Board Members (since October 1, 2022):
- Director: Kamer Kaya
- Board Members: Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Onur Varol, Mehmet Kuru, A. Doruk Günaydın
Advisory Board:
- Emine Yılmaz (Assoc. Prof., University College London & Alan Turing Institute Fellow)
- Esin Yılmaz (Chief Analytics Officer, SabancıDx)
- İlker Birbil (Professor of AI & Optimization Techniques for Business & Society at the University of Amsterdam)
- Kemal Oflazer (Prof. Computer Science Program at Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar)
- Radhika Kulkarni (Former VP of Advanced Analytics R&D, SAS)
- Taylan Cemgil (Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, London)
- Ümit Çatalyürek (Prof., School of Computational Science and Eng, Georgia Institute of Tech., Amazon Scholar, AWS)
Past Board (2016 - 2022):
- Director: Berrin Yanıkoğlu
- Board Members: Öznur Taştan, Kemal Kılıç, H. Sait Ölmez, Onur Varol
![berrin yanikoglu](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/berrin_yanikoglu_w_1.jpg)
Board Member
Research Areas
Computer vision & Machine learning: biometrics, document recognition, image retrieval
![mehmet kuru](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/mehmet-kuru_0_1.jpg)
Board Member
Research Areas
Early Modern Mediterranean History, Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Commercial networks, Port Cities
![onur varol](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/onur-varol.jpg)
Board Member
Research Areas
Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Social Science, Network Science, Complex Systems
![doruk gunaydin](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2023-02/alp_3597.jpeg)
Board Member
Research Areas
Empirical asset pricing, equity returns, downside risk, international finance
![hasan sait olmez](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/hasan-sait-olmez.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Theoretical and numerical hydrodynamics, Experimental hydrodynamics Numerical techniques in nonlinear wave mechanics, Remote sensing of water waves Wave-turbulence interaction, Surfactant effects on wave dissipation Data networking and security
![Yücel Saygın](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/yucel-saygin.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Active database systems; data mining; data mining security; data warehouses; mobile data management.
![Öznur Taştan](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/oznur-tastan.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Machine learning, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics
![kemal kılıc](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/kemal-kilic.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Decision Making Under Uncertainty • Heuristic Search and Optimization Techniques • Data Mining • Decision Support Systems • Digitalization and Innovation Management
![ezgi karabulut turkseven](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2023-02/embeddedimage_2.jpeg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Integer programming, machine learning, distributed optimization, online optimization, algorithm design, bilevel optimization
![Selim Balcısoy](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/selim-balcisoy.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Visual Analytics. Data Science. Complex Systems. Computer Graphics. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Cultural Heritage. Information Visualization.
![Ayşecan Terzioğlu](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/aysecan-terzioglu_0_0.jpg)
FASS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Globalization and health inequalities; gender; biopolitics; illness experiences and narratives; anthropology of body; and anthropology of the Middle East.
![Gizem Özbaygın](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/gizem-ozbaygin.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Large-scale optimization, transportation and logistics, innovative applications in vehicle routing and scheduling, last-mile and same-day delivery planning, dynamic ride-sharing, smart mobility and logistics.
![Sinan Yıldırım](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/sinan-yildirim.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Bayesian statistics; Monte Carlo methods; data privacy; differential privacy.
![Kristen Biehl](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/kristen-biehl_0_0.jpg)
FASS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Migration and change processes; migration and coexistence; diversity, urban change; gender; social integration; social cohesion policies.
![Abdullah Dasci](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/abdullah-dasci.jpg)
SBS Faculty Member
Research Area
Supply chain management, Logistics management and design, Cash logistics management, Retail location, Pricing
![bulent catay](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/bulent-catay.jpg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Transportation and Logistics Systems. Sustainable Transport Planning. Vehicle Routing. Electromobility. Applied Optimization. Metaheuristic Approaches to Large-Scale Problems.
![Semih Onur Sezer](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/16701_1_1.jpeg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Applied probability, statistics, stochastic processes, optimal stopping, stochastic optimal control with applications in finance and engineering
![erchan aptoula](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2023-02/erchan.png)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Computer vision; digital image analysis; remote sensing; precision agriculture; biomedical image processing.
![anil koyuncu](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2023-02/3871_0.jpeg)
FENS Faculty Member
Research Areas
Automated Program Repair; Automated Fault Localization; Fix Pattern Mining; Mining Software Repositories; Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Software Engineering; Empirical Software Engineering.
![ahmetdemirelli](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/ahmet-demirelli.jpg)
FENS Instructor
Research Areas
Software architectures; enterprise Java applications, Java frameworks; mobile programming; big data processing; NoSQL; Hadoop.
![İnanç Arın](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/inanc-arin.jpg)
FENS Instructor
Research Area
Data science and visualization; natural language processing applications; sentiment analysis, churn estimation.
![Albert Levi](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/albertlevi_1_0.jpg)
Affiliated Faculty Member
Research Areas
Information and Network Security, Wireless Network Security, Cryptography, Certificate Systems and Public Key Infrastructures, E-commerce Security, Computer Networks
![Cemal Yılmaz](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/cemalyilmaz_0_0.jpg)
Affiliated Faculty Member
Research Areas
Software Engineering; Software Quality Assurance; Software Testing; Combinatorial Interaction Testing; Fault Detection, Isolation, and Characterization; Online Failure Prediction; Highly Configurable Systems; Software Security.
![Erkay Savaş](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/erkaysavas_2_0.jpg)
Affiliated Faculty Member
Research Areas
Cryptography and Security, Computer Arithmetic, High-Performance Computing, Distributed Computing.
![esra erdem](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/esraerdem_0_0.jpg)
Affiliated Faculty Member
Research Areas
Artificial intelligence. Knowledge representation and automated reasoning. Cognitive Robotics.
![Hüsnü Yenigün](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/husnuyenigun_0_0.jpg)
Affiliated Faculty Member
Research Areas
Formal methods; hardware/software verification; model checking; finite state machine based testing
![Sara Atito Ali Ahmed](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/sara-atito-ali-ahmed.jpg)
Visiting Researcher (U. Of Surrey)
Research Areas
Machine learning, image understanding, classifier combination, unsupervised learning
![Cemre Zor](/sites/verim.sabanciuniv.edu/files/2022-12/cemre-zor.jpg)
Visiting Researcher (AWS)
Research Areas
Machine learning, image understanding, classifier combination, unsupervised learning