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Umut Tosun (PhD)

Adjunct: Computer Engineering

Dr. Umut Tosun received his undergraduate degree from Izmir Institute of Technology Computer Engineering Department, his master’s degree from Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department, and his doctorate from Middle East Technical University Computer Engineering Department. After working as a software engineer at Cybersoft, Aselsan, Argela and Siemens companies, he worked as an assistant professor at BaÅŸkent University Computer Engineering Department between 2013-2015. After that, he worked as a software engineer at Anca Motion in Australia. Prof. Dr. Umut Tosun worked on Database Management Systems and Distributed Database Design in his MSc and PhD thesis studies. Our faculty member continues his research on big data, computer networks and security, internet of things and blockchain.

  • Advanced Databases
  • Algorithms
  • Programming Languages
  • Web Programming
  • Software Engineering
  • Data Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • U. Tosun, ” A New Tool for Automated Transformation of Quadratic Assignment Problem Instances to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation Models”, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 201, no. 1, 2022.
  • U. Tosun, “A New Set of Pivot Elimination Schemes for Increasing the Query Performance”, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, vol. 30, no. 2, 2016.
  • U. Tosun, “On the Performance of Parallel Hybrid Algorithms for the Solution of the Quadratic Assignment Problem”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 39, 2015.
  • U. Tosun, “A Novel Indexing Scheme for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 54, 2015.
  • U. Tosun, T. Dokeroglu, A. Cosar, “A Robust Island Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem,” International Journal of Production Research, vol. 51, no. 14, 2013.
  • PhD in Computer Engineering, METU
  • Master of Computer Engineering and Science, Bilkent University
  • Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology

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