Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department
Two engineering graduates, Arda Çelebi (CS 2002) and Efe Pazarçeviren (IE 2002) established a startup company that develops an AI-based job interview platform VireUp. The platform analyzes the interview videos of candidates and evaluates the interview performance for employers to make decisions. Additionally, the platform gives feedback to job candidates about their interview performance, strong and weak points.
Assistant Professor Dr. Eray Tüzün’s project on automatic detection of improper practices in software development process received TÜBİTAK support as part TÜBİTAK 1505 program.
Dr. Dündar received her B.S. degree from Boğaziçi University in 2011 and her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2016. Her Ph.D. thesis is on machine learning with a title “Learning from Minimally Labeled Data with Accelerated Convolutional Neural Networks”. Between 2016 and 2020, she worked at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA. In NVIDIA, she worked on deep learning and computer vision. Dr. Dündar’s research fields and interests are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and software/hardware support for machine learning.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercüment Çiçek has been awarded an Aziz Sancar Incentive Award by the Health Institutes of Turkey (TÜSEB). The award aims to honor the scientific achievements of Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar. The Aziz Sancar Incentive Award is given to young scientists who are under the age of 40 and have proven their potential to make international impact with their research.
Dr. Çiçek has been granted the award based on his research in the field of bioinformatics. His research topics include machine learning based discovery of genetic disease risk genes, ensuring the privacy of individuals in genomic data sharing and automated surgeon support systems.
Dr. Çiçek, got his Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. During his Ph.D. he has worked as a visiting doctoral student at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2012. Then, he has worked in Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2015, he has been working at Bilkent University as a full-time faculty member and at Carnegie Mellon University as an adjunct faculty member.
Prof. Uğur Doğrusöz’s project on graph-based modeling, querying, and visualization of financial transactions received TÜBİTAK support. The project is supported under the University-Industry Collaboration Support Program and will be executed together with Turkcell Technology.