Academic Staff of Computer Engineering   Varol Akman Professor Ph.D., Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985. Artificial intelligence, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, pragmatics, the Internet and society.   Selim Aksoy Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2001. Computer vision, statistical and structural pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining.   Erol Arkun Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, 1971. Data and file structures, database systems, microcomputing, programming languages.   Cevdet Aykanat Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, 1988. Parallel computing, algorithms, high performance information retrieval, parallel and distributed web crawling, parallel databases, grid computing.   Mehmet Baray Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer engineering education.   Fazli Can Visiting Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1985. Information Retrieval, Access Methods, Stylometry.   Tolga Çapin Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1998. Visual communications, Mobile graphics platforms, Rendering and visualization, Network graphics.   Cengiz Çelik Instructor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland at Collage Park, 2006. Relational database management systems, Multimedia Databases.   Ilyas Çiçekli Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, Syracuse University, 1991. Logic programming, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, natural language processing.   David Davenport Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham, 1980. Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, information retrieval, computer and education, Internet-related issues.   Tugrul Dayar Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 1994. Performance modeling and analysis, scientific computing and computer networks.   Ugur Dogrusöz Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1995. Graph visualization, bioinformatics, combinatorial algorithms, and graph theory.   Pinar Duygulu Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2003. Multimedia data mining, information retrieval, computer vision, statistical machine learning, visual perception.   Ugur Güdükbay Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University, 1994. Computer graphics, physically-based modeling and animation, deformable models, multimedia databases, computational geometry.   Çigdem Gündüz Demir Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005. Computational biology, machine learning, pattern recognition for medical application and cancer research, data mining and artificial intelligence.   H. Altay Güvenir Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1987. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, problem solving strategies, intelligent tutoring systems.   Ismail Ipek Instructor Ed.D., Education, University of Pittsburgh, 1995. Computer languages and applications.   Hazim Murat Karamüftüoglu Assistant Professor Ph.D., Information Science, City University, London, 1998. Design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, computer semiotics, computer mediated communication, philosophical aspects of information systems.   Ibrahim Körpeoglu Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2000. Computer networks, mobile and wireless networks, computer systems.   Ayse Semra Mumcu Instructor M.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1990. Computer architecture, hardware engineering.   Hilmi Öncül Instructor M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, 1971. Computers and information processing.   Bülent Özgüç Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1978. Computer graphics, user interface design.   Özlem Özgü Instructor M.S., Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, 1990. Computer and information processing.   Turgay Saracoglu Instructor B.S., Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1979. Computer and information processing.   Uluç Saranli Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science: Intelligent Syetems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002, Formal methods for robot programming, analysis and control of legged locomotion, dynamically dexterous robot behaviors, applications of formal logic and type theory to robot motion planning, physically realistic simulation.   William Sawyer Instructor M.S., Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, 1988. Digital design, CAD tools, computer architecture.   Markus Schaal Instructor Ph.D., Distributed Information Systems, Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School, 2004. Knowledge Sharing, Extraction and Processing, Portal-Based Communities-Participation Mechanisms and Motivation.   Ali Aydin Selçuk Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, 2001. Cryptography, network security, data compression.   Süleyman Cenk Sahinalp Visiting Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland at Collage Park, 1997.   Siu Hong Savio Tse Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 1997. Distributed and approximate algorithms, compact routing, mobile and Internet computing.   Özgür Ulusoy Professor Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. Data management for mobile systems, Web query languages and data models, multimedia database systems, real-time and active database systems.   Asli Üstüner Instructor M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA, 1993. B.S. Mechanical Engineering, METU, 1991. CAD Design, Computer Tools.     | Bilkent University Main Page |   Last regenerated automatically on July 4, 2008 by OAC - Online Academic Catalog Software.