Students :

• Demet Yuksel Dal (PhD student, EE) - Supervisor: B. Acar
• Topic: Multimodal Brain Connectome Analysis With Application to AD
• Gunes Bayir (PhD student, EE) - Co-supervisors: B. Acar, T. Cemgil
• Topic: Multi-Scale Graph Analysis of Brain Connectomes
• Gurur Gamgam (PhD student, EE) - Supervisor: B. Acar
• Topic: Joint Structure-Function Analysis on Brain Connectomes
• Muhammed Gorunen (BS student, EE) - EE491-2
• Topic: Functional Brain Network Simulation using TVB Platform and Real Structural Connectomes
• Yigit Avci (BS student, EE) - Intern/EE491-2
• Topic: Deep tensor factorization of brain connectomes
• Ful Belin Korukoğlu (BS student, MBG) - Intern
• Topic: Circulating Diagnostic Biomarkers for Coronary Microvascular Disease
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Alumni:

• What did former graduate students do after VAVlab?
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• Sibel Senturk (MS'21, EE): Researcher @ Arcelik Atolye 4.0 R&D Team
• Goktekin Durusoy (PhD'21, EE): Researcher @ Kandilli Observatory
• Gurkan Aydemir (PhD'20, EE): Faculty member @ Bursa Technical University
• Kaan Oktay (MS'19, EE): PhD @ LMU, Munich
• Alper Bayram (MS'19, EE) :PhD @ Univ. of Luxembourg, Data &Computational Sciences
• Neda Barzegar Marvasti (PhD'17, EE): Post-doc at Aalto University, Finland
• Basak Kilic (MS'17, SCO):
• Aysun Coban (MS'16, EE): Staff researcher at TUBITAK
• Mert Tuzer (MS'15, Phys): PhD at Bogazici Univ. Physics Dept.
• Nadin Kokciyan (MS'11, CmpE): PhD at Bogazici Univ. CmpE Eng. (Supervisor: P. Yolum)
• Pinar Akyazi (MS'13, EE): PhD at EPFL
• Omer Can Gurol (MS'13, EE): Design Engineer at Hexagon Studio
• Akbarjan Keram (MS'13, EE): R&D Engineer at Provus Information Technology Co., Istanbul
• Remzi Ozgur Kafali (PhD'12, CmpE): Post-doc at Dept. of CS, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK (Supervisor: P. Yolum)
• Serkan Cimen (MS'12, EE): PhD at University of Sheffield, UK
• A. Burak Yoldemir (MS'11, EE): PhD at UBC, Vancouver, Canada
• Sila Girgin (MS'08, CmpE): Manager, Softeware Eng. at GE, Istanbul
• Enver Yagci (MS'07, SCO): Engineer at Turk Telekom, Istanbul, TR
• Ugur Bozkaya (MS'06, BioMed): Engineer at Oddcast, NY, USA
• Erhan Durusut (MS'05, CmpE): Project manager at SESTEK, Inc., Istanbul, Turkey
• Ender Konukoglu (MS'05, EE): PhD at INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
• Erdem Yoruk (MS'05, EE): PhD at the Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics, Johns-Hopkins University, USA
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What did former undergraduate students do after VAVlab?

• Serhat Tadik ('22): PhD @ Georgia Tech
• Ali Simsek ('22): 
• Yigit Korkmaz ('21): PhD @ UCSD
• Abdullah Hayran ('20): MS @ TUM
• Fatih Sogukpinar ('20): PhD @ Washington University in St. Louis
• Ali Keskin ('19):
• Onur Atilgan ('19): Staff at LISA A.I. & MS @ ITU, CmpE
• M. Ebrar Aktas ('19):
• Ramazan Yilmaz ('18): MS @ Bogazici Univ. EE
• Mehmet Onay ('18): TUM, ECE Dept,  Neuroengineering
• Umut Kucukaslan ('18): TUM, Informatics Department, Biomedical Computing
• Zeynep Kahraman ('18): Boston University, MA, USA
• Abdullah Karaaslanli ('17): PhD @ Michigan State Univ., USA
• Ferhat Melih Dal ('17):
• Kaan Ege Ozgun ('16): UCLA, CA, USA
• Kubra Cilingir ('16): Boston University, MA, USA
• Cem Guray ('15): Industrial Eng. & OR, Columbia University, NY, USA
• Orhan Ocal ('12):  Lab. for Audiovisual Communications, Sch. of Comp. and Comm. Sci., EPFL, Switzerland
• Baris Kandemir ('12): IISL, Coll. of Info. Sci. and Tech., The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Seyma Guven ('11): Management of Technology, Polytechnic Inst. of New York University, USA
• Bilge Aksu ('11): Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Area, France
• Anil Erdogdu ('11): Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA
• Aytekin Cabuk ('10): Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory, UCLA , USA
• Erdenay Alpay ('10): Image Sciences Inst., University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Sema Berkiten ('10): Princeton University, USA
• Firat Sarialtun ('09): TU, Munich, Germany
• Ferit Buyukkececi ('09):  Computational Science and Engineering, TU Munchen, Germany
• D. Vural Ozbudak ('09): Telecom ParisTech, FR
• Sinan Kesici ('08):  Communication Engineering in RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Mehmet Yigitsoy ('08): CAMP, Faculty of Informatics, TU Munich Germany
• Ali Yener Mutlu ('08): Michigan State University, USA
• Yalcin Tarkocin ('06): George Washington University, USA
• Selami Ciftci ('06): UT-Dallas, USA
• Cagatay Capar ('06): UMass, Amherst, USA
• Serdar Kemal Balci ('06): MIT, USA
• Cem Murat Deniz ('05): ETH, Switzerland
• Murat Aksoy ('03): Stanford University, USA

• Collaborators & Visitors:

• Ceyhun B. Akgul, PhD: Post-doc researcher
• Sibel Oztan: Databases
• Mehmet Yusufoglu: VAVlab software development
• Emre Kucukayvaz: VAVlab software environment design
• Gokhan Gumus: BRAINet data preprocessing pipeline development
• Abdulkadir Yazici: MUSE simulator implementation, CaReRa server implementation