Assoc. Prof. YEŞİM AYDIN SON

Biography

Dr. Yeşim Aydın Son graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and completed her doctoral studies in Genome Sciences and Technologies at the University of TN, Knoxville, in 2006. She continued her postdoctoral studies in the Molecular Medicine Department at City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute. She has been a faculty member at the ODTU Graduate School of Informatics, Bioinformatics Program since 2010. She has been serving as the Head of Health Informatics since 2012. Dr. Aydın Son continues her research on diagnosing rare diseases based on genomic data analysis and developing risk models for complex diseases by optimizing different machine-learning approaches. A molecular-based diagnostic kit prototype has been proposed for early and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease using the latest developed machine learning model.