Honors & Awards | Year 2021

In 2021, our faculty members and students won a total of 11 awards, 6 of which are national and 5 are international.

• Computer Engineering PhD Program 2019 graduate Dr. Müge Özçevik and her thesis supervisor Prof. Dr. Berk Canbek were awarded the 2021 IEEE Turkey PhD Thesis Award for her thesis titled “Traffic and Mobility Aware Delay Modeling for Software-Defined Networks (SDN)”.

• Prof. Dr. Zehra Çataltepe won the 2021 award in the field of technology at the Woman to Watch 2021 (Fark Yaratan Kadınlar) ceremony organized by MediaCat for the 9th time. 

• The paper titled "Deep Convolutional Feature-based Gait Recognition Using Silhouettes and RGB Images" by Prof. Dr. Hazım K. Ekenel (Deparment of Computer Engineering) and Selin Gök Işık (Aselsan Academy graduate student) was awarded the Best Paper Award at UBMK 2021 (6th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering).

• TexRobots Team (Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Fidan Khalilbayli, Ömür Fatmanur Erzurumluoğlu) from ITU Soft Sensors Lab  led by  Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İnce (Department of Computer Engineering) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay (Department of Textile Engineering) won the first prize in the Biotechnology and Innovation Competition at TEKNOFEST 2021 with their project titled "Texrobot for Hand Paralysis Rehabilitation".

• SofTex Team (Uğur Ayvaz, Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Ali Emre Öztaş)  from ITU Soft Sensors Lab  led by  Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İnce (Department of Computer Engineering) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay (Department of Textile Engineering) won the third prize in the Communication Technologies Competition at TEKNOFEST 2021 with the project titled "Real-Time Activity and Heart Rate Detection Using Textile-Based Sensors".

• Res. Asst. Doğukan Arslan from İTÜ NLP Research Group led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülşen Eryiğit (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering) won the third prize in the Turkish Natural Language Processing Competition at TEKNOFEST 2021 with his project titled "The Expert Who Allows Easy Access to Supreme Court Decisions with Semantic Similarity Methods".

• The study titled "Benchmarking Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce on Big Data Classification" by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Çakmak (Department of Computer Engineering) with Taha Tekdoğan (ITU-Aselsan Academiy Computer Engineering Graduate Program) was awarded with the best oral presentation award in  5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (ICCBDC 2021).

• The work titled "Recurrent Multigraph Integrator Network for Predicting the Evolution of Population-Driven Brain Connectivity Templates", written by Computer Engineering undergraduate student Oytun Demirbilek with his advisor, Dr. Islem Rekik, was entitled to be presented at MICCAI 2021. Oytun Demirbilek was awarded the MICCAI student travel award to present his work.

• In the Masked Face Recognition Competition (MFR 2021), organized by the International Joint Biometrics Conference (IJCB 2021), Prof. Dr. Hazım K. Ekenel and his students ranked second among 10 teams from 9 different countries, and ranked first among academic institutions.

• The paper titled "Information Extraction from Text Intensive and Visually Rich Banking Documents" by Berke Oral (Computer Engineering MSc Student) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülşen Eryiğit (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering) was awarded the best paper award of 2020 in MSc. level  by Information Processing & Management Journal.

• The study titled "CLAN: A Robust Control Link for Aerial Mesh Networks in Contested Environments", carried out by Fırat Rozkan Kılıç and Mehmet Özgen Özdoğan from ITU-Aselsan Academy Master Program, together with their academic advisors Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berk Canberk and Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökhan Seçinti was awarded the best paper at EAI 7th International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems 2021 (EAI INISCOM 2021).