Prof. Dr. Hasan ERBAY – Head of Department
Short Biography:
Hasan Erbay was born in Ankara in 1968. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics at Penn State University, USA and his under-
graduate studies in Mathematics at Middle East Technical University. His research interests lie in the areas of numerical linear algebra, numerical computation, approximation, image pro- cessing, and latent semantic analysis, ranging from theory to design to implementation. Erbay is married and the father of two sons.
Research Interests:
Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Computation, approximation, Image processing, Latent Semantic Analysis
Contact:
Email: herbay[at]thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 –
Office: 156
Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Deniz TEKİN
Short Biography:
Dr. Tekin received a BSc degree from the physics department of KSU and a PhD degree from the physics department of METU in 2002 and 2010, respectively. During her PhD, she spent one year in the chemical engineering and material science department of the University of California, Davis. She worked as a research assistant at METU for the years 2002-2010, as an assistant professor at UTAA flight training department for the years 2011-2016, as a post-doctoral researcher and as a visiting scholar at Bilkent University, UNAM. She received the Associated Professor title from the Council of Higher Education in October 2017. Since January 2018, she has been working as a faculty member at UTAA.
Research Interests:
Modelling of Soft Materials, Nanomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Computational Techniques
Contact:
Email: edtekin[at]thk.edu.tr
Phone: 90 312 589 6046
Office: F157
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suat DENGİZ
Short Biography:
Bachelor’s Degree: Hacettepe University – Department of Physics (2008)
Master’s Degree: METU – Department of Physics, High Energy and Plasma Physics (2011)
PhD: METU – Department of Physics, High Energy and Plasma Physics (2014)
Postdoc Studies:
- METU – Department of Physics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Research Laboratory, Theoretical Physics Center
Job Experience:
Eastern Mediterranean University, Department of Physics (Part-Time Instructor)
Research Interests:
Classical and Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theories, Cosmology and Black Holes, Hawking-Strominger-Perry holographic quantum information storage
Contact:
Email: sdengiz[at]thk.edu.tr
Phone: 90 312 589 6114
Office: 168
Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan Ezgi KIZILÖZ
Short Biography:
After graduating from Mathematics Department of TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU) in 2008, Dr. Hakan Ezgi Kızılöz received his MSc and PhD degrees from Computer Engineering Department of the same university in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Throughout these graduate programs, he assisted several courses at TOBB ETU and TED University. He also gave introduction to programming courses to students from economics and several engineering departments during his PhD study. His research interests include usable security and machine learning. He has publications in wireless sensor networks and usable security areas.
Research Interests:
Human-Computer Interaction, Usable Security, Wireless Sensor Networks, Machine Learning, Multiobjective Optimization
Contact:
Email: hakan.kiziloz[at]ceng.thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 –
Office: 169
Assist. Prof. Dr. Hasan AKSOY
Short Biography:
Dr. Hasan Aksoy hold a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering since 1998. He received his MSc & PhD degrees in Circuits design, Microelectronics and Microsystems from the Doctoral School GEET (Electrical, Electronics & and Telecommunication Engineering) of Paul Sabatier university (Toulouse, FRANCE) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. His PhD work, titled as “Drowsiness estimation of an operator: automatic analysis of physiological signals”, was achieved in LAAS-CNRS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems of the French National Scientific Research Centre). This work was a part of the big European project SENSATION (Advanced Sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance and sleep) in cooperation with many laboratories in France, Sweden and Greece.
Dr Aksoy is working as an assistant professor since 2008. He worked in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and in Computer Engineering Department in Several universities. He joined the academic staff in Faculty of Engineering of the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in April 2014.
Research Interests:
Embedded systems, Digital Circuit Design, Physiological Signals (EEG, ECG & EOG), Classification, Sensors and Drowsiness detection.
Contact:
Email: haksoy[at]thk.edu.tr
Phone: +90-312-589-6064
Office: F159
Assist. Prof. Dr. Meltem Yıldırım İMAMOĞLU
Short Biography:
Meltem Imamoglu received her B.S. degree from Hacettepe University Statistic Department (1998) and M.S. degree from Information Systems program at Middle East Technical University (2004). She has Ph.D. degree from Atılım University. She has conference papers, scientific articles and book chapters about cloud computing, IT audit, electronic public procurement and interoperability subjects. She was technical coordinator of the e-audit project that applies all tax offices around the country. She has over 15 years of experience in the government ICT industry as a Software Developer and Project Manager.
Research Interests:
e-Procurement, Interoperability, e-Audit, Sustainable Management, Data Analysis and Statistics Solutions, Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Decision Support Systems, Cloud Computing, Supply Chain Management
Contact:
Email: meltem.imamoglu[at]ceng.thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 – 6050
Office: 158
Assist. Prof. Dr. Shadi AL SHEHABI
Email: shadi.alshehabi[at]ceng.thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 – 6051
Office: 173
R.A. NİGAR ERCAN
Short Biography:
Nigar Ercan graduated from Department of Computer Engineering at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in 2018 as an honor student. She continues her studies for her Master’s Deggree in Interactive Computing and Information Technologies at TED University.
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Contact:
Email: nercan[at].thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58
Office: 143
R.A. Sine CANBOLAT (ON LEAVE)
Short Biography:
Sine Canbolat graduated from Department of Software Engineering at Atılım University in 2012. She worked as software engineer in private sector. She continues her studies for her Master’s Degree in Electrical – Computer Engineering Department of Turkish Aeronautical Association.
Research Interests:
Database design, management and programming. Data warehousing and data mining. Software quality assurance, validation, verification and testing. Software engineering
Contact:
Email: sine.canbolat[at]ceng.thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 – 6058
Office: 144
R.A. Ufuk AYDAN
Short Biography:
Ufuk AYDAN graduated from Department of Computer Engineering at Çankaya University. He completed his studies for the Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering Department of Çankaya University. He participated several academic projects. He continues his PhD program in Computer Engineering Department of Hacettepe University. He continues his duty as a Research Assistant in University of Turkish Aeronautical Association.
Research Interests:
Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, ISO/IEC 12207 Software Life Cycle Processes, Data Structures
Contact:
Email: ufuk.aydan[at]ceng.thk.edu.tr
Phone: 444 84 58 – 6057
Office: 143