Asist. Prof. Dr. Murat ŞİMŞEK (Head of Department)

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Murat ŞİMŞEK completed his bachelor degree and master education at Kırıkkale University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He completed his master's degree on the effect of super-resolution methods on improving hyperspectral image resolutions. He completed his PhD education at Ankara University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He completed his PhD on real-time target detection in Hyperspectral images. 

He has worked in many different positions such as electrical-electronics engineer, electronic technologies specialist, artificial intelligence specialist, project manager in his working life.  He has academic studies on image processing and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, image processing, hyperspectral imaging, embedded systems, signal processing, Matlab/Python programming languages ​​are among his fields of study. He has been involved in many projects in these fields.

Asist. Prof. Dr. Osman AKIN

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Osman Akın completed his bachelor's degree in 2001 and his master's degree in 2007 at Sakarya University Computer Engineering department. He completed his doctorate in the field of Artificial Intelligence at Hacettepe University Computer Engineering department in 2016. He worked as a researcher at Surrey University in 2014.

He started his career as a public servant. He worked as a software development engineer, expert software development engineer, cyber security expert, software integration engineer and network administrator during his public service. He has worked as a software team leader and software architect in the private sector for the last 5 years. He gave courses on artificial intelligence, database and network security as a guest lecturer at Private Universities. His areas of interest are artificial intelligence, web programming, database, network security and blockchain

Asist. Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin ERAVCI

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He completed his undergraduate education with high honors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Hacettepe University. During his graduate studies, he developed algorithms for automatic classification of time series using machine learning algorithms in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University. In his doctoral studies completed at the Department of Computer Engineering at Bilkent University, he designed algorithms for analysis, storage, and efficient retrieval of different types of temporal data. Additionally, he developed artificial intelligence and data analytics algorithms for various use cases with data from Barcelona City Council, Telecom Italia, and social media platforms (Twitter, Reddit and Foursquare). The methods and results published in prestigious CS conferences and journals received over 120 citations.

In addition to his academic research, he has held various positions in different sectors, ranging from defense industry to innovative technology startups, as a machine learning and artificial intelligence expert, senior software developer and project manager. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Currently, he continues his research in data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms on data of various velocity, size, and modality. He is also deploying his academic expertise and industry experience to serve public health with his company, heQa.ai, focusing on scalable artificial intelligence solutions for the healthcare sector.

 Assist. Prof. Dr. Rayan ABRİ 

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He completed his Ph.D. from Hacettepe University, Department of Computer Engineering in 2021. In the Ph.D. program, he focused on deep autoencoder and LSTM networks to extract desired

patterns. He achieved his MSc. at Hacettepe University as the best master's students in 2014. He has done his bachelor's in Azad University and remarked as the 1st student in the computer engineering program.

Dr.Rayan Abri plays a critical role in architectural designing the artificial intelligence products in space and defense companies. He is working as artificial intelligent specialist with focusing on many projects about machine learning and deep learning-based project in the private sector. He is the technical leader of various video and image processing and Numerical Analysis projects based on AI techniques.

Asist. Prof. Dr. Tacettin Sercan Pekin

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Dr. Pekin was born in Ankara in 1985. After graduating from Bilkent University Computer Engineering in 2007, he completed his master's degree at the same department in 2010. In addition, he obtained another BS degree from Anadolu University Faculty of Business Administration in 2013. Finally, he completed his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Information Systems at Middle East Technical University in 2017. Since 2006, he has been working as a software developer. Over time, he worked as a technical leader, designer, technical manager, and finally, he established his own software company with his entrepreneurial identity. In addition to his engineering career, he has also worked in the academic field since 2007, and besides being a full-time assistant at Bilkent University, he worked as a visiting lecturer at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Computer Engineering and Management Information Systems departments, and Gazi University Industrial Engineering Department. He currently is affiliated at Ostim Teknik University Management Information Systems Department. Dr. Pekin's areas of study and expertise include Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Games, Virtual-Augmented Reality and Mobile Application Development.

Educational Assist. Aybüke Bozkurt Yeniyer 

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She graduated from Atılım University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Information Systems Engineering in 100% English (with 100% scholarship) in 2019. She developed a mobile application with ReactNative as his undergraduate thesis.In 2019, she started her master's education at Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering.She started he doctorate education in Gazi University Computer Engineering Department in 2021.

Her fields of study and interest are; Data Mining and Machine Learning.

Research Assist. Mehmet Bilgin

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Mehmet Bilgin was born in Akşehir in 1995. He graduated from KTO Karatay University Mechatronics Engineering in 2017. As an undergraduate project, he built a hexadrone that follows the human body. In his career, he has programmed industrial collaborative robot arms and developed interfaces for them, and has developed projects that provide product quality control with machine learning and image processing. He is completing his master's degree in Mechatronics Engineering at Necmettin Erbakan University.