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MS Thesis Presentation: “Parafac-Spark: Parallel Tensor Decompositions on Spark,” Selim Eren Bekçe (CS), EA-409, 2:30PM August 8 (EN)

MS THESIS PRESENTATION: Parafac-Spark: Parallel Tensor Decompositions on Spark Selim Eren Bekçe MS Student (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cevdet Aykanat) (Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Mustafa Özdal) Computer Engineering Department Tensors are higher order matrices, widely used in many data science applications and scientific disciplines. The Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (also known […]

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MS Thesis Presentation: “High Level Synthesis Based FPGA Implementation of Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product to Accelerate Canonical Polyadic Decomposition,” Zahit Saygın Doğu (CS), EA-409, 3:45PM August 8 (EN)

MS THESIS PRESENTATION: High Level Synthesis Based FPGA Implementation of Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product to Accelerate Canonical Polyadic Decomposition Zahit Saygın Doğu MS Student (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cevdet Aykanat ) (Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Mustafa Özdal) Computer Engineering Department Tensor factorization has many applications such as network anomaly […]

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MS Thesis Presentation: “Design and Analysis of Metamaterial Based Perfect Absorbers,” Mahmut Can Soydan (EE), NANOTAM Old Building Seminar Room, 10AM August 22 (EN)

SEMINAR: Design and Analysis of Metamaterial Based Perfect Absorbers By MAHMUT CAN SOYDAN M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Prof. Dr. Vakur B. Ertürk & Prof. Dr. Ekmel Özbay The seminar will be on Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 10:00 @NANOTAM Old Building Seminar Room ABSTRACT Subwavelength light absorbers have […]

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MSN Thesis Defence: “Dynamic Adaptive Colloidal Crystals Far From Equilibrium,” Roujin Ghaffari, UNAM Conference Hall, 10AM August 2 (EN)

MATERIALS SCIENCE and NANOTECHNOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM M.Sc. Thesis Defence by Roujin Ghaffari “Dynamic Adaptive Colloidal Crystals Far From Equilibrium” Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Serim Kayacan İlday Date: 02.08.2019 (Friday) Time: 10:00 Place: UNAM Conference Hall ____________________________________________________________ UNAM – National Nanotechnology Research Center Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Address: Bilkent University, […]

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CHEM Seminar: “Self-organization in Precipitation Reactions: Liesegang Phenomenon,” Dr. István Lagzi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), UNAM Conference Hall, 2PM July 29 (EN)

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: “Self-organization in precipitation reactions: Liesegang phenomenon” Dr. István Lagzi Budapest University of Technology and Economics Abstract: Precipitation reactions coupled to mass transport of chemicals in hydrogels can result in impressive micro- and macrostructured patterns known as periodic precipitation (or Liesegang phenomenon). Liesegang patterns consist of parallel precipitation […]

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CS Seminar: “Multimodal Analysis for Apparent Personality and Emotion Estimation,” Prof. Dr. Albert Ali Salah (Utrecht University), FFB-05, 1:30PM July 30 (EN)

S E M I N A R: “Multimodal Analysis for Apparent Personality and Emotion Estimation” Prof. Dr. Albert Ali Salah Utrecht University, NL Explainability and interpretability are two critical aspects of decision support systems. Within computer vision, they are critical in certain tasks related to human behavior analysis such as […]

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MS Thesis Presentation: “Diverse SNP Selection for Epistasis Test Prioritization,” Gizem Çaylak (CS), EA-409, 11:40PM August 1 (EN)

MS THESIS PRESENTATION: Diverse SNP Selection for Epistasis Test Prioritization Gizem Çaylak MS Student (Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. A. Ercüment Çiçek ) Computer Engineering Department Bilkent University Genome-wide association studies explain a fraction of the underlying heritability of genetic diseases. Epistatic interactions between two or more loci help closing the […]

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MS Thesis Presentation: “Boosting Fully Convolutional Networks for Gland Instance Segmentation in Histopathological Images,” Gözde Nur Güneşli (CS), EA-409, 9:40AM August 2 (EN)

MS THESIS PRESENTATION: “Boosting Fully Convolutional Networks for Gland Instance Segmentation in Histopathological Images” Gözde Nur Güneşli MS Student (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Gündüz Demir ) Computer Engineering Department In the current literature, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) are the most preferred architectures for dense prediction tasks, including gland […]

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