Current Projects


2026-2027

Projects (2026-2027)

Student(s) Advisor(s) Project title
Kerem Üzer, Yusuf Asım Demirhan Gulden Olgun Efficient Multimodal Retrieval for Video Question Answering with Adaptive Modality Selection
Kinda Mansour İbrahim Kutkut, Kuntay Yılmaz Hacer Yalim Keles Memory-efficient and Real-time Continuous Sign Language Translation
Zharasbek Bimagambetov Aydın Kaya Enhancing Prostate Region/Lesion Segmentation in CT/PET Imaging via Super-Resolution Techniques: A Comparative Study on Institutional and Benchmark Datasets
Deniz Süren, Mehmet Furkan Çalışkan, Mohamed Yahya Mansouri, Ömer Taha Gögen Tunca Doğan ContVAR: Protein Function Prediction with Contrastive Representation Learning
Beyzanur Güzel, Gizem Çelik Kayhan İmre A System-Level Simulation Framework for In-Network Computing on High-Performance Networks
Hayrunnisa Çiko, Yiğit Mete Tuygun Suleyman Tosun Evaluation of Structured and Unstructured DNN Pruning Across Heterogeneous GPU Architectures
Ecesu Aracı, Gayem Oran, Suda Naz Öztürk Adnan Özsoy, Cemil Zalluhoğlu AI-Driven Blockchain Prediction Markets for Collective Intelligence and Forecasting Accuracy
Ayşe Sena Erişmiş, Egemen Kozanlı, Zümral Yılmaz Ozgur Erkent Generative Motion Priors for Robust Navigation in Highly Constrained Environments: The BARN Challenge on Duckiebots
Ahmet Oğuzhan Kökülü, Alper Yavuz, Büşra Özlem Koç, Sıla Keskin Tunca Doğan Scaling CROSSBAR System for Real World Discovery: Knowledge-Graph Expansion, LLM Agents, and Grounded Biomedical Question Answering
Hüseyin Tenlik, Muhammet Emir Kılınç, Muhittin Arda Aksakal Ayça Kolukısa, Tuğba Erdoğan, Nebi Yılmaz, Aslı Taşgetiren Domain-Specific Modeling Infrastructure for an OSS Quality Assessment Tool
Ajla Frkic, Emre Bilgiç, Kürşat Hürkan Aydın Ayça Kolukısa, Tuğba Erdoğan, Nebi Yılmaz, Aslı Taşgetiren Automated Quality Evaluation Infrastructure for Open-Source Software

Projects (2025-2026)

Student(s) Advisor(s) Project title
Yusuf Demir, Arya Zeynep Mete Tunca Dogan Molecular Intelligence for Novel Discovery (MIND): A Universal Multi-Modal Foundation Model for Life’s Molecules
Buse Baser, Arda Ceylan Pinar Duygulu Sahin Gait analysis for measuring the performance of rehabilitation
Ezel Bayraktar, Alperen Demirci, Bora Dere Erkut Erdem Understanding Radiology Images with Large Multimodal Models (LLMs)
Leen Said, Rita Sulaiman Ozgur Erkent Traversable Path Finding by Using Past Experience
Mustafa Sahin, Begum Sude Uslu Gulden Olgun Deep inferring miRNA expression from scRNA-seq data
Yusuf Kucukoner, Sukriye Ozturk Adnan Ozsoy Blockchain Simulator
Bugra Simsek Adnan Ozsoy Consensus Algorithm Repository for Blockchain Research
Zaina Abushaban, Suleyman Yolcu Nazli Ikizler Cinbis Generalizable Vision Transformer Pipelines via Masked Autoencoder Pretraining

Timeline (2026-2027)

  • 9 March 2026: DREAM 2023-2024 application deadline
  • 28 June 2026: Progress surveys due
  • TBA: Progress reports due
  • TBA: Final project reports due

Timeline (2025-2026)

  • 10 March 2025: DREAM 2025-2026 application deadline
  • 4 July 2025: Progress surveys due
  • 22 September 2025: Progress reports due
  • 23 March 2026: Final project reports due
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