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  • Generalizable Deep Learning Approaches for Computational Drug Discovery

    PhD Thesis📅 24.06.2026 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: GOKHAN OZSARI 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.HALIT OGUZTUZUN,PROF.DR.M.VOLKAN ATALAY 📍 Location: A101 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Computational prediction of drug–target interactions is central to modern drug discovery, enabling the prioritization of candidate compounds before costly…

  • A Unified Sequence Modeling Framework for Imperfect-Information Trick-Taking Card Games

    PhD Thesis📅 11.06.2026 — 11:00 👤 Speaker: BUGRA KAAN DEMIRDOVER 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.FERDA NUR ALPASLAN 📍 Location: A101 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: This thesis investigates whether transformer-based sequence modeling can serve as a practical and reusable reinforcement learning framework for trick-taking card games…

  • DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PLATFORM FOR MULTIMORBID ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA

    MSc Thesis📅 08.06.2026 — 11:00 👤 Speaker: AHMET EMRE AKPINAR 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.NIHAN KESIM CICEKLI 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: This thesis presents the development and implementation of the Patient Empowerment Platform (PEP), an innovative mobile application designed to enhance the management and…

  • GRAPH-ENHANCED PRECEDENT CASE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE TURKISH LEGAL SYSTEM

    MSc Thesis📅 08.06.2026 — 10:00 👤 Speaker: MUSTAFA MERT KOSE 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.NIHAN KESIM CICEKLI 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: Legal professionals in Turkey face a growing challenge in efficiently locating rel- evant precedent cases from an ever-expanding corpus of judicial decisions. While graph-…

  • Evaluation of Hybrid Rendering Pipelines for Screen-Spaced and Ray-Traced Reflections

    PhD Thesis📅 03.06.2026 — 10:30 👤 Speaker: SERKAN PEKCETIN 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.AHMET OGUZ AKYUZ 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Recently, with the advent of real-time ray tracing on consumer-grade graphical processing units (GPUs), hybrid methods that leverage the rasterization pipeline and ray tracing…

  • Product Management & Productization: Beyond Project Delivery

    Seminar📅 21.05.2026 — 13:40 👤 Speaker: Dr. Betül Kuruoğlu Dolu 📍 Location: BMB1 ⏲ Duration: 60 min. 📝 Abstract: This talk explores the transition from project-oriented software development to sustainable product-oriented thinking from the perspectives of Product Management and Productization. It discusses the fundamental differences…

  • Roketsan'da Yapay Zeka Çalışmaları

    Seminar📅 20.05.2026 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: Dr. Bilge Kaan Görür 📍 Location: BMB1 ⏲ Duration: 60 min. 📝 Abstract: Bu etkinlikte Roketsan Yapay Zeka Müdürlüğü'nde gerçekleştirilen çalışmaların tanıtımı gerçekleştirilecektir. Bu çalışmalar kapsamında ürünlerde, görev planlama ve komuta kontrol merkezlerinde, kurumsal süreçlerde kullanılan yapay…

  • Reasoning with Language Models: Curriculum Learning and Latent Chain-of-Thought

    Seminar📅 07.05.2026 — 13:40 👤 Speaker: Samet Oymak 📍 Location: BMB1 ⏲ Duration: 60 min. 📝 Abstract: Recent research has led to remarkable progress in the capabilities of language models. Current frontier models can tackle very challenging math and coding tasks such as AIME or IOI problems at the cost of generating long chain-of-thought…

  • Improving the performance of prioritized planning in multi-agent path finding

    MSc Thesis📅 21.04.2026 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: ANIL CABAK 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.FARUK POLAT 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: MAPF is a fundamental challenge that is frequently encountered in robotics, warehouse automation, and systems with more than one robot. The goal is to find paths for multiple agents that don…

  • SEMANTIC MATCHING FOR REVIEWER ASSIGNMENT: AN ABLATION STUDY OF DENSE RETRIEVAL, CLUSTERING AND LLM REASONING

    MSc Thesis📅 20.04.2026 — 14:00 👤 Speaker: IREM DERELI 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.NIHAN CICEKLI 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: Assigning suitable academic reviewers to research projects is a complex task that requires understanding both the semantic content of project descriptions and the diverse research…