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Bolaji Yusuf

Bolaji Yusuf is a PhD student working with Professors Murat Saraclar and Jan Cernocky. He currently dabbles in automatic speech recognition, spoken term detection and unsupervised learning.

Erhan Davarcı

Erhan Davarcı (B.Sc. 2012, M.Sc 2016) is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Emin Anarım. He is currently studying "User Behaviour, Authentication and Malware Analysis on Smart Devices" in his PhD Thesis. His current research interests include machine learning, signal processing, user biometrics, sensor data on smart devices.

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Derya Erhan

Derya Erhan received her B.Sc. degree from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002. She received her M.Sc. degree from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 2007. From 2003 to 2008, she worked as a senior telecom specialist in Turk Telekom network operations department and Information Security department in Turkey. From 2008 to 2020, she worked at Boğaziçi University Information Technology Department as a network administrator, assistant manager, and manager. Working as senior information security expert in Turk Eximbank.  Research interest includes anomaly detection, intrusion detection, and network-based detection methods.

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Demet Yüksel Dal

Demet Yüksel Dal graduated from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2009. She got her M.Sc. degree from Boğaziçi University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2013. She is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Burak Acar with her thesis titled " Multimodal Brain Connectome Analysis With Application to Alzhemir Disease". Her current research interests include medical image processing, brain networks, graph analysis, machine learning and statistical methods.

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Bahri Maraş

Bahri MARAŞ is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Ayşın Ertüzün and Prof. Nafiz Arıca as co-advisor for PhD Thesis. (Dean of Eng. and Natural Sciences Faculty at Bahçeşehir University). He received his B.Sc. from Turkish Naval Academy at 2005, and earned his M.Sc. from University of Southern California at 2012. His thesis topic is “Visual Object Tracking On Videos from Low Altitude Flying UAV's Under Occlusion”. He is also taking role as a PhD candidate scholar in a TÜBİTAK 1001 ARDEP Project called “Multi-Object Detection and Tracking under UAV videos” which is directed by Prof. Nafiz ARICA and by Prof.Ayşın ERTÜZÜN. His current research interests include computer vision, machine learning, Bayesian signal processing, adaptive signal processing, visual object tracking, visual object detection and tracking at UAV videos under occlusion problem and optical flow estimation at real time videos.

Alican Gök

Alican Gök (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. 2014) is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Murat Saraclar. His current research interests include machine learning, spoken term detection, automatic speech recognition and end-to-end systems.

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Güneş Bayır
Güneş Bayır is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Burak Acar. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is a member of BraiNet group under VAVLab, and is working on AD (Alzheimer's Disease) continuum. His current research interests include machine learning, graph processing, brain networks, and graph neural networks.
Gözde Çetinkaya
Gözde Çetinkaya (M.Sc. 2016) is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Murat Saraclar. Her current research interests include automatic speech recognition, keyword search and language modelling. She also has been working as a speech recognition technologist at Recognosco, Vienna, Austria.
Göktekin Durusoy
Göktekin Durusoy graduated from Uludağ University, Department of Electronics Engineering in 2010. He got his M.Sc. degree from New York University in Electrical Engineering in 2013. He is pursuing his education as a Ph.D. candidate under the supervisor of Burak Acar with his thesis titled "Multi-Modal Brain Tensor Decomposition". He worked as a research assistant at Namık Kemal University between the years of 2013-2017 and is working as a researcher at DPT/TAM project. His research interests include tensor decomposition, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and analysis towards computer-aided diagnosis.
 
Gurur Gamgam
Gurur Gamgam (BS 2017, MsC 2019) is a PhD student working with Prof. Burak Acar on BRAINet project. His current research interests are brain networks and machine learning on graphs.
Ramin Fadaei Fouladi

Ramin Fouladi received the B.Sc. degree from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2004, and the M.Sc. degree from Bogazici University in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D degree with Prof. Emin Anarim. He took part in different projects during his master's degree such as ADAX (Attacks Detection And Countermeasures Simulation) and CANKURT (remote vital sensing device used to find people trapped in debris after an earthquake). His current research interests include anomaly detection, intrusion detection, network-based detection, signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognition.