Associate Professor Can Alkan is leading an international consortium as the coordinator of the project “BioPIM – Processing-in-memory architectures and programming libraries for bioinformatics algorithms” of the Horizon Europe call “European Innovation Council Pathfinder Open”. Together with partners from Switzerland, France, and Israel, Dr. Alkan will focus on co-designing algorithms and data structures commonly used in bioinformatics together with emerging processing-in-memory hardware technologies to obtain the highest benefit in cost, energy, and time savings in genome sequence analysis. BioPIM project aims to impact all forms of genome and transcriptome studies including 1) disease-causing mutation discovery including cancer, 2) metagenomics, 3) population genetics and comparative genomics, 4) transcriptome profiling, and 5) outbreak detection and tracking including COVID-19, Ebola, and Zika.
Associate Professor Can Alkan received a Horizon Europe project grant from the European Commission.
Şahin Utar, CS Graduate, joined FYK Teknoloji as co-CTO together with Yalcin Tarkan. He has been in software industry since 1990s.
Computer Engineering Department orientation meeting for new undergraduate students will be held on September 21, 2021, at 13:00 in Mithat Çoruh amphi in B Block of Engineering Building. New students will be informed about the department, the goals of the undergraduate program, curriculum, the role of advisors, exchange opportunities, undergraduate research opportunities, summer trainings, and opportunities after graduation. Tips and suggestions for success will be conveyed as well. The seminar will be held in a face-to-face manner with covid19 precautions in place.
Graduate application system is ready for applications to MS and PhD programs in Bilkent Computer Engineering to start in Spring 2022. Please follow the following link to make an online application: