A Proud Achievement by a BAU Medical Student

A method that 24-year-old Enis Çağatay Yılmaz, who is continuing his medical education as an intern doctor in Istanbul, helped develop, which uses artificial intelligence to assess the usability of a water source much faster and more cheaply than conventional methods, has been published as an article in the world-renowned scientific journal 'Light: Science & Applications', published by Nature in the UK.
Born in İzmir in 1996, Enis Çağatay Yılmaz graduated from the city's science high school and ranked 3rd in Türkiye in the MF-3 field of the 2014 LYS exam. Having initially wanted to become an engineer because of his passion for research, Yılmaz later changed course to medicine and entered the Bahçeşehir University School of Medicine to pursue his dreams. During his preparatory year, Yılmaz went to the US for nine months of language training. In his first year of medical school, Yılmaz stayed active in social activities inside and outside the university and organized student congresses; in his 2nd year, he was accepted for a summer internship at Dr. Teng's laboratory at Harvard University. Having had the opportunity to work with a confocal microscope in the laboratory, which focuses on neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury, Yılmaz, in his 3rd year, earned the right to a one-month internship in a cardiology department in Italy following a nationwide exam organized by the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations Türkiye (TURKMSIC), of which he is a member.

HE WAS THE ONLY MEDICAL STUDENT
After his training in Genoa, Yılmaz spent three months as the only medical student in a laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, led by Prof. Dr. Aydoğan Özcan, whose members are engineers and which focuses on microscopes and artificial intelligence. Having spent the summer of his 4th year working on a project at Prof. Dr. Özcan's laboratory at UCLA and doing internships in the otolaryngology and dermatology departments in Taiwan, Yılmaz is now, as an intern doctor, making steady progress toward his goal of specializing in radiology.

FEATURED IN A WORLD-RENOWNED JOURNAL
Despite his young age, Yılmaz received the first reward for his efforts around the world on 10 July 2020. The method Yılmaz helped develop, which uses artificial intelligence to assess the usability of a water source much faster and more cheaply than conventional methods, was published in the world-renowned scientific journal 'Light: Science & Applications', published by Nature in the UK. Making his family and professors proud with his success, Yılmaz said: "The method we developed is a very important study for public health worldwide. Think of it this way: there is a water source. Tests are carried out to understand how clean the water is. These take a long time; results can take 2-3 days. Our method, however, reveals how clean a water source is in a short time using artificial intelligence. It is both cheaper and easier than standard methods. It is a method with great potential. I am very happy to have achieved such great success at the first step. I am especially pleased that it is an important study that will contribute to human health, particularly in these days when we face the risk of coronavirus and in similar situations."