Academic Staff

Yusuf Murat Erten received his BS degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Birmingham in England, and then completed his master's degree in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the USA and his doctorate in Computer Engineering at METU. He worked at companies such as Ortaş Telecommunications, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, İnnova. He also worked METU Informatics Institute, Atılım University, TOBB ETU Computer Engineering, IYTE Computer Engineering and Bakırçay University Computer Engineering Departments as a faculty member. Murat Erten also served as the General Manager of Teknopark İzmir during the years he worked at IZTECH. He has been working as a faculty member at Izmir University of Economics Computer Engineering Department since 2021. He continues his research on computer networks, network security, sensor networks.

Turhan Tunali earned a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and MSc Degree in Applied Statistics from Ege University, both in Turkey. He then earned a DSc Degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St.Louis, USA in 1985. After his doctorate study, he joined Computer Engineering Department of Ege University as an assistant professor where he became an associate professor in 1988. During the period of 1992–1994, he worked in Department of Computer Technology of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore as a Visiting Senior Fellow. He then joined International Computer Institute of Ege University as a Professor where he was the director from 2001 to 2009. In the period of 2000–2001 he worked in Department of Computer Science of Loyola University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor. He is currently working as a Professor at Department of Computer Engineering of Izmir University of Economics. His current research interests include adaptive video streaming and Internet performance measurements.

Builds bridges among academia, government R&D labs, industrial research, and commercial enterprises. Successful track record in academia, in government R&D, as well as in industry. Principal investigator for multimillion dollar research grants. Unique combination of business and technology expertise in startups, mid-size software companies, as well as in large IT organizations launching complex enterprise products. Experience working with geographically distributed multidisciplinary teams from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

He received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from İzmir Institute of Technology at 2012, his MSc degree in Game Technologies from Middle East Technical University at 2017, and his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from İzmir University of Economics at 2023. He worked as a software developer at METU Computer Center between 2013-2017, and as a research assistant at Computer Engineering department of our university between 2018-2024. He's been working as an Assistant Professor at the same department since November 2024. His research interests cover the topics such as player-computer interaction, artificial intelligence for games, psychology in game design, virtual/augmented/mixed reality technologies and graph generators for social networks.

Cem Evrendilek received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1988, 1992, and 1996 respectively. During his graduate study, he had the opportunity to conduct research on persistent programming languages, multidatabase query optimization, interoperability, and data clustering. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University during 1997. From 1991 to 2007, he has also worked for the industry and directed military and civilian projects involving the design and development C3I and ERP systems. He has also designed a very fast computer player for a Scrabble like word game that can make expert-caliber moves against thousands of human players simultaneously.

Cem Evrendilek has been a member of the Faculty of Engineering at İzmir University of Economics since 2007. He also taught undergraduate and graduate courses during the Spring semester of 2023-2024 in the Department of Computer Engineering at George Mason University. His current research focuses on design and analysis of computational aspects of various algorithms in diverse areas such as graph partitioning, polygonal covering, and localization.

Alper Demir has received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, in 2014, 2016 and 2019, respectively. During his graduate years, he have worked as a Teaching Assistant in the same department and studied Reinforcement Learning, and Fully and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. Alper Demir, has been a member of the Department of Computer Engineering in Izmir University of Economy since 2020. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning and Data Analysis.

Ilker Korkmaz received the BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and MSc. degree in Computer Science from Ege University. He received the PhD degree in Information Technologies from International Computer Institute at Ege University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Dalkilic. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Izmir University of Economics. His research interests include computer networks and network security. His recent focus is on secure aggregation protocols in wireless sensor networks. In addition, he also conducts research in the field of machine learning.

Okan Yaman received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2012 and earned his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the same institution in 2016. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) in 2023. Dr. Yaman’s professional experience includes serving as a transportation modeler for a European Union project prepared for the National Transport Master Plan of Türkiye in 2016 and working as a web developer in 2018. His primary research interests lie in computer networks and network security.

Kaya Oğuz received his B.Sc. degree in Software Engineering in 2007 from Izmir University of Economics (IUE), his M.Sc. degree in Computer Games Technology in 2009 from University of Abertay Dundee with distinction, and his Ph.D. in Information Technologies in 2016, from Ege University, International Computer Institute (ICI). He has been employed as a teaching assistant between 2009-2011 at IUE, as a lecturer at ICI between 2011-2017. He has been appointed as assistant professor at IUE in February 2017. He is the head of department since 2019. His research interest covers game AI, machine learning, image processing, medical imaging and fMRI.