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On July 3, 2026, the Department of Computer Engineering hosted Dr. Mercan Topkara, a Bilkent CS alumna and founder of Hashtag In Real Life, for a seminar and faculty working session titled “What to Keep, What to Change: Preparing CS Graduates for the Era of Agentic Coding.” During the two-hour session, Dr. Topkara discussed how agentic…

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sahillioğlu received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “3D Mesh Parameterization with Cut-Distortion-Packing Optimizations”.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Özgür S. Öğüz received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “HC-VLA: Human-Centric Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models for Asymmetric Human-Robot Collaboration”.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Dündar received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “3D-Consistent Expandable Scene Generation from a Single Image”.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinem Sav received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “Dynamic Defense Strategies Against Colluding Adversaries in Genomic Beacon Protocols”.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eray Tüzün received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “AI Assisted Bug Reporting and Validity Analysis System”.

Prof. Dr. Özgür Ulusoy received a grant from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program for the project titled “Translating Natural Language Queries into Structured Query Language (SQL) Using Large Language Models (LLMs)”

Faculty members and students from the Department of Computer Engineering represented Bilkent University at the Computational Genomics Summer Institute 2025 (CGSI), hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The month-long program, held annually since 2016, brings together international faculty, postdocs, and students to foster collaboration and create advanced training opportunities. The Bilkent team…

The new undergraduate curriculum for the Computer Engineering Department was approved by the University Senate and became official for the students that will be enrolled in the 2025-2026 Fall semester. The transition plan for the currently enrolled students will be announced in the coming weeks.

Our faculty members, Ercüment Çiçek and Can Alkan, and our graduate students Zülal Bingöl, Sobhan Shokoueiantabrizi, and Masoud Poorghaffar Aghdam have attended the RECOMB 2025 Conference, organized by Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. RECOMB is the most prestigious conference in computational molecular biology, where theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular…