Computer Engineering

  • Engin Erzin
  • Associate Professor of Computer Engineering
  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Koc University
  • Rumeli Feneri Yolu
  • 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Tel: +90 (212) 338-1533
  • Fax: +90 (212) 338-1548
  • E-Mail: eerzin@ku.edu.tr
  • Home Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~eerzin

Education:

  • Ph.D., Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1995
  • M.Sc., Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1992
  • B.Sc., Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1990

Research Interests:

  • Speech Processing: Low bit rate speech coding, speech recognition in adverse enviroments, speaker identification and verification
  • Joint Audio-Visual Modeling: Joint audio-visual analysis for speaker/speech recognition, joint auido-visual analysis towards automatic realistic synthesis of head gestures from speeh
  • Bioinformatics: Statistical methods to uncover gene regulatory networks

 

  • Atilla Gürsoy

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science, 1994
  • M.Sc., Bilkent University, Computer Eng and Information Sciences, 1988
  • B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Computer Engineering, 1986

Research Interests:

  • Parallel computing: algorithms and programming languages
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Data mining

 

  • Alptekin Küpçü

Education:

  • Ph.D., Brown University, Computer Science, 2010
  • M.Sc., Brown University, Computer Science, 2007
  • B.Sc., Bilkent University, Computer Engineering, 2004

Research Interests:

  • Cryptography
  • Security
  • Privacy
  • Security in Cloud Computing Systems
  • Security in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks
  • Cryptology and Game Theory
  • Theoretical Computer Science

 

  • Öznur Özkasap

Education:

  • Ph.D., Ege University, Computer Engineering, 2000
  • M.Sc., Ege University, Computer Engineering, 1994
  • B.Sc., Ege University, Computer Engineering, 1992

Research Interests:

  • Distributed Computing Systems
  • Peer-to-Peer Systems, Algorithms and Applications
  • Distributed Biology-inspired Epidemic Algorithms
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Computer Networks and Multicast Protocols
  • Parallel Computing

 

  • Tevfik Metin Sezgin

Education:

  • PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006
  • M.Sc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001
  • B.Sc., Syracuse University, Computer Science, 1999

Research Interests:

  • Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Affective Computing and Affective Interfaces
  • Pen-Based Computing
  • Computer Graphics and Animation
  • Intelligent Driver Monitoring Systems
  • Statistical Techniques in Medicine
  • Machine Learning and Computer Vision Applications

 

  • Serdar Taşıran

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1998
  • M.S., University of California at Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1995
  • B.Sc., Bilkent University, Electrical Engineering, 1991

Research Interests:

  • Software engineering: Software reliability, program analysis, foundations of software engineering
  • Software verification: Validation and bug detection tools and techniques
  • Concurrent systems: Multi-threaded software, multi-processor hardware
  • Design automation tools for hardware and software systems: Synthesis, verification, performance analysis and optimization
  • Information visualization

 

  • Yücel Yemez

Education:

  • Ph.D., Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1997
  • M.Sc., Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1992
  • B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1989

Research Interests:

  • Computer vision and graphics
  • 3D reconstruction, modeling, animation, visualization and transmission
  • 3D scanning and digitization
  • Content-based 3D object retrieval
  • Multicamera motion capture
  • Multimodal signal processing
  • Pattern recognition and machinde learning

 

  • Emine Yılmaz
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
  • Koc University
  • Rumeli Feneri Yolu
  • 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Tel: +90 (212) 338-1737
  • Fax: +90 (212) 338-1548
  • E-Mail: eyilmaz@ku.edu.tr
  • Home Page:  home.ku.edu.tr/~eyilmaz

Education:

  • Ph.D., Northeastern University, Computer Science, 2007
  • M.Sc., Northeastern University, Computer Science, 2004
  • B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Computer Engineering, 2002

Research Interests:

  • Machine learning and statistics
  • Information theory
  • Web search
  • Information retrieval
  • Data mining

 

  • Deniz Yüret

Education:

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science,1998
  • M.Sc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994
  • B.Sc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1992

Research Interests:

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications to:
  • Natural language processing
  • Agent based computational economics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetic algorithms and optimization
  • Game theory