Dr. Uğur Güdükbay received a TÜBİTAK 1001 grant
Dr. Fazlı Can’s project got accepted by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program
Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioğlu received a TÜBİTAK 1001 grant
Dr. Ercüment Çiçek received the Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Award
Prof. Özcan Öztürk’s project with Huawei received TÜBİTAK 1505 funding
Dr. Eray Tüzün elected to be a member of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN)
Dr. Özgür S. Öğüz joined our department in Spring 2022
Dr. Shervin Rahimzadeh Arashloo’s project got accepted by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program
Dr. Eray Tüzün received a TÜBİTAK 3501 grant
CS senior design project Flavorsion, supervised by CS faculty member Dr. Eray Tüzün, received the third prize in Elevator Pitch category in 15th Ankara Startup Summit.
Associate Professor Can Alkan received a Horizon Europe project grant from the European Commission.
Assoc. Prof. Can Alkan will serve as the Program Committee Chair of the 21st IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB).
CS graduate Şahin Utar named as co-CTO in FYK Teknoloji. Before that he worked in Acıbadem Sigorta, Intel, Borland, and Koalay.com.
Computer Engineering Department orientation meeting for new undergraduate students will be held on September 21, 2021, at 13:00.
Graduate application system is ready for applications to MS and PhD programs in CS. Applications will be received until Nov 1 , 2021.
Prof. Cevdet Aykanat’s project on communication models for scalable parallel programming received TÜBİTAK 1001 support.
Dr. Ercüment Çiçek will co-chair the 8th International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri’21).
Computer Science and Engineering Seminars for Prospective University Students (over Zoom) – August 2021
Bilkent Computer Engineering students advanced to ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) World Finals to be held in Moscow on Oct 1-6, 2021.
HIBIT 2021 Symposium will be organized by Bilkent University. Dr. Ercument Çiçek will chair the event.
Prof. Doğrusöz’s project on “effective analysis of big data through graph visualization” received TÜBİTAK support.
Graduation Ceremony for Computer Engineering Class of 2021 was held on June 21, 2021 in Bilkent Odeon. Our 2021 graduates received their diplomas.
AI Summer School for high school students took place on July 27-29, 2021. Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioğlu gave the lectures.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Dündar’s project on multi-modal image inpainting received TÜBİTAK 3501 support.
Dr. Aksoy and Dr. Dibeklioglu gave one day course on AI and machine learning to highschool students.
CS Student won the first prize in OBSS Code Master 2021 Competition
CS Fair 2021 took place on May 7, 2021 over Zoom platform.
Lori Russell Dağ received 2021 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award
Can Alkan promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
Mobile gaming company, co-founded by our graduate, received $60 million investment.
CS Graduate’s book on Founding Startups available in Amazon
Selim Aksoy promoted to the rank of Full Professor
Graduate School Open House took take place on March 27, 2021 through Zoom.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Dündar received EC H2020 MSCA IF grant.
Alumni Donations Fund Scholarships for Computer Engineering Students
CS mentorship program admitted 72 new junior students into the program.
Dr. David Davenport commemorated on Monday, March 1, 2021.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Eray Tüzün elected for the Editorial Board of Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Alkan received support for his project on rapid diagnostic kit for sepsis.
Bilkent CS teams in top 10 in Online Programming Contest
Bilkent University CS team grabbed 2nd place in STM CTF competition
Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Alkan elected for the Editorial Board of Oxford Bioinformatics
AI based automatic interview platform established by two engineering graduates
Asst. Prof. Dr. Eray Tüzün’s project on automatic detection of improper practices in software development process received TÜBİTAK support.
Dr. Ayşegül Dündar, doing research on artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision, joined our department as assistant professor in September 2020.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercüment Çiçek has been awarded Aziz Sancar Incentive Award by the Health Institutes of Turkey (TÜSEB).
Prof. Uğur Doğrusöz’s project on graph-based modeling of financial transactions received TÜBİTAK support.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercüment Çiçek received IEEE Turkey Section 2019 Research Incentive Award.
Our M.S. student Yusuf Sait Canbaz won the 1st Place Reward in TigerGragh 2020 Graphathon with his software called Davraz.
Our undergraduate student Merve Kılıçarslan successfully participated in Google Summer Code program under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Uğur Doğrusöz.
Dr. Çiçek’s and Dr. Ayday’s Project on Privacy Preserving Genomic Data Sharing received 1.2 Million USD support from NIH
2020 Bilim Akademisi (The Science Academy) Artificial Learning Summer School, co-organized by our faculty members Selim Aksoy, Ercüment Çiçek and Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, took place on 29-30 June – 1 July 2020 in Bilkent University.
AI summer school for high school students, organized by Bilkent Computer Engineering Department took place on July 6-10, 2020.
Computer Engineering graduate Murat Ikinci became CEO of Roketsan.
Prof. Fazlı Can’s project on dynamically classifying text data streams on-the-fly received TÜBITAK support.
Prof. Dr. Altay Güvenir received 2020 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award
Prof. Öztürk’s project on processor design for graph applications received TÜBITAK support.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercüment Çiçek received BAGEP 2020 Young Scientist Award
CS Student E. Bahadır Tülüce is the winner of 2020 OBSS Code Master Programming Contest
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercument Cicek received IEEE Turkey Section 2019 Research Incentive Award
The Artificial Intelligence and Law Project, a TÜBİTAK-funded initiative led by Bilkent faculty members, including Prof. Dr. Varol Akman from Computer Engineering Department, held the kick-off Workshop on February 26 2020.
Global Game Jam was held at Bilkent Cyberpark between January 31, 2020 and Feb 2, 2020.
Our Faculty members Dr. Selim Aksoy and Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioğlu educated high schoolers in TED Ankara College on January 10, 2020.
Two faculty members from our department, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Aksoy and Asst. Prof. Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, gave a 1 day course on Artificial Intelligence in Ankara Science High School on December 25, 2019.
The proceedings of the eNTERFACE’19 Workshop, organized by Assist. Prof. Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioglu, is available online.
The Neverwhere team, consisting of Computer Engineering Department students (Bartu Atabek, Utku Görkem Ertürk, Merve Sağyatanlar and Deniz Yüksel) and supervised by CS Faculty member Dr. Eray Tüzün, received the First Prize in Elevator Pitch category in Ankara Startup Summit on December 13 2019.
Bilkent–TÜSİAD ISF held “Blockchain in Business” Conference on December 5, 2019 in Istanbul.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ercument Cicek received 2019 SFARI Grant.
The paper “Investigating the Validity of Ground Truth in Code Reviewer Recommendation Studies” written by CS department faculty and students (Eray Tüzün & H. Altay Güvenir: CS Faculty, Emre Doğan: CS M.S. student, Ayberk Tecimer: CS B.S. student), received Best Emerging Results and Vision Paper Award in 13th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2019).
Team Unagi (members: Muhammed İkbal Kazar, Orhan Uysal and Oğuzhan Özçelik) ranked 6th among 100 teams in ICPC SEERC 2019 programming contest in Romania. They ranked 1st among the teams participating from Turkey.
Our Students Perman Atayev and Ziya Erkoç, mentored by Prof. Uğur Doğrusöz, were accepted to and successfully finished Google Summer of Code 2019.
CS master’s student Alperen Çetin took first place in QNB Finansbank KBOYO19 Competition.
1996 CS Graduate Ali Serdar Yakup is leading Information Technology branch of Turkish Airlines.
eNTERFACE’19 is hosted by the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University from July 8th to August 2nd 2019.
Prof. Dr. Özcan Öztürk received 2019 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award.
The startup company founded by our graduates Ali Çağatay Kuru, Barış Kaya and Burak Kantarcı developed a system that can detect bumps and dips in roads.
CS Students win Mobile Application Marathon.
CS graduates Özgür Taşkın ve Ferhat Aydoğan received 2018 Apple Design Award.
Bilkent Hub of the Google #Hash Code Programming Competition attracted a lot of attention. 80 students participated in the competition held on March 1, 2018, at Bilkent Hub.
Öğrencilerimizden Ahmet Çandıroğlu ve Kaan Sancak, biyolojik yolak analiz ve görselleştirme konusundaki projeleri Google tarafından, Prof. Dr. Uğur Doğrusöz’ün mentorluğunda destek aldı.
CS Graduate Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Ph.D. student Mohammed Alser (advised by Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Alkan) received IEEE Turkey Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
Our students Berker Şenol, Figali Taho, Gökhan Şimsek and Mert Aytöre won the algorithmic challenge of Credit Suisse at Lauzhack 2017
CS Department had a successful ABET visit.
Lisansüstü öğrencilerimizden İstemi Bahçeci ve Metin Can Siper’in, biyolojik yolak analiz ve görselleştirme konusundaki projeleri Google tarafından, Prof. Dr. Uğur Doğrusöz’ün mentorluğunda destek aldı.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Aksoy Received Mustafa Parlar Award.
Doç. Dr. Selim AKSOY Bilim Akademisi tarafından verilen BAGEP ödülü aldı
Doç. Dr. Selim AKSOY ve Doç. Dr. Çiğdem GÜNDÜZ DEMİR TÜBA’nın 2015 yılı ‘Üstün Başarılı Genç Bilim İnsanı Ödülü’nü (GEBİP) kazandı.
T2 Big Data Hackathlon Kod Yarışması birinci ve ikincisi lisans öğrencilerimiz Alim Şükrücan Gökkaya ve Ahmet Enis Erdoğan
Dr. Öznur Taştan received 2014 BAGEP Award.
Bilkent Team Ranks 1st in Turkey in IEEExtreme 7.0 Programming Competition
Mezunlarımızdan Oğuz Küçükseyhan 3M’in global ofisine Pazarlama Geliştirme Müdürü olarak atandı
Y. Doç. Dr. Can Alkan ve Y. Doç. Dr. Buğra Gedik BAGEP 2013 ödülü aldı
Dr. Öznur Taştan received 2013 UNESCO – L’ORÉAL National Scholarship.
IMCOM, a startup founded by our Alumni Ali Çevik and Mert Küçük, became a news in Forbes.
Prof. Dr. Özgür Ulusoy received PARLAR Science Award.
Emre Çalışkan received first prize in Visa ve MasterCard Cardsmartaward Coding competition.
BMEKS Group placed 3rd in Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 Competition.
bilJ11 group ranked 2nd in IBM Software Academy Competition 2011.
ABET accreditation received.