Prof. Yetis was born in Eskisehir, Turkey in 1950. She was educated at
Bogazici University. She received her MBA in Operations Management at
the same university and PhD. in Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical
University.
M.Selim Unlu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering and Physics at Boston University. He received the B.S
degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara
in 1986, and the MSEE and PhD in electrical engineering from the University
of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 1988 and 1992 respectively. His research
areas are research and development of photonic materials, devices and
systems focusing on the design, processing and characterisation of
semiconductor optoelectronic materials and devices as well as high resolution
imaging and sensing biological materials.
Hur Koser is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department
at Yale University. Dr. Koser graduated from Kadikoy Anatolian High School
and Robert College of Istanbul prior to coming US for undergraduate
education. He obtained double BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master's of
Engineering degree for his work on magnetic random access memory
devices at IBM TJ Watson Research Lab. After post doctoral work in
microfluidics at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, he joined Yale
University in 2003
Mehmet Sarikaya is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engieering (MSE)
and Chemical Engineering Departments and the director of the Genetically
Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center, and NSF supported
Center. Dr. Sarikaya earned his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the
Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 1977, and recaived his MS and
PhD in MSE from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and 1982
respectively.
Ivet Bahar is the Founding Chair of the Department of Computational Biology
and Professor of Computational Biology at the School of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh. She received her BS and MS from Bogazici
University, Turkey and her PhD from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
She served as a Assistant Prof 1986-1987, Assoc. Prof 1987-1993, Full Prof.
1993-2001 and as the Directof of Polymer Research Center at the Chemical
Engineering Department of Bogazici University.
Ahmet Yildiz is a postdoctoral fellow at University of California San Francisco.
He received his BS degree in Physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul,
Turkey in 2001 and started his graduate studies in biophysics at the
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He worked in the research group of
Paul R. Selvin where he develop the techinique of Fluorescence Imaging
with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA). Dr Yildiz received his PhD in 2004.
His thesis was granted the Young Scientist Award by AAAS.
Ersel Aydinli is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at The George
Wasington University. Elliott School of International Affairs. He previously
taught at Middle East Technical University and Bilkent University in Ankara.
He has an MA from the George Washington University and PhD in political
science from McGill University, Montreal.
Omer Taspinar is the Director of the Turkey Program at the Brookings
Institution and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, School of
Advanced International Studies. Prior to joining Brookings, Taspinar workend
as an Asistant Professor at SAIS in Bologna, Italy. He completed his doctorate
studies on Plitical Islam and Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey at SAIS in
Washington DC in 2001. He is author of two books.
