Ercüment Çiçek

Bilkent University, Ankara

Lecture Title:

"Machine Learning Models for Predicting Drug Synergy and Side Effects"

Short bio: Ercument Cicek earned his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Sabanci University, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. During his Ph.D., he visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to work on gene discovery algorithms for Autism Spectrum Disorder. After graduation, he worked as a Lane Fellow in Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University till 2015. Since then, he has been an assistant professor in the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University and is an adjunct faculty member in the Computational Biology Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Visit http://ercumentcicek.com for details.