Our Team
Dr. Murat Karakus
Murat Karakus received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Suleyman Demirel University, Türkiye, in 2009, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Flint, USA, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in the Computer Science from Purdue School of Science in Indianapolis, USA, in 2018. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Software Engineering at Ankara University in Türkiye. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGITE 2011 conference. He has 50+ peer-reviewed publications and serves as a reviewer for esteemed IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier journals and conferences. His current research interests include next-generation network architectures, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Blockchain technology, NLP, network scalability, QoS, and routing. He has led various research and industry projects.
Dr. Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe
Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe received her BSc degree from Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2014, and her MSc and PhD degrees from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, Colchester, in 2017 and 2022, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Karadeniz Technical University. Her research interests includes Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing. She actively engages in international and interdisciplinary AI projects, keen on applying theoretical knowledge to real-world challenges across diverse fields.
Dr. Ercan Ezin
Ercan Ezin recently completed his Ph.D. in Context-Aware Recommender Systems from the University of Bristol,UK in May 2024. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Essex, UK, and dual BSc degrees in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies and Software Engineering from Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye. Dr. Ezin’s research focuses on AI and machine learning, particularly in Context-Aware Next-POI Recommendations and, more recently, Natural Language Processing. With extensive experience as an AI Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the University of Bristol, he has published papers in top-tier conferences on recommender systems and is actively involved in NLP projects. Dr. Ezin’s industry background includes roles as a Java Software Developer, Data Scientist, and IT Director, bringing a blend of academic expertise and practical software development skills to his work. Dr. Ezin has been appointed as a tenured faculty member at Harran University, Türkiye.