Ugur Dogrusoz

Associate Professor, Computer Engineering
Head, i-Vis Research Group
Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey

Tel +90 312-290-1612 (PST+10)
Fax +90 312-266-4047

STUDENTS WANTED for on-going projects (full support to be provided)

"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)."
Donald Knuth

Layout demo >>

Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology >>

i-Vis adds support for compound graphs to Cytoscape Web >>

i-Vis provides network visualization for cBio Cancer Genomics Portal of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center >>

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, 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 information visualization (e.g. biological pathway and social network visualization), bioinformatics (pathway informatics), and graph algorithms (e.g. graph layout algorithms and query algorithms for graph-based knowledgebases). I lead i-Vis Research Group; current projects include Chisio, ChiBE, VISIBIOweb, cBio Cancer Genomics Portal, Cytoscape Web, and PATIKA. >>
Professional	Co-founder and Director, BCBI (Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics), 2002-2010; Conference Chair and Program Committee Member, (Combinatorial Pattern Matching) CPM 2004; National Young Scientist Career Development Award, TÜBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), 2005-2011. >>
Teaching	Nowadays I teach Object-Oriented Software Eng., Algorithms I, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, and Algorithms II, >>
Other	Miscellenaous forms for application for summer internship and request for a reference letter and information on senior term projects can be obtained here.