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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

Board Member


Research Areas

Computer vision & Machine learning: biometrics, document recognition, image retrieval


mehmet kuru

Board Member


Research Areas

Early Modern Mediterranean History, Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Commercial networks, Port Cities


onur varol

Board Member


Research Areas

Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Social Science, Network Science, Complex Systems


doruk gunaydin

Board Member


Research Areas

Empirical asset pricing, equity returns, downside risk, international finance


kamer kaya

Director


Research Areas

Parallel Algorithms; high performance computing; BigData analysis


hasan sait olmez

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

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Active database systems; data mining; data mining security; data warehouses; mobile data management.


Öznur Taştan

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Machine learning, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics


kemal kılıc

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

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Integer programming, machine learning, distributed optimization, online optimization, algorithm design, bilevel optimization


Selim Balcısoy

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Visual Analytics. Data Science. Complex Systems. Computer Graphics. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Cultural Heritage. Information Visualization.


Ayşecan Terzioğlu

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

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

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Bayesian statistics; Monte Carlo methods; data privacy; differential privacy.


 Kristen Biehl

FASS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Migration and change processes; migration and coexistence; diversity, urban change; gender; social integration; social cohesion policies.


Abdullah Dasci

SBS Faculty Member


Research Area

Supply chain management, Logistics management and design, Cash logistics management, Retail location, Pricing


bulent catay

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

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Applied probability, statistics, stochastic processes, optimal stopping, stochastic optimal control with applications in finance and engineering


erchan aptoula

FENS Faculty Member


Research Areas

Computer vision; digital image analysis; remote sensing; precision agriculture; biomedical image processing.


anil koyuncu

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

FENS Instructor


Research Areas

Software architectures; enterprise Java applications, Java frameworks; mobile programming; big data processing; NoSQL; Hadoop.


İnanç Arın

FENS Instructor


Research Area

Data science and visualization; natural language processing applications; sentiment analysis, churn estimation.


Albert Levi

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

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

Affiliated Faculty Member


Research Areas

Cryptography and Security, Computer Arithmetic, High-Performance Computing, Distributed Computing.


esra erdem

Affiliated Faculty Member


Research Areas

Artificial intelligence. Knowledge representation and automated reasoning. Cognitive Robotics.


Hüsnü Yenigün

Affiliated Faculty Member


Research Areas

Formal methods; hardware/software verification; model checking; finite state machine based testing


 Sara Atito Ali Ahmed

Visiting Researcher (U. Of Surrey)


Research Areas

Machine learning, image understanding, classifier combination, unsupervised learning


 Cemre Zor

Visiting Researcher (AWS)


Research Areas

Machine learning, image understanding, classifier combination, unsupervised learning


İlker Birbil

Visiting Researcher (Amsterdam U.)


Research Areas

Optimization and Machine Learning