE
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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