Two TÜBİTAK Projects Worth 500 Thousand Lira from Bahçeşehir Engineering

According to the results announced on 2 July, faculty members of the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Engineering have been awarded full financial support from TÜBİTAK for 2 research projects with a total value of approximately 500 thousand TL.

One of the projects is led by Assist. Prof. Dr. H. Fatih Uğurdağ from the Department of Computer Engineering. His project is on the automatic design of computer chips by computers, and Intersil, a company from Silicon Valley, and Boğaziçi University will also assist with the project.

The other project is led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Eroğlu Erdem from Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Her project is on the automatic recognition of facial expressions by computers using computer vision techniques and their use as a human-computer interaction tool.

This year, TÜBİTAK found 30 projects in Electrical, Electronics and Informatics (EEEAG) worthy of support. The TÜBİTAK EEEAG research committee covers 100% of the work of our Electrical and Electronics, Energy Systems, Computer and Software Engineering departments and 50% of the work of our Mechatronics Engineering department. In all of Türkiye, there are 8 universities that made it into these 30 projects with more than one project.

The Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Engineering has previously secured 5 TÜBİTAK research projects with a total value of millions of lira.