Participation was pretty high to the meeting of CE Alumni which took place after our faculty member from Electrical and Electronics Engineering department Prof. Dr. Özgür Barış Akan’s seminar on “Internet of Everything – From Molecules to the Universe”

Congratulations to Dr. Barış Yıldız, Asst. Professor of Industrial Engineering, who is the recipient of the 2018 SOLA (Informs – Section on Location Analysis) Dissertation Award.

The Intelligent Future, discussing the future that awaits us, including various sessions on the Future of Cloud Computing, Human Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Rise of Artificial Emotional Intelligence and Digital Age in the Life Sciences.

Congratulations to Dr. Barış Yıldız, Asst. Professor of Industrial Engineering, who is the recipient of the 2018 SOLA (Informs – Section on Location Analysis) Dissertation Award.

Optical computing is a computational technology that uses light instead of electricity to perform calculations. After inventing a powerful analog computing platform with optical fibers, Dr. Uğur Teğin, a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University, has enhanced it and developed a programmable optical neural network architecture with his collaborators at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Their study revealed that scalable nonlinear optical computing in optical fibers can be programmed to perform better for various machine learning tasks and to realize all-optical computing. They published their discovery in SPIE’s Advanced Photonics journal.

A technical article written by Prof. Çağatay Başdoğan, which was published by IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications in 2004, received the Test of Time (ToT) Award. The award was given to one paper only in each year and the paper was selected from a large pool of papers published between 2004 and 2013, inclusively. Wholehearted congratulations to Prof. Çağatay Başdoğan, for his outstanding achievement, and best wishes for his continued success.

With their interdisciplinary work ‘Multi-modal Wearable System Development for Vital Sign Monitoring’, Asst. Prof. Remziye Semerci from the School of Nursing and Asst. Prof. Beren Semiz from the College of Engineering received the ‘Innovative Nurse of the Year’ Award by DoktorClub.

Sinem Coleri has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS)

Assoc.Prof. Didem Unat, the leader of the ParCore Lab, has been awarded a total of 200,000 Euros through the Inno4Scale grant, in collaboration with their Norwegian partner, Simula Research Laboratory.

Assoc. Prof. Ertuğrul Başar from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering was elected as a TÜBA Associate Member.