
Selçuk Bayraktar was born in 1980 in Sarıyer, Istanbul as the middle child. Originally from Trabzon. His brothers Haluk Bayraktar and Ahmet Bayraktar. His father, Özdemir Bayraktar, is the owner of Baykar Makine. Özdemir Bayraktar, who was a political father in the 1990s, met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in those years.
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Selçuk Bayraktar, graduated from Robert College in 1997 and continued his undergraduate education in ITU Electronics and Communication Engineering Department. During her studies, she received an internship from the GRASP laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his graduate studies in Upenn between 2002-2004 with the scholarship offer he received. He received his master's degree on unmanned aircraft at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He conducted studies on formation flight experiments of UAVs, coordination of air-ground robot teams, flight control and guidance systems.
After completing his graduate studies, he received a scholarship from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for his outstanding achievements during his studies. During his doctoral studies, he carried out studies on automatic flight control algorithms that would give Unmanned Helicopter Systems the ability to perform aggressive maneuvering.
He has been working as Technical Manager (CTO) at Baykar Makina since 2007. Aviation system architecture, flight control, development of navigation algorithms, system kinematics and dynamics, electronic hardware and embedded software development etc. of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, developed as National and Original within Baykar. issues.
Bayraktar, a Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, fired the missile developed by Roketsan on 17 December 2015 and hit the targets with 100% accuracy in the firing test loaded with 2 Roketsan MAM-L guided missiles.
Selçuk Bayraktar has been working as Technical Manager (CTO) at Baykar Makina since 2007. Aviation system architecture, flight control, development of navigation algorithms, system kinematics and dynamics, electronic hardware and embedded software development etc. of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, developed as National and Original within Baykar. issues.
Bayraktar, who married Sümeyye Erdoğan, the daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Saturday, May 14, 2016, has one daughter.