Taha Turgut
Physics Engineering student, Ankara

I study physics at Hacettepe and spend most of my time building things — mostly embedded systems and automation stuff, sometimes simulation software. I like problems where the physics actually matters.

This page is a rough index of what I've worked on.

Things I've built

Open-source molecular docking pipeline. Wraps AutoDock Vina and AutoDock-GPU with automatic GPU detection, multithreaded job execution, and SQLite result storage. The interesting bit is using AutoGrid electrostatic maps for binding site scoring instead of pure geometry — it picks up allosteric sites that most tools ignore.

github.com/taka78/ultidock →

My apartment had one thermostat for the whole place, so some rooms were freezing. Built a fix: RPi3B hub, BLE-connected ESP32 sensors in each room, Home Assistant for automation, MQTT for messaging. It's been running unattended for a while now.

Designed a control system for an industrial refractory oven — PyQt UI, sensor/actuator logic, data logging. Delivered the design and docs. The client ended up going with a Siemens PLC instead, which happens.

The C3 Pluriel is a weird little convertible with no spare parts supply anymore. When things break I model replacements in Fusion 360 and print them in PETG. Mostly clips, brackets, trim — stuff that's annoying to be without.

Work & research

Worked on a supercritical fluid extraction system. Interfaced temperature and pressure sensors via STM32, integrated a Raspberry Pi for valve control, built a PyQt monitoring interface, ran some COMSOL simulations. Good first look at real research hardware.

Lectures and workshops on quantum communication and sensors in Gebze. Led by Prof. Alexander Sergienko.

Skills

Embedded RPi, STM32, ESP32, BLE, MQTT, UART, GPIO, ESPHome Software Python, C/C++, CUDA, Bash; PyQt, SQLite, Docker, Linux, Git Simulation AutoDock Vina/GPU, GROMACS prep, COMSOL, numerical modelling Design Fusion 360, SolidWorks, FDM printing