2018 News

Bio of Ayse Imrohoroglu

Ayşe İmrohoroğlu is a Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.   full story

Bio of Bulent Basol

Bulent Basol is the CEO/Co-Founder of Active Layer Parametrics (ALP), a Silicon Valley startup developing a novel characterization technology for the semiconductor industry. He received his B.S (Bogazici University) and Ph.D. (UCLA) degrees in electrical engineering.   full story

Bio of Hasan Ayaz

Hasan Ayaz is an Associate Professor at Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, with adjunct affiliations the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and a core member of the Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research Collaborative.   full story

Bio of Huseyin Abut

Hüseyin Abut is Professor Emeritus from Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University. At present, he is a visiting Professor at Bogazici University. He has also held visiting faculty appointments in Turkey, Japan, Singapore, Germany, and Stanford University.   full story

Hamdi Ulukaya visited Dagdeviren's MIT Media Lab

CEO and Founder of Chobani, Mr. Hamdi Ulukaya visited Dr. Canan Dagdeviren's group at the MIT Media Lab on June 5th. Mr. Ulukaya and his team had a tour of Media Lab and learned about Canan's group research.   full story

Attending University Presidents from Turkey, TASSA 2018 Conference

Please click the names to reach out their biographies. Canan Aykut Bingol (Yeditepe) Esra Gencturk (Ozyegin) Umran Inan (Koc) Mustafa Versan Kok (ODTU) ...   full story

Invited Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Umay Saplakoglu

Umay Saplakoglu, born in Ankara, Turkey, graduated from Middle East Technical University in 1989 with a B.S. degree in biology. That followed Master of Science degree in 1991 on “Isolation and characterization of two forms of soluble NADH cytochrome b5 reductase from human erythrocytes.”   full story

Invited Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Ayse Imrohoroglu

Ayse Imrohoroglu is a Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.   full story

Invited Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Canan Dagdeviren

Canan Dagdeviren is an Assistant Professor at MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Conformable Decoders research group. The group aims to convert the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy.   full story

Invited Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Aysen Candas

Aysen Candas holds a PhD in Political Science (Columbia University, 2005). Since 2005, she is full-time faculty at Bogazici University’s Political Science and International Relations department.   full story

Invited Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Gokhan Hotamisligil

Dr. Hotamisligil’s research efforts focus on the molecular and genetic basis of common and complex diseases, particularly obesity and diabetes, and their complications.   full story

Keynote Speakers of TASSA 2018 Conference, Selcuk Sirin

Selcuk R. Sirin is a Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University. Dr. Sirin studies the lives of marginalized children and youth and ways to enrich professionals’ skill set to better serve their educational and psychological needs.   full story