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First grant alert! I am pleased to announce that my Career Development Grant proposal is funded by TUBITAK.

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CICEKLAB’s latest graduate is Sina Barazandeh. He lead multiple projects related to genAI, language models and biological sequences. He is now going to seek a Ph.D. Degree at Carnegie Mellon University PS. Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Dept. enrolled 20 Ph.D. students this year and 2 are from our lab. What is the pval?

AirLift algorithm by #JeremieKim, Can Firtina Meryem Banu Cavlak Damla Şenol Çalı Mohammed Alser Nastaran Hajinazar Can Alkan Onur Mutlu / SAFARI Research Group is now published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10638…

We welcome our new faculty member, Doruk Öner, to CS@Bilkent. Dr. Öner obtained his Ph.D. from EPFL, where he also worked as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Öner's research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning. scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user…

Today would have been the 83rd birthday of Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and co-creator of Unix: zd.net/2creeZi (Image v/SanderFocus, article v/Jason Perlow (Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads) & ZDNET)

Publication by Zülal Bingöl and Can Alkan in IEEE Transactions on Computers.

M.Sc. defense by İdil Hanhan: "Finding Expert Developers Using Artifact Traceability Graphs" on September 11, 2024 at 15:30 in EA-409. Supervisor: Eray Tuzun cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~sekreter/semi…

M.Sc. defense by Arçin Ülkü Ergüzen: "Personality Transfer In Human Animation: Comparing Handcrafted and Data-Driven Approaches" on September 12, 2024 at 11:00 in EA-409. Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay. cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~sekreter/semi…

M.Sc. defense by Maria Raluca Eskin: "Analysis of Speech Content and Voice for Deceit Detection" on September 12, 2024 at 10:00 in EA-409. Supervisor: Hamdi Dibeklioğlu. cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~sekreter/semi…

Computer Engineering Department at Bilkent University aims to hire multiple new faculty members at Assistant, Associate, and full Professor ranks for candidates with commensurate experiences and accomplishments. For more details and to apply please visit stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/CS2021

We also aim to hire instructors and seek candidates for the available positions. Instructor duties mainly include teaching one or more of the introduction to computing and programming courses for non-CS majors. For more details and to apply please visit w3.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/instructor-pos…

M. Sc. thesis defense by Alperen Kalay: "Reconfigurable CNN Accelerator Design using Dataflow Analysis" on September 18, 2024 at 09:40 in EA-409. Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay, co-supervisor: Özcan Öztürk. cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~sekreter/semi…

Proud of Burak Yetiştiren for presenting our research at IEEE ICSME 2025! Big thanks to first author Mahmut Furkan Gön , absent due to visa issues. We found comment-free reviews are 3.5x more prone to LGTM smell, causing more late commits. Emphasizing the need for thorough code reviews!

We held our third plenary meeting for the BioPIM Project in beautiful Zurich, marking the close of our second review period. Since our last meeting in May, we have published three additional papers, with several more submitted and available as preprints.

Check out our new preprint on genomic privacy. As we and others have shown, the genomic data sharing beacon protocol is vulnerable to membership inference attacks. Defenses exist but they cannot adapt to threats that can change strategies and evolve. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join us in Istanbul for #EASE2025 Industry Track! Submit a 4-page short paper on your SE evaluation & assessment experience by Mar 16 (abstract by Mar 9). Connect with peers in mid-June in the city bridging two continents! CfP: conf.researchr.org/track/ease-202… EASE 2025 Vladimir Kovalenko

Our latest paper, "Privacy-Preserving Hyperparameter Tuning for Federated Learning," is now published at IEEE Transactions on Privacy ! 🎉 We tackle the challenge of hyperparameter tuning in FL without compromising data privacy. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10848…