Research Groups

Title Principal Investigator Description
Computer Networks and Wireless Technology Research Group       

The group focuses on the state of the art technology and applications in the computer networking area and conducts research reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. The main objective of the group is to foster practical issues as well as theoretical studies in computer networking in general and wireless communications in particular.  The research areas of the group include,...

Data Mining Research Group       

The main objectives for the group are:

  • To develop methods to facilitate understanding of highly dimensional complex data and provide software tools for real world applications including medical domain
  • To parallelize data mining techniques for distributed environments
  • To develop methods to create a semantic grid

 Areas of...

E-Government Research Group       

The e-Government Research Group aims to accelerate the “e-Transformation” period of Turkey by supporting the e-Government applications through initiating and execution of concepts and processes of the realization of “e-Transformation of Turkey” initiative and increasing the social benefits to be gained by bringing together Public Institutions, and Private Sector organizations under the...

Medical Informatics Glossary Work Group       

The Medical Informatics Glossary was developed by “Health Informatic Glossary” Work Group. The glossary can be seen at http://www.turkmia.org/sozluk_index.php.

The glossary will be further developped with support from “Turkish Medical Informatics Association” members. Members may...

Medical Informatics Laboratory - Medical Data Mining Research Group       

This laboratory aims to develop cutting-edge ways to acquire, represent, process, and manage knowledge and data related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences. The interdisciplinary research conducted within the laboratory focuses on: Telemedicine, Bioinformatics, Clinical Data Mining, Health Information systems, Models of Biological Systems, Biomedical Knowledge Management, and...

METU Child and Baby Lab       

The METU Child and Baby Lab is currently being established by Annette Hohenberger and CogSci students who are interested in the empirical study of language and cognitive development in infants and children.  We are in the process of conducting and/or planning research on Turkish language acquisition (vowel harmony, word stress, word segmentation, word learning), cognitive development (...

METU Neuro Lab       

The METU Neuro Lab was established by the METU Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group lead by Asst. Prof. Didem Gökçay. Researches of the group can be seen at http://brain.ii.metu.edu.tr/. The research group investigates functional neuroanatomy as well as computational neuroanatomy.  Some of the funded projects include “...

METU Turkish Corpus Project        

The goal of the METU Turkish Corpus Project was to develop a corpus of Turkish texts. The Project was lead by Asst. Prof. Bilge Say and has been successfully completed.  The METU Turkish Corpus is now a collection of 2 million words of post-1990 written Turkish samples and represents 10 genres. At most two samples from one source have been used, where each sample contains 2000 words. The...

METU Turkish Discourse Resource Project       

Supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), the METU – Turkish Discourse Resource Project is a research project which aims to develop a corpus annotated with information related to discourse structure of the Turkish language. The project team is lead by Prof. Deniz Zeyrek and includes the following members: Assoc Prof. Cem Bozşahin, Assoc. Prof. Ümit...

METU- MedImage Medical Image Analysis Lab       

METU-MedImage Medical Image Analysis Lab is involved in research activities in an array of 2D and 3D Medical Image Analysis applications. The main areas of focus are Automatic and Semi-Automatic Image Segmentation, Rigid and Nonrigid Image Alignment (Registration), Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Content-Based Image Retrieval and PACS. Some of the recent projects are: “Image-based retrieval system...

METU-NEURO Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab       

METU-NEURO Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab is involved in an array of research activities that range from cognitive task design and functional neuroanatomy to structural neuroanatomy. Researches of the group can be seen at http://brain.ii.metu.edu.tr/. The main area of focus in cognitive research is the interaction...

Software Management Research Group       

The Software Management Research Group was founded to target specialized software management domain knowledge. The group targets to disseminate the domain knowledge on principles, processes, methods and techniques required to manage the development and evolution of software systems, to lead the advancement of software practice in Turkey, and to bring forth experts and scientists in the field...

Software Technologies Research Group       

The Software Technologies Research Group mainly addresses software engineering and related fields. The group promotes collaboration of researchers and experts in the field to disseminate knowledge and leverage software engineering practice in software industry. The group members actively participate in a multitude of funded research activities and carry out several research and development...

Virtual Reality and Computer Vision Research Group       

The Virtual Reality and Computer Vision Group targets to conduct research on the cutting-edge topics of virtual reality and computer vision. Research projects vary from human perspective oriented evaluation of systems to development of new algorithm and methods for technical issues. The group frequently conducts joint research with world-wide institutions. Our research is directed mainly...