Who We Are

Director of the Center:
Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Professor, Sabanci University

Board Members:
Dr. H. Sait Ölmez, Assistant Prof. Öznur Taştan, Kamer Kaya, Kemal Kılıç

Advisory Board:

Anil Jain, Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University & IEEE Distinguished Fellow
Burak Aydın, MBA, General Manager, SabancıDx
Emine Yılmaz, Assoc. Prof., University College London & Alan Turing Institute Fellow
İlker Altıntaş, PhD, COO & CIO, Akbank
Kemal Oflazer, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar & Network Faculty, Sabanci University
Özcan Çavuş, MS, Project Architect & Business Analytics Director, EnerjiSA
Usama Fayyad, PhD, Chairman & CEO, Open Insights

Faculty Members

Berrin Yanıkoğlu

Director

Araştırma Alanları

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

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, E-commerce applications Hydrodynamic aspects of yacht design, Hull design in high-speed boats

Kamer Kaya

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Parallel Algorithms; high performance computing; BigData analysis; cryptography; bioinformatics

Yücel Saygın

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

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

Öznur Taştan

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Machine learning, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics

Selim Balcısoy

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

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

İnanç Arın

Instructor

Research Area

Ahmet Demirelli

Instructor

Araştırma Alanları

Enterprise Software, Big data

Reyyan Yeniterzi

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Text Mining, Information Retrieval (Search Engines) and Extraction

Güvenç Şahin

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Transportation and Distribution Logistics • Facility Location • Scheduling and Sequencing • Network Design and Network Flow • Crew and Personnel Planning • Heuristic Algorithms • Decision Support Systems Applications

Kemal Kılıç

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Research Interests • Decision Making Under Uncertainty • Heuristic Search and Optimization Techniques • Data Mining • Decision Support Systems • Bioinformatics • Innovation Management

Gizem Özbaygın

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

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.

Erdinç Öztürk

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Cryptography and Security, Computer Architecture, High Performance Cryptography (hardware and software applications), Post-Quantum Cryptography, FPGA Design

Bülent Çatay

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Transportation and Logistics Systems. Sustainable Transport Planning. Vehicle Routing. Electromobility. Applied Optimization. Metaheuristic Approaches to Large-Scale Problems.

Sinan Yıldırım

Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Bayesian Statistics, Monte Carlo methods

Cemre Zor

University of Surrey Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Machine learning, deep learning

Abdullah Daşcı

Vice Dean, School of Management

Research Area

Affiliated Faculty Members

Albert Levi

Affiliated Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Information and Network Security, Wireless Networt Security, Cryptography, Certificate Systems and Public Key Infrastructures, E-commerce Security, Computer Networks

Cemal Yılmaz

Affiliated Faculty Member

Araştırma Alanları

Software Engineering; Software Quality Assurance; Software Testing; Combinatorial Interaction Testing; Fault Detection, Isolation, and Characterization; Online Failure Prediction; Highly Configurable Systems; Software Security.