A. Ercüment Çiçek

Welcome! 

I am Ercument Cicek,

o   an Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University, and

 

Before,
 
 

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Thesis: Metabolic network-based Analyses of Omics Data Advisor: Prof. Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

Visiting Graduate Student

Worked in Iossifov Lab.

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis: Ensuring Location Diversity in Privacy Preserving Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

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Awards

Distinguished Teaching Award 2022
Distinguished Teaching Award 2022 Bilkent University
Aziz Sancar Incentive Award 2020
Aziz Sancar Incentive Award 2020 Health Institutes of Turkey - TÜSEB
BAGEP 2020
BAGEP 2020 Young Scientist Awards Program
Research Incentive Award
Research Incentive Award 2019 - IEEE Turkey Section
Research Incentive Award
Research Incentive Award 2018 - METU Parlar Foundation
Visiting Researcher Fellowship
Visiting Researcher Fellowship Visiting University of Strasbourg in Summer 2018
Outstanding Young Scientist Award
Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2017 - Turkish Academy of Sciences
Lane Fellowship
Lane Fellowship 2013 - 2015
ACM SIGMOD Scholarship
ACM SIGMOD Scholarship ACM A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration
Choose Ohio First Scholarship
Choose Ohio First Scholarship 2011-2012
Fulbright Doctorate Fellowship
Fulbright Doctorate Fellowship 2009
CWRU Research Assistantship
CWRU Research Assistantship 2009 - 2013
TUBITAK Graduate Fellowship
TUBITAK Graduate Fellowship 2007-2009 - Technical and Scientific Research Council of Turkey
SU Undergraduate Scholarship
SU Undergraduate Scholarship 2003 - 2007

Talks

  • Physics of Life Seminar Series, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Feb 24, 2023.
  • SAFARI Seminar Series, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Jun 2, 2023
  • Lausanne CompBio Meetings, Lausanne, Switzerland, Jun 14, 2023
  • Special Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, Jun 20, 2023
  • Keynote Talk, East European Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics School (EEBG) 2023, Chișinău, Moldova, June 29, 2023.
  • Science Academy - Artificial Intelligence Summer School 2021, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. June 23, 2021.
  • RECOMB 2023, Istanbul, Turkey. April 17, 2023.
  • EuroCC Turkey Seminars, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. June 9, 2022.
  • Science Academy - Artificial Intelligence Summer School 2022, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey. June 28, 2022.
  • International Basic Oncology Congress, Istanbul, Turkey. June 4, 2022.
  • 13th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical Sciences (IPOPS) 2021, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.June 22, 2021.
  • Mt. Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine, New York City, NY. Apr 12, 2019.
  • Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, CT. Apr 10, 2019.
  • Bilkent University, Department of Neuroscience, Ankara, Turkey. Mar 27, 2019.
  • Hacettepe University, Computer Engineering Dept., Ankara, Türkiye, Nov 2, 2018.
  • Weill Cornell Medical College, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York City, NY. Apr 11, 2018.
  • New York University, Department of Biology, New York City, NY. Apr 12, 2018.
  • HIBIT 2019, Izmir, Turkey. Oct 18, 2019.
  • IEEE AP/MTT/EMC/ED Seminar, Electrical Engineering Dept., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Oct 11, 2019.
  • Sabanci University, Artificial Intelligence Summer School, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep 7, 2019.
  • Bioinformatics Workshop III, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, May 26, 2019.
  • ISCB-RSG Webinar, May 23, 2019.
  • Acibadem University - Medical Informatics Course, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2, 2019.
  • AGU, Life Sciences Congress, Kayseri, Turkey, Feb 22, 2019.
  • National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) - Synthetic Biology Day '18, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Oct 6, 2018.
  • ISMB 2018, Chicago, IL. Jul 8, 2018.
  • Yale University, Biomedical Informatics Dept., New Haven, CT. Apr 9, 2019.
  • Koc University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Mar 4, 2019
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Nov 14, 2018.
  • Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute, Ankara, Turkey. Nov 8, 2017.
  • Bilkent University, Dept. of Electric and Electronics Engineering, Ankara, Turkey. Nov 1, 2017.
  • GenoPri 2017, Orlando, FL. Oct 15, 2017.
  • Istanbul University, IUGEN, Istanbul, Turkey. Mar 3, 2019.
  • BYOYO 2018, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Jul 4, 2018.
  • Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey. Sep 23, 2017.
  • The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT) 2017, North Cyprus, Jun 28, 2017
  • 12th National Medical Genetics Congress, Izmir, Turkey, Oct 07, 2016.
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Aug 19, 2015.
  • Bilkent University, Dept. of Psychology, Ankara, Turkey. Nov 25, 2015.
  • Bilkent University, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ankara, Turkey. Dec 9, 2015.
  • Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute, Ankara, Turkey. Mar 9, 2016.
  • Middle East Technical University, Biological Sciences Department, Ankara, Turkey. Mar 11, 2016.
  • International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Salt Lake City, UT. May 15, 2015.
  • Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dec 22, 2014.
  • Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dec 23, 2014.
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dec 24, 2014.
  • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Dec 29, 2014.
  • Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. January 9, 2014.
  • ISMB 2014, Boston, MA. July 15, 2014.
  • International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. July 25, 2014.
  • University of Strasbourg, France. Mar 12, 2015.
  • The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2), Columbia University, New York, NY. Mar 13, 2013.
  • Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carrnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. March 18, 2013.
  • Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. March 21, 2013.
  • Gerstein Lab, Yale University, New Haven, CT. March 26, 2013.
  • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. March 27, 2013.
  • Dept. of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. April 23, 2013.
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Jun 6, 2012
  • EECS - Case Western Reserve University, @EECS Departmental Seminars, Nov. 29, 2010.
  • School of Medicine - Case Western Reserve University, to Cystic Fibrosis Research Group, Nov. 2, 2010.
  • University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Texas, USA, Aug. 22, 2008.

Teaching

2024-2025 Spring

2024-2025 Fall