Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) Sedat Simavi Awards have been announced for 2023. We are delighted to share that Prof. Halil Kavaklı, head of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Department and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been honored with the 2023 Sedat Simavi Science Award. Wholehearted congratulations to Prof. Halil Kavaklı for his outstanding achievement and best wishes for his continued success.

Assoc. Prof. Savaş Taşoğlu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering was awarded the Dr. Nejat Eczacıbaşı Medical Incentive Award for his work that contributed to the development of devices that can measure the reactions of various drugs to bioactive molecule combinations, diagnose diseases cost-effectively, and measure and analyze different health parameters in the long term. Wholehearted congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Savaş Taşoğlu for his outstanding achievement and best wishes for his continued success.

Wholehearted congratulations to Prof. Seda Keskin Avcı for this outstanding accomplishment, and best wishes for her continued success

Wholehearted congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Barış Yıldız for this outstanding accomplishments.

Wholehearted congratulations to Prof. Seda Kızılel and her team members for this outstanding accomplishment, and best wishes for their continued success.

Wholehearted congratulations to Prof. Seda Keskin for this outstanding accomplishment, and best wishes for her continued success.

Bariscan Bozkurt, an M.S. student of Electrical-Electronics Engineering and a fellow of KUIS AI Center, and Alper T. Erdogan, Professor of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at KUIS AI Center, in collaboration with their co-authors Ates Isfendiyaroglu from UAA and Cengiz Pehlevan from Harvard University, recently presented their work titled ‘Correlative Information Maximization Based Biologically Plausible Neural Networks for Correlated Source Separation’ at ICLR 2023, a high-tier AI conference. They proposed a novel, biologically-plausible neural network framework that leverages the principles of information theory to model potential methods of sensory stimuli processing in our brains.

We are excited to highlight the groundbreaking work led by faculty member Assoc. Prof. Aykut Erdem, featuring the collaborative efforts of researchers at Koç University, Hacettepe University, and Adobe Research, recently accepted in ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics Professor and former President Prof. Umran S.İnan has been honoured with the John Adam Fleming Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), presented to one esteemed scientist every year since 1962 (https://www.agu.org/honors/fleming).