Prof. TOLGA CAN

Academic Positions 5

2017 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2011 - 2017 Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2007 - 2011 Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2006 - 2007 Lecturer

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2000 - 2005 Research Assistant

University of California, Santa Barbara, College Of Engineering, Computer Science

Managerial Experience 1

2007 - 2010 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering

Non Academic Experience 5

2007 - Continues Assistant Professor

METU, Assistant Professor
2006 - 2007 Instructor/Reader

METU, Instructor/Reader
2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Researcher
2001 - 2004 Assistant

University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant
1998 - 2000 Assistant

METU, Assistant

Supervised Theses 35

Construction and analysis of tissue/disease specific protein-proteininteraction networks by integrating large scale transcriptomedata with genome scale protein-protein interaction networks

CAN T. (Advisor)

A.BURÇAK(Student), Doctorate, 2022
Mini autonomous car architecture for urban driving scenarios

CAN T. (Advisor)

G.Karabulut(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Genome- and tissue-wide analysis of alternative polyadenylation events using clustering and feature learning methods

CAN T. (Advisor)

P.Yılmazer(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Shape models based on elliptic pdes, associated energies, and their applications in 2d and 3d

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), TARI Z. S. (Co-Advisor)

A.GENÇTAV(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Tools and techniques for assessing functional relevance of genomic loci

CAN T. (Advisor)

B.OTLU(Student), Doctorate, 2017
A layout algorithm for visualization of graph alignments

CAN T. (Advisor)

A.AKARSU(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
A multiplex primer design algorithm for target amplification of continuous genomic regions

CAN T. (Advisor)

A.RAŞİT(Student), Doctorate, 2016
Alternative polyadenylation dependent 3’-UTR changes in triple negative breast cancers

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), ERSON BENSAN A. E. (Co-Advisor)

T.TUNCER(Student), Doctorate, 2015
A multi-layered graphical model of the relation among SNPs, genes, and pathways based on subgraph search

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), AYDIN SON Y. (Co-Advisor)

G.ERSOY(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Pattern search in pathogenic bacterial proteins for localization and secretory systems

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), ÖZCENGİZ G. (Co-Advisor)

O.ÖZCAN(Student), Doctorate, 2015
Determination of the effect of polyadenylation SLR values on microarray data classification

CAN T. (Advisor)

Ü.ASLAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Identification of interaction sites of G protein-coupled receptors using machine learning techniques

CAN T. (Advisor)

M.EMRE(Student), Doctorate, 2014
A database query based solution for chemical compound and drug name recognition

CAN T. (Advisor)

Ç.ATA(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Integer linear programming based solutions for construction of biological networks

CAN T. (Advisor)

Ö.EREN(Student), Doctorate, 2014
Modeling of split step parabolic wave equation using the graphics processing unit

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), ŞENER C. (Co-Advisor)

S.SEKMEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
GPU accelerated radio wave propagation modeling using ray tracing

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), ŞENER C. (Co-Advisor)

A.ZUBAROĞLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Machine learning methods for using network based information in microRNA target prediction

CAN T. (Advisor)

M.SUALP(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Prediction of polyadenylation sites by probe level analysis of microarray data

CAN T. (Advisor)

Y.İLGÜNER(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Analysis of 3'UTR shortening events in breast cancer

CAN T. (Advisor)

O.BALOĞLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
A framework for gene co-expression network analysis of lung cancer

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), AYDIN SON Y. (Co-Advisor)

E.AKDEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Mining fungal effector candidates in biotrophic plant pathogens : rusts and mildews

CAN T. (Advisor)

S.UĞUR(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
SINEC: Large scale signaling network topology reconstruction using protein-protein interactions and RNAi data

CAN T. (Advisor)

S.HASHEMİKHABİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
Parallelization of functional flow to predict protein functions

CAN T. (Advisor)

E.AKKOYUN(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Machine learning methods for promoter region prediction

CAN T. (Advisor)

H.ARSLAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Resonctructing signaling pathways from RNAi data using genetic algorithms

CAN T. (Advisor)

E.SERDAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Identification of functionally orthologous protein groups in different species based on protein network alignment

CAN T. (Advisor)

Ö.NEBİL(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
A distributed graph mining framework based on mapreduce

CAN T. (Advisor)

S.ALKAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
A 3D topological tracking system for augmented reality

CAN T. (Advisor)

M.ERCAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
A new approach for better load balancing of visibility detection and target acquisition calculations

CAN T. (Advisor)

A.YİĞİT(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
A script based modular game engine framework for augmented reality applications

CAN T. (Advisor)

M.FURKAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Multi-resolution visualization of large scale protein networks enriched with gene ontology annotations

CAN T. (Advisor)

S.YAŞAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Prediction of protein-protein interactions from sequence using evolutionary relations of proteins and species

CAN T. (Advisor)

T.DOĞACAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Text classification in Turkish marketing domain and context-sensitive ad distribution

CAN T. (Advisor)

M.ENGİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Coevolution based prediction of protein-protein interactions with reduced training data

CAN T. (Advisor)

B.PAMUK(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
A classification system for the problem of protein subcellular localization

CAN T. (Co-Advisor), ATALAY M. V. (Co-Advisor)

G.ALAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2007

Academic and Administrative Experience

2017 - Continues Professor

2011 - 2017 Associate Professor

2007 - 2011 Assistant Professor

2006 - 2007 Lecturer

2000 - 2005 Research Assistant

2007 - 2010 Deputy Head of Department

2007 - Continues Assistant Professor

2006 - 2007 Instructor/Reader

2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral Researcher

2001 - 2004 Assistant

1998 - 2000 Assistant