Category: News

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Dündar’s project on “Semantically conditioned multi-modal image inpainting” received TÜBİTAK 3501 support. Image inpainting, the task of filling missing pixels in the most realistic manner, is a difficult task requiring a high level of understanding of the scene. A successful image inpainting algorithm provides an important image editing tool that can […]

Dr. Hamdi Dibeklioglu and Dr. Selim Aksoy from CS Department gave one day lecture in AI and Machine Learning to high-school students on May 25, 2021, Tuesday. Topics covered include: what is computer science and engineering, introduction to artificial intelligence, introduction to machine learning, probabilistic classification, neural networks introduction, and computer vision applications.

CS Student Ziya Mukhtarov won the first prize in OBSS Code Master 2021 Competition. Participants show their algorithm and coding skills in the competition. The competition, organized by OBSS, took place in two stages. In the first stage, local competitions at various universities were held. The winners of the first stage competed in the second […]

CSFair 2021, Senior Project Fair of Computer Engineering Department, took place on May 7, 2021, between 12:30-5:00pm. Due to covid pandemic, CSFair was not a physical event; instead, we organized a virtual CSFair using the Zoom system. CSFair included senior design project demos and presentations, short talks, project and personal award ceremonies, and a lot […]

Lori Russell Dağ, instructor in Computer Engineering Department,  received 2021 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award. Lori joined Bilkent University in Spring 2001. Since then, she did extraordinary contributions to our department and Bilkent University in terms of teaching in many different ways. She has been teaching various introductory programming courses including CS101, CS115,   CS125,  and […]

Can Alkan, Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective April 22, 2021. Dr. Alkan received his Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington, Seattle. He also worked in ETH Zurich and Seven Bridges Genomics as […]

Mobile gaming company, Loop Games, co-founded by our CS graduate Mert Gür (2017), received upto $60 million investment from international mobile games publisher Tilting Point. The company was founded in 2019. Since then, games developed by the Ankara-based company have been downloaded more than 50 million times on iOS and Android platforms; in 2020, Loop […]

A book on founding startup companies, written by Computer Engineering Graduate Ilker Koksal (CS’2013) is now available in Amazon.com.  Entitled as “Founder’s FAQ”, the book has also made into the bestseller list in Venture Capital category. “Founder’s FAQ is an authentic guide for founders by revealing what works and what doesn’t in the predictable journey […]

Selim Aksoy, Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, has been  promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective March 18, 2021. Dr. Aksoy received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2001. Before joining Bilkent, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at UW during 1996-2001, and […]

Graduate school open house took place on March 27th through Zoom. Students interested in doing MS and PhD in our department were able to get information about our research. There were interactive sessions. Potential applicants  learned about the admission process and financial support opportunities. They met with our faculty members. Event link: http://gradopenhouse.bilkent.edu.tr/