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

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

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"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



Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology... >>

Personal I joined Bilkent in the fall of 1998.
I worked for Tom Sawyer Software from 1995 to 1998.
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 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, and PATIKA. >>
Professional Co-founder and Director, BCBI (Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics); 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 I teach Object-Oriented Software Eng. and Algorithms I in the fall and Graph Theory in the spring. >>
Other Miscellenaous forms for application for summer internship and request for a reference letter and information on senior term projects can be obtained here.