News

On 30th October 2020, STM organized a 24-hour long capture-the-flag (CTF) competition in which 161 teams from all over Turkey took place. Bilkent University’s hacking society “Exploit Studio” grabbed 2nd place in the competition. The team consisted of Yaman Yağız Taşbağ (CS), Mustafa Kemal Can (BAU-CS), Muhammad Saboor (CS), and Arslan Masood (IU-MATHS). In cybersecurity field, CTF competitions involve participants solving security related problems and exploiting vulnerable systems. These problems belong to different categories such as cryptography, web application hacking, mobile application hacking, forensics, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. The members of Exploit studio meet regularly and share their knowledge about different information security topics.

Other news: link

Bilnews article

Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Alkan (Computer Engineering) became an Associate Editor for the prestigious Oxford Bioinformatics Journal. More information about the journal can be found at: Bioinformatics.

Assistant Professor Dr. Eray Tüzün’s project on automatic detection of improper practices in software development process received TÜBİTAK support as part TÜBİTAK 1505 program.

Dr. Dündar received her B.S. degree from Boğaziçi University in 2011 and her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2016. Her Ph.D. thesis is on machine learning with a title “Learning from Minimally Labeled Data with Accelerated Convolutional Neural Networks”. Between 2016 and 2020, she worked at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA. In NVIDIA, she worked on deep learning and computer vision. Dr. Dündar’s research fields and interests are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and software/hardware support for machine learning.