The Team

The executive of the DS LAB: Assist. Prof. Dr. Fulya Gökalp Yavuz, 

Academic Partner: Prof. Mark Daniel Ward,

Researchers:

Res. Assist. Orçun Oltulu, 

Res. Assist. Burcu Koca.

Mert Kaşif Ceylan

The Team, 2021

MenteeMentor

Abdullah Tunca Akçaoğlu
Department: Statistics
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Prof. Barış Sürücü
Department: Statistics
Research Topic working with Tunca: Sports Statistics


Arif Yiğit ipekoğlu
Department: Civil Engineering
Research Interest: Retrevial of Soil Moisture
Dr. Mehdi Afshar,
Department: Civil Engineering
Research Topics:


Aylin Celik
Department: Statistics
Research Interest: Bayesian Network
Dr. Barbaros Yet
Department:
Cognitive Sciences
Research Topics:


Aytöre Arıkan
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Computational Chemistry
Asst. Prof. Luca Bioncofiore
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic working with Aytöre: Molecular dynamics simulation


Meryem Çiftçi
Department: Physics

Research Interest: Turkey’s Moral Changes

Dr. Hilal Arslan
Department:
Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies Department of
Social Research Methods and ODTÜ, Sociology, Lecturer.
Research Topic: Gender Equality in Data


Pınar Bulut
Department: Industrial Engineering
Research Interest: Clustering ve IE’nin kesiştiği alanlar

Assoc. Prof. Cem İyigün
Department: Industrial
Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU).
Research interests: Data analysis, data mining
time series forecasting, bioinformatics, climatology and electricity load
forecasting.

Research Topic working with Onur: Machine Learning Algorithms


Selin Okumuş
Department: Psychology
Study abroad-Erasmus
Tilburg University, Netherlands, Psychology


Yakup Ferit Ayrancı 
Department:
Molecular Biology and Genetics / Chemical Engineering
Research Interest:
Bioinformatics


Furkan Aydoğan
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Interest: Machine Learning Applications in 
Manufacturing and Design
Self – Study

The Team,2020

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Abdullah Burkan Bereketoğlu
Department: Pyhsics
Research Interest: Biophysics
http://linkedin.com/in/burkanbereketoglu1

Dr. Osman Barış Malcıoğlu,
Department: Physics
Research Topic working with Burkan: Gaussian process,
regression in Physics Applications


Aisuluu Baktybekova 
Department: Statistics

Prof. Volkan Atalay,
Department: Computer Engineering
Research Topics: Machine learning applications in Bioinformatics


Ayşe Esra Erdoğan
Department: Foreign Language Education

Prof. Cem Bozşahin,
Department: Cognitive Science
Research Topic working with Esra: Integrating translation
knowledge with computational linguistics


Edibe Büşra Bahar
Department: Sociology

Dr. Hilal Arslan
Department:
Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies Department of
Social Research Methods and ODTÜ, Sociology, Lecturer.
Research Topic working with Büşra: Gender Equality in Data


Fehmi Özbayrak
Department: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering,
Geostatistics, Data Science in E&P

Dr. Fulya Gökalp Yavuz
Department: Statistics

Research Topic working with Fehmi:
Denoising and Analysis of Permanent Downhole Gauge Data


İlteber Konuralp
Department: Statistics
Research Interests: Machine Learning and AI
https://github.com/ilteberkonuralp
https://www.codeabbey.com/index/user_profile/ilteberkonuralp65

Prof. Vilda Purutçuoğlu Gazi
Department: Statistics
Research Topic working with İlteber:
Biomedical Signal Types and Electromygraphy


Kubilay Kırmızı
Department: Business Administration
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, Finance,

Information Technologies, Management Science
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubilaykirmizi/

Dr. Forrest Watson
Department: Business Administration
Research Topic working with Kubilay:
Grief and Consumption


Mehmet Müftüoğlu
Department: Pyhsics
Research Interests: 
Non-Linear Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Dr. Emre Yüce
Department: Pyhsics
Contact: eyuce@metu.edu.tr
Reserach Topic: Quantum Key Distribution

Research Topic working with Mehmet: Quantum Cryptography
Demonstration Kit


Melih Yıldız
Department: Biology
Research Interests: Genomics, Transcriptomics,
Aging, Evolution, Development,
Gene Regulation,Epistemology

Dr. Fulya Gökalp Yavuz
Department:
Statistics
Research Topic working with Melih:
Single Cell RNA-Seq Cell Type Classification


Nurşen Töre
Department: Psychology
Research Interest: Neuroscience
Self-Study


Onur Yaman
Department: Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Stochastic Modelling,
Scientific Computing,  Optimization,
Operations Research,
Applied Mathematics,Telecommunications
http://linkedin.com/in/onur-yaman-80a919125

Assoc. Prof. Cem İyigün
Department: Industrial
Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU).
Research interests: Data analysis, data mining
time series forecasting, bioinformatics, climatology and electricity load
forecasting.

Research Topic working with Onur: Machine Learning Algorithms


Umut Can Yıldız
Department: Aerospace Engineering
Self-Study