I am an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in CIS department and joined the team in 2020 August; currently holding two roles as: i) Programme Leader of our BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence course, ii) Departmental Coordinator of International Student/Staff Mobility Programmes (e.g. Turing scheme).

​I received my BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Department of Computer Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005, 2007, and 2013 respectively. I gained the FHEA recognition in April 2022 (reference number: PR239818).

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Statistics, and Machine Learning

Awards in these fields

An Integrative Wellbeing Framework and Open Online System for NHS and Integrated Care Staff in England and beyond - Awarded by NHS England (£40,000 Co-I, 2022)

Histological sub-classification of medulloblastoma tumours - Awarded by Northumbria University Application Seed Funding (~£13,000 Co-I, 2022).

Co-develop an integrative evaluation model and tools with NHS to support wellbeing and trauma informed care - Awarded by Northumbria University Participatory Research Evaluation Fund (£6,000 Co-I, 2022).

Impact of Qigong intervention on Wellbeing - Awarded by UWTSD Confucius Institute (~£4,000 PI, 2021)

Online Wellbeing Diary - Awarded by NHS England (£10,000 Co-I, 2021)

Identifying subtypes in pancreatic cancer with a novel single-cell RNA sequencing-based ensemble classification model- Awarded by CIS R&I ECR Support Fund (£3,500 PI, 2021)

American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship - for two years ($110,000 - awarded in 2017)

UCLA Iris Cantor/Women’s Health Center Postdoctoral Fellowship - for one year ($20,000 - awarded in 2017)

PGR Supervision

Zoe Moorton, Start Date: 01/10/2022 (2nd supervisor is: Prof Wai Lok Woo), PhD Thesis Title: Identification of the type of the debris in marine ecosystem using explainable deep learning methods (NU RDF Funding, reference number: RDF22/EE/CIS/KURT)

Olalekan Ogundipe, Start Date: 18/01/2021 (1st supervisor: Prof Wai Lok Woo), PhD Thesis Title: Deep Neural Networks integrating functional genomics  and histopathological images data for predicting sub-types in colon cancer

Sultan Sevgi Turgut, Start Date: 14/06/2021 (1st supervisor: Prof Nizamettin Aydin from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, PhD Thesis Title: Single-Cell Analysis of the Human Pancreas by Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Sajjad Nematzadeh, Start Date: 14/07/2021 (1st supervisor: Prof Nizamettin Aydin) from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, PhD Thesis Title: Use of AI for Predicting Secondary Structures of RNAs and Proteins

Memberships

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Membership

American Heart Association Membership (2015-2018)