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Associate Professor Can Alkan is leading an international consortium as the coordinator of the project “BioPIM – Processing-in-memory architectures and programming libraries for bioinformatics algorithms” of the Horizon Europe call “European Innovation Council Pathfinder Open”. Together with partners from Switzerland, France, and Israel, Dr. Alkan will focus on co-designing algorithms and data structures commonly used […]

Assoc. Prof.Can Alkan will serve as the Program Committee Chair of the 21st IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB) to be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). The conference will convene in Lyon, France on May 30, 2022. More information about the workshop can be […]

Şahin Utar, CS Graduate, joined FYK Teknoloji as co-CTO together with Yalcin Tarkan. He has been in software industry since 1990s. Before that he worked in Acıbadem Sigorta, Intel, Borland, and Koalay.com.

Prof. Cevdet Aykanat’s project on a communication models for scalable parallel programming received TÜBİTAK 1001 support (September 2021). High Performance Computing is pivotal for the success of several recent and high impact machine learning, data science and scientific computing applications. The workload encountered in such parallel applications incurs sparse and irregular communication patterns. So communication […]

Dr. Ercüment Çiçek  is one of the program chairs of the 8th International Workshop on ​Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri’21). The workshop will be held on 22 Sept, 2021. More information about the workshop can be found on the related website: GenoPri’21.

A team of Bilkent Computer Engineering students,  Orhan Uysal, Muhammed ikbal Yıldırım,  Oğuzhan Özçelik, will participate in ICPC World Finals. The World Finals will be held in Moscow on October 1-6, 2021. The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Teams of three, representing their university, work to solve the […]

HIBIT 2021 (14th The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics) will be organized as a virtual event by Bilkent University. Dr. Ercument Cicek will chair the event. The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics  is in its fourteenth year. It aims to bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners from medical, biological, and information […]

Prof. Uğur Doğrusöz’s project on “Effective Analysis of Big Data Through Graph Visualization with A Unified Complexity Management Framework” received support form TÜBİTAK 1001 program. Visualizing big data with graphs is an extremely valuable method for effective analysis of relational data as it makes analysis easier for human beings, bringing out broad relationships, uncovering patterns […]

Computer Engineering Department Graduation Ceremony was held on June 21, 2021, at 11:00am in Bilkent Odeon. Our 2021 graduates received their diplomas. Congratulations to all of them. The ceremony can be watched at the following youtube address:

Bilkent AI Summer School is organized by Computer Engineering Department for high school students. The students get opportunity to learn about computer engineering, basic programming, and contemporary artificial intelligence  and machine learning topics. Besides lectures, there are labs that enable the students to apply what they learn. At the end of the education, students are […]