BETA (Bogaziçi Üniversitesi Elektronik Tasarim ve Arastirma Laboratuvarı) has research areas on design automation systems for analog and digital circuits, low-power design, power aware design methodologies, analog-to-digital converter circuits and architectures especially Sigma-Delta ADC's, speech processing hardware, embedded systems and mixed-signal industrial oriented designs.

The Bogazici University Center for Signal and Image Processing (BUSIM) purports to be a regional center of excellence in the theory and the applications of image processing, speech processing, statistical signal processing, video coding, computer vision, biomedical signal/image processing and man-machine interfaces. BUSIM has been hosting a number of international conferences and funded by both national and international (European Framework) projects. Current projects include speech transcription and speaker alteration, watermarking and steganalysis, 3D shape retrieval, multimodal biometry for identification/verification, Bayesian signal processing for brain interfaces and quality control in textile industry, seismic source separation, intrusion detection and array processing.

VAVlab (Volumetric Analysis and Visualization Group) is a multidisciplinary group conducting research primarily on analysis and visualization of multidimensional 3D data, ranging from scalar fields to tensor fields and video. Application fields range from multimedia to medicine, including medical decision support systems, virtual/augmented reality for medicine, video enhancement, etc. VAVlab runs projects in collaboration with academic partners both from Turkey and abroad.

"The Intelligent Systems Laboratory" was established in 1997 – with major financial support from the Turkish State Planning Agency. Since then, its funding has extended to include B.U., TUBITAK and various Turkish industrial companies. The laboratory aims to design and realize automation systems for a wide spectrum of applications ranging from automated inspection to robotics. Current projects include attentive vision, the design and development of mobile robot prototypes, autonomous robots, automated inspection, teleoperation, sensory and motor driver systems, and computational biology.

Lung Acoustics Laboratory (LAL) is a place where researchers from different disciplines come and work together.Main areas of research conducted in LAL involve both hardware development for lung sound acquisition and diagnosis instrumentation and algorithm development for further processing of acquired lung sounds with the final aim of building an “intelligent stethoscope”. Some of the current topics in LAL are online processing and classification of respiratory sounds using digital signal processors, multi-resolution analysis of respiratory sounds, system development for multi-channel acquisition of respiratory sounds and modeling air flow-lung sound relationship.

Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacture of products and processes. Bogazici University UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics focuses on developing new methodologies in the areas of intelligent systems and mechatronics. The research includes combination of both theoretical studies and their practical applications to robotics and nonlinear systems. Some practical applications of the Mechatronics Laboratory are robotic manipulators (2 DOF SCARA, 5DOF CRS/Quanser and Inverted Pendulum), electromechanical system (Antilock Braking System) and flexible manufacturing system (MPS 500).

The aim of BUMEMS is to do research on Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), circuits, MEMS-circuit integration and polymer microfabrication. The initial focus is mainly on polymer microfabrication and their applications to polymer electronics, polymer light emitting diodes, tactile imagers and various integrated micro systems with polymer sensors and actuators since it involves relatively cheaper and easier fabrication methods and equipments.

The Speech Processing Group conducts research in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, voice conversion, 3-D audio-visual synthesis, speech synthesis, speech therapy and speaker identification.The group also collaborates with various research partners in the speech and language processing area on topics including biometrics, natural language processing, information retrieval and Turkish sign language processing. There are two spin-off speech research companies from the group: GVZ (www.gvz.com.tr) and SESTEK (www.sestek.com.tr). Both companies have products based on speech recognition, speech synthesis and voice conversion technology.

Bogazici University Wireless Communications Laboratory (WCL) was established in 2005 with the grants received from the Bogazici University Reseearch Projects Fund and the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). These two, as well as the State Planning Organization (DPT), are still the main funding agencies of WCL. Currently, WCL has 2 full-time faculty members, 2 PhD and 5 MS students conducting research on high-speed wireless/mobile/satellite communications. WCL also has close collaborations and joint projects with the VLSI Design Lab (BETA), the Computer Nertwork Research Lab (NETLAB) and the Satellite Communications Research Lab (SATLAB). You can find information on the WCL personnel, main research areas and activities, research projects  and  publications at wcl.boun.edu.tr.

Broadly we are interested in developing scalable mathematical theories for the analysis and design of large-scale complex dynamical systems, examples of which include cellular and ad hoc networks for wireless communications, sensor networks which have emerged as a fundamentally new tool for monitoring inaccessible environments, and teams of autonomous agents such as robots, autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAV), autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), and autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). Within the laboratory, a testbed is setup to develop a team of robot players eligible to compete for the championship in the RoboCup Small-Size League. For more information, visit the laboratory website.