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Faculty members of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering and faculty from the Department of Computer Engineering who contribute to the wider educational environment.

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering

Faculty Members

Faculty members are listed alphabetically by surname. Current administrative responsibilities and links to academic and publication profiles are provided below.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Selman BOZKIR

Academic profile Google Scholar

Information security; computer vision and computational photography; natural language processing; information retrieval; educational data mining

E-mail: selman@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 225

Prof. Dr. Pınar DUYGULU ŞAHİN

Academic profile Google Scholar

Computer vision; multimedia data mining; object, face, and action recognition; historical document analysis

E-mail: pinar@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 108
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 119

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Önder EFE

Dean, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences

Academic profile Google Scholar

Unmanned aerial vehicles; guidance, navigation, and control; intelligent mechatronics; computational intelligence

E-mail: onderefe@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 115
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 125

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Erkut ERDEM

Department ChairChair, Division of Artificial Intelligence

Academic profile Google Scholar

Computer vision; multimodal learning; generative AI; computational imaging

E-mail: erkut@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 112
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 122

Asst. Prof. Dr. Özgür ERKENT

Vice Chair

Academic profile Google Scholar

Robot vision; autonomous vehicles; object pose estimation; attentive vision; machine learning; human–robot interaction

E-mail: ozgurerkent@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: Z07/C
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 136

Prof. Dr. Nazlı İKİZLER CİNBİŞ

Vice ChairChair, Division of Data Science

Academic profile Google Scholar

Computer vision; human action and activity understanding

E-mail: nazli@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 106
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 117

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lale ÖZKAHYA

Academic profile Google Scholar

Combinatorics; graph theory and their applications

E-mail: ozkahya@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 218
Phone: (+90) 312 297 71 93, ext. 124

Faculty-wide educational contribution

Contributing Faculty from Computer Engineering

AIDE students may take designated courses offered by the Department of Computer Engineering. These faculty members contribute to the wider educational environment of the program.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Harun ARTUNER

Academic profile

Digital signal processing; speech recognition; embedded systems; artificial intelligence; computer forensics

E-mail: artuner@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 104
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 115

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat AYDOS

Academic profile

Cryptography; information and network security; wireless network security and privacy; public-key cryptosystems

E-mail: maydos@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 207
Phone: (+90) 312 297 71 93, ext. 121

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Burak CAN

Academic profile

Computer vision; information security; distributed systems

E-mail: abc@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 205
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 131

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk ÇELİKCAN

Academic profile

Computer graphics and animation; 3D vision and stereoscopy; virtual reality; human motion analysis; serious games

E-mail: celikcan@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 204
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 130

Prof. Dr. İlyas ÇİÇEKLİ

Academic profile

Natural language processing; machine translation; computational linguistics; data mining; artificial intelligence

E-mail: ilyas@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 109
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 113

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Engin DEMİR

Academic profile

Spatial and temporal network databases; social network analysis; data mining; machine learning; information retrieval; algorithms

E-mail: engindemir@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 203
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 129

Asst. Prof. Dr. Selma DİLEK

Academic profile

Digital logic design; embedded systems; high-performance computing; electronic design automation; optimization; Internet of Things

E-mail: selma@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 135
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Prof. Dr. Tunca DOĞAN

Academic profile

Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; data science; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence

E-mail: tuncadogan@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 210
Phone: (+90) 312 297 71 93, ext. 115

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuğba ERDOĞAN

Academic profile

Software engineering; software process management; process mining; process improvement; healthcare process analysis

E-mail: tugba@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 226
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burkay GENÇ

Academic profile

Data analysis; data mining; computational geometry; game technologies

E-mail: bgenc@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 122
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 140

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru GÖKALP AYDIN

Academic profile

Software engineering; software quality and project management; information systems; business process management; digital transformation

E-mail: ebrugokalp@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 219
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 134

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kayhan Mustafa İMRE

Academic profile

Parallel and distributed systems; high-performance computing; simulation; computer architecture

E-mail: ki@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 107
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 118

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aydın KAYA

Academic profile

Medical image analysis; deep learning; machine learning; computer vision

E-mail: aydinkaya@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: Z07/A
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 138

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Seydi KEÇELİ

Academic profile

Computer vision; deep learning; machine learning; game technologies

E-mail: aliseydi@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: Z07/B
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 137

Prof. Dr. Ayça KOLUKISA

Academic profile

Software engineering; software quality and metrics; process maturity and analytics; health information systems

E-mail: atarhan@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 206
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 132

Asst. Prof. Dr. Gülden OLGUN

Academic profile

Bioinformatics; machine learning; data science; data mining; computational biology

E-mail: guldenolgun@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 102
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 114

Prof. Dr. Suat ÖZDEMİR

Academic profile

Internet of Things; IoT data analysis; wireless sensor networks; network security; data mining

E-mail: ozdemir@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 110
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 120

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adnan ÖZSOY

Academic profile

Parallel programming; high-performance computing; GPGPUs; big data; distributed systems; application parallelism

E-mail: adnan.ozsoy@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 114
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 124

Prof. Dr. Ebru SEZER

Academic profile

Semantic information retrieval systems

E-mail: ebru@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 105
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 116

Prof. Dr. Sevil ŞEN

Academic profile

Network and systems security; wireless networks; mobile systems; machine learning; evolutionary computation

E-mail: ssen@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 113
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 123

Prof. Dr. Süleyman TOSUN

Academic profile

Computer architecture; electronic design automation; networks-on-chip; multiprocessors; scheduling

E-mail: stosun@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 108
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 119

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hacer YALIM KELEŞ

Academic profile

Computer vision; machine learning; pattern recognition; deep generative networks; sign language recognition

E-mail: hacerkeles@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 217
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 133

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cemil ZALLUHOĞLU

Academic profile

Computer vision; deep learning; crowd analysis; human activity recognition

E-mail: cemil@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 201
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00, ext. 127

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering

Research Assistants

Research assistants are listed alphabetically by surname.

Res. Assist. Sümeyye Meryem TAŞYÜREK

Machine learning; deep learning; computer vision

E-mail: meryemtasyurek@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 118
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Res. Assist. Orhan DEMİRCİ

Computer vision; deep learning; Internet of Things

E-mail: orhandemirci@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 118
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Res. Assist. İsmail Furkan ATASOY

Natural language processing; large language models; agentic AI

E-mail: ismailfurkanatasoy@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: Z06
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Res. Assist. Fatih PEHLİVAN

Software engineering; large language models; AI-assisted code analysis

Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Res. Assist. Ali Baran TAŞDEMİR

Machine learning; graph and geometric learning; data science

E-mail: abtasdemir@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 222
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Res. Assist. Açelya DALGIÇ

Data science; bioinformatics

E-mail: acelyadalgic@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: Z03
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00

Fatih Pehlivan’s individual e-mail address, room number, and official departmental portrait were not published in the accessible source pages; the department’s main telephone number is shown.

Administrative Staff

Mustafa ÇAKIR

E-mail: sekreterlik@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 101
Phone: (+90) 312 297 75 00