Congratulations to Mr. Islam Guven, Mr. Hamid Balanji and Ms. Atefeh Molaei on the successful defense of their MSc thesis. The theses address different problems regarding multi-UAV coordination incorporating multi-objective optimization, reinforcement learning and successive optimization for multi-target search and rescue missions and network performance analysis for a UAV swarm.

Thesis are entitled as follows:

Islam Guven, “Multi-UAV Path Planning for Joint Coverage and Connectivity using Reinforcement Learning,” Ozyegin University, December 2024.

Hamid Balanji, “Search and Rescue with Multiple UAVs: \\[0.5\baselineskip]Target detection and connectivity,” Ozyegin University, December 2024.

Atefeh Molaei, “Network Provisioning using Multiple UAVs in \\[0.5\baselineskip] Search and Rescue Missions,” Ozyegin University, December 2024.