I’m an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering. My research interests include computational prediction of human genomic structural variation, and characterization of segmental duplications and copy-number polymorphisms using high throughput sequencing data, and acceleration of genome analysis through hardware/software co-development. See my personal academic page for teaching and other details.

I also serve as an Associate Editor for the Bioinformatics journal, a Steering Committee Member for the RECOMB-Seq Conference, an Organization Committee Member for the HiTSeq Conference, an Editorial Board Member for the Genome Research journal, and the Organization Committee Co-Chair of the RECOMB 2023 Conference held in İstanbul.

Positions

• Associate Professor, April 2021 - present
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
• Assistant Professor, January 2012 - April 2021
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
• Acting Assistant Professor, June 2011 - January 2012
  • Department of Genome Sciences, U. Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
• Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2005 - June 2011
  • Eichler Lab, Department of Genome Sciences, U. Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
• Visiting Scholar, January 2004 - October 2005
  • School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, 2005
  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
• B. Sc., Computer Engineering and Information Science, 2000
  • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey