Academic Staff

Yusuf Murat Erten received his BS degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Birmingham in England, and then completed his master's degree in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the USA and his doctorate in Computer Engineering at METU. He worked at companies such as Ortaş Telecommunications, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, İnnova. He also worked METU Informatics Institute, Atılım University, TOBB ETU Computer Engineering, IYTE Computer Engineering and Bakırçay University Computer Engineering Departments as a faculty member. Murat Erten also served as the General Manager of Teknopark İzmir during the years he worked at IZTECH. He has been working as a faculty member at Izmir University of Economics Computer Engineering Department since 2021. He continues his research on computer networks, network security, sensor networks.

Büşra Temuçin received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 2013 from Ege University, her M.Sc. degree in Information Technologies in 2020 from Ege University, International Computer Institute. In 2022, she began her Ph.D. education in Izmir University of Economics, Computer Engineering Dept. She has been working as a research assistant in the same department since May 2022. Her research interests covers cellular automata and procedural content generation in games.

Turhan Tunali earned a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and MSc Degree in Applied Statistics from Ege University, both in Turkey. He then earned a DSc Degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St.Louis, USA in 1985. After his doctorate study, he joined Computer Engineering Department of Ege University as an assistant professor where he became an associate professor in 1988. During the period of 1992–1994, he worked in Department of Computer Technology of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore as a Visiting Senior Fellow. He then joined International Computer Institute of Ege University as a Professor where he was the director from 2001 to 2009. In the period of 2000–2001 he worked in Department of Computer Science of Loyola University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor. He is currently working as a Professor at Department of Computer Engineering of Izmir University of Economics. His current research interests include adaptive video streaming and Internet performance measurements.

Builds bridges among academia, government R&D labs, industrial research, and commercial enterprises. Successful track record in academia, in government R&D, as well as in industry. Principal investigator for multimillion dollar research grants. Unique combination of business and technology expertise in startups, mid-size software companies, as well as in large IT organizations launching complex enterprise products. Experience working with geographically distributed multidisciplinary teams from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Çağkan Uludağlı received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from İzmir Institute of Technology at 2012 and his MSc degree in Game Technologies from Middle East Technical University at 2017. He worked as a software developer at METU Computer Center for over three years during his MSc education. He's been studying at Computer Engineering Doctorate Program at our university since July 2017 and he's been working as a research assistant at the same department since April 2018. His research interests cover the topics such as player-computer interaction, artificial intelligence for games, psychology in game design and virtual/augmented/mixed reality.

Upon graduation from Bornova Anatolian High School in 2009, Çınar Gedizlioğlu studied computer science in Bilkent University in Ankara, where he received his B.Sc. degree in 2013. He then enrolled in the Music Technology graduate program in New York University, graduating in 2015 and receiving his M.M. degree. After working as an instructor at Izmir University of Economics for 2 years, teaching “Masterpieces in Music History”, he enrolled in the Ph.D. program for computer engineering in the same university, working on the field of music information retrieval (MIR). He's simultaneously working as a research assistant in the same department since 2020.

Alper Demir has received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, in 2014, 2016 and 2019, respectively. During his graduate years, he have worked as a Teaching Assistant in the same department and studied Reinforcement Learning, and Fully and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. Alper Demir, has been a member of the Department of Computer Engineering in Izmir University of Economy since 2020. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning and Data Analysis.

Ilker Korkmaz received the BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and MSc. degree in Computer Science from Ege University. He received the PhD degree in Information Technologies from International Computer Institute at Ege University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Dalkilic. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Izmir University of Economics. His research interests include computer networks and network security. His recent focus is on secure aggregation protocols in wireless sensor networks. In addition, he also conducts research in the field of machine learning.

Kaya Oğuz received his B.Sc. degree in Software Engineering in 2007 from Izmir University of Economics (IUE), his M.Sc. degree in Computer Games Technology in 2009 from University of Abertay Dundee with distinction, and his Ph.D. in Information Technologies in 2016, from Ege University, International Computer Institute (ICI). He has been employed as a teaching assistant between 2009-2011 at IUE, as a lecturer at ICI between 2011-2017. He has been appointed as assistant professor at IUE in February 2017. He is the head of department since 2019. His research interest covers game AI, machine learning, image processing, medical imaging and fMRI.