Adjunct Faculty

A. Ercument Cicek

Assistant Professor Bilkent University

Work Phone: +90-312-290-6941 Work Email: cicek@cs.cmu.edu Work Email: cicek@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cicek/

Biographical Info

Case Western Reserve University
Thesis Advisor: Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

Postdoctoral Advisors: Ziv Bar-Joseph and Kathryn Roeder

Google Scholar

Ercument received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. During his Ph.D. training, he worked on algorithms to detect signatures in omics data for complex diseases using information theory and biochemical networks. He also worked on design and development of online systems and online biological databases such as PathCase. After working mainly on the metabolome and the transcriptome, currently, he is interested in developing methods to analyze the genome to understand the mechanisms of genomic perturbations leading to disease.

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