Personal [CV] I joined Bilkent in the fall of 1998, before which I worked for Tom Sawyer Software for three years.
M.S., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1991, 1995, resp., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
B.S. in Computer Engineering, 1989, Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara, Turkey. >>
Research
Publications 		My interests fall into the areas of big data visualization and analytics (esp. biological pathways and social networks), bioinformatics (pathway informatics), graph algorithms (esp. graph layout algorithms and query algorithms for graph databases) and machine learning (detecting fraud/anomaly in telecom and financial networks). I lead the i-Vis Research Lab; projects conducted or participated in include Newt, PathwayMapper, cBio Cancer Genomics Portal, Cytoscape.js, ChiBE, Chisio, and PATIKA. >>
Professional Editor, SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation), 2022-present & 2016-2019; Co-founder and Director, BCBI (Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics), 2002-2010; National Young Scientist Career Development Award, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), 2005-2011; Conference Chair and Program Committee Member, (Combinatorial Pattern Matching) CPM 2004. >>
Teaching Nowadays I teach Algorithms & Programming I, Fundamentals of Algorithms II and Algorithms I. >>
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Favorite Quotes
"If you ask me what makes me most happy, number one would be somebody saying (I learned something from you). Number two would be somebody saying (I used your software)."  D. KNUTH

"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better."  E.W. DIJKSTRA

"My life got better when I realized I didn't have to be nice. Nice got me used, stressed out and disrespected. I'm not nice. I'm a good person. There's a difference. You don't have to be nice to be a good person. Being good means being honest, setting boundaries, taking care of yourself without compromising your values. Being nice may give you temporary approval, but it rarely earns you respect or helps you build genuine connections. Honor your truth. You won't regret it."  SOME GRANDPA/MA
"Most people want 'nice' people in their lives, not 'good' ones unfortunately."  UD

"Societies that want to live comfortably without working, getting tired, or producing; They are doomed to lose first their dignity, then their freedom, and then their independence and future."  M.K. ATATURK