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Mobile gaming company, Loop Games, co-founded by our CS graduate Mert Gür (2017), received upto $60 million investment from international mobile games publisher Tilting Point. The company was founded in 2019. Since then, games developed by the Ankara-based company have been downloaded more than 50 million times on iOS and Android platforms; in 2020, Loop Games made $20 million in game sales. The investment, Tilting Point’s largest to date, will be used to accelerate the growth of one of the games of the company, Match 3D. Loop Games’ biggest markets are the US, Japan, England and Germany. The company is planning to release five more games in 2021.

The other co-founders of Loop Games include other Bilkent graduates: Aziz Fırat Avşar (IE ’17), Gülşebnem Sayın (GRA ’18), Kürşad Can Mutlu (CTIS ’16).

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A book on founding startup companies, written by Computer Engineering Graduate Ilker Koksal (CS’2013) is now available in Amazon.com.  Entitled as “Founder’s FAQ”, the book has also made into the bestseller list in Venture Capital category.

“Founder’s FAQ is an authentic guide for founders by revealing what works and what doesn’t in the predictable journey of the startup. It covers the answers to all the possible questions of a founder in a startup journey–whether revealing lifesaving principles for the startup’s survival path, building A+ teams, creating an evolving machine, setting up a neat culture, or interpreting the true path for the fundraising. ” [Amazon Booksite]

Biography

Selim Aksoy, Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, has been  promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective March 18, 2021.

Dr. Aksoy received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2001. Before joining Bilkent, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at UW during 1996-2001, and as a Research Scientist at Insightful Corporation in Seattle during 2001-2003.  He spent 2013 as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

Dr. Aksoy’s current research interests include computer vision, statistical and structural pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining with applications to object recognition, image and video classification, remote sensing image analysis and medical imaging.

We congratulate Selim Aksoy for being promoted to Full Professor of Computer Engineering.

An Event for MS/PhD Applicants

Graduate school open house took place on March 27th through Zoom.

Students interested in doing MS and PhD in our department were able to get information about our research. There were interactive sessions.

Potential applicants  learned about the admission process and financial support opportunities. They met with our faculty members.

Event link: http://gradopenhouse.bilkent.edu.tr/

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Dündar‘s project is funded by European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) program. The title of the project is “3D image synthesis with deep neural networks“.

3-dimensional image synthesis is a technology to render objects from different views which enables numerous applications in computer graphics and computer vision. As the digital world is becoming more crucial especially in the times of pandemic, such technology can provide tools for online classes, virtual social tours, improved gaming experience and simulators for robotics by providing realistic virtual 3D environments. This project will focus on the 3-dimensional image synthesis capabilities powered with deep neural networks.

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