Alp Can Karacakol

I am a co-founder of CELLnROLL, where we develop robotic technologies for next-generation biomedical applications, building on my background in robotics and machine learning research. I earned my B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), specializing in control and robotics, and completed a minor in Business Administration. I pursued a combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, with a focus on machine learning and robotics, and later received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS). My research has led to magnetic programming methods (patent-pending), data-driven design algorithms, and computational models for magnetic robots. Taking these systems and collaborative projects from concept to working prototypes with interdisciplinary international teams provided crucial know-how for CELLnROLL, where we are translating this research into scalable, real-world tools that improve biomedical workflows.