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The paper “Towards Better Code Reviews: Using Mutation Testing to Improve Reviewer Attention” written by Computer Engineering alumni Ziya Mukhtarov , Mannan Abdul , Mokhlaroyim Raupova, Javid Baghirov, Osama Tanveer, along with faculty members Haluk Altunel and Eray Tüzün, has won the best paper award at the 17th  International Conference on Software and System Process.

Hack to the Future event organized by Vakıfbank was held on Friday, April 28, at Vakıfbank’s Headquarters in Istanbul. From social responsibility and sustainability to digital banking user experience and design, from new-generation customer communication to innovative products and services, many teams participated in the competition. Only 12 teams qualified for the finals. 5 awards […]

Eight Bilkent faculty members have received the Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) awards for 2023. The awards are given by the Science Academy Association (Bilim Akademisi Derneği), established in 2011 “to promote, practice and uphold the principles of scientific merit, freedom and integrity.” The objective of the BAGEP program is to recognize highly promising young scientists […]

On December 10, the 16th Ankara Startup Summit took place at Ankara Ticaret Odası, attracting more than 500 attendees. The event, organized by the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Society in partnership with Bilkent Cyberpark, brought founders of aspiring startups together with representatives of the entrepreneurial world. The summit culminated in a competition among 20 startups that […]

Bilkent faculty members are among the scientists to have received this year’s Outstanding Young Scientist Awards from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). The Bilkent awardees are: Asst. Prof. Yunus Emre Türkmen (Chemistry) and Asst. Prof. Hamdi Dibeklioğlu (Computer Engineering). TÜBA introduced the Program to Award Young Scientists (GEBİP) in 2001 to recognize and support […]

As Bilkent Blockchain Club, they participated in the Digital Turkey Blockchain Hackathon-Digiathon competition organized by the Presidency of Digital Transformation Office, which was held between 12th to 13th November. Among 24 teams that passed the preliminary round, their team secured the third place with their project called “MikroVeri,” consisting of team members Utku Koca, Ege […]

Dr. Uğur Güdükbay’s project titled “Personality analysis through human animation with deep learning-based methods and transferring learned personality traits to human animation” has got accepted for funding by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program. Dr. Fazlı Can’s project titled “Supervised and semi-supervised classification of concept drifting multi-label data streams using novel neural network approaches” has got accepted […]

Department of Computer Engineering Faculty Member Dr. Ercüment Çiçek is one of the recipients of the 2022 Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Award.

Prof. Özcan Öztürk’s collaboration with Huawei received TÜBİTAK 1505 funding. The project titled “Using Machine Learning Methods to Select GCC Compiler Flags To Optimize Runtime will be funded during 2022-2024.

Asst. Prof. Eray Tüzün of the Department of Computer Engineering was elected to be a member of The International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN). The board has currently 56 members from around the world, with Dr. Tüzün being the only one from Turkey. The International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN) is a global community of […]