Aylin Korkmaz (IE’99) was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston by the digital media platform Women We Admire for her exemplary achievements in technology consulting. Ms. Korkmaz is a partner at Ernst & Young in the US and has more than 20 years of experience[Read More…]
Burçin Ressamoğlu (IR’94), CEO of Sodexo UK Advantage & Reward Services, has been listed among the 100 inspiring women leaders by Yahoo Finance and Involve UK and ranked ninth in the Heroes Women Role Model List due to her activities promoting gender equality and cultural diversity in the business world.[Read More…]
Dr. Gözde Doğan Yalçıner (IR ’01) received the US-based Lois Roth Foundation’s Gill Jacot-Guillarmod honorable mention award for her diplomatic achievements. She helped link the Turkish government, NGOs and academic institutions to advance cultural heritage preservation, a mission that Turkey and the US share. The diplomatic bridge she worked to[Read More…]
Bilkent graduate Mert Gür (CS ’17) founded the mobile gaming company Loop Games in 2019. Loop Games is the developer of Match 3D, Pathereum and Match Tile 3D. Loop Games, whose team includes seven entrepreneurial Bilkent graduates, Mert Gür (CS ’17), Burak Eserol (CS ’16), Selin Coşan (CS ’16), Cem[Read More…]
Professor Şennur Ulukuş, a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been appointed as the new chair of the Clark School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. She received her BS and MS degrees from Bilkent in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and[Read More…]
“Hotelier Middle East” has unveiled the 100 best GMs in the Middle East hotel industry in the publication’s General Manager Power 100 list, 2022. Department of Tourism and Hotel Management ’98 graduate Hakan Özel was selected as one of the top 10 most powerful hotel managers in the UAE. Mr.[Read More…]
The short animation film “Fish Out of Water” by Nur Özkaya (COMD ’21) has been listed on the long international watch list for Short Film Animation Oscar 2023 by Animation Magazine in the US. Although this is not a final nomination, it recognizes Özkaya’s achievement through qualifying awards and national[Read More…]
Two Bilkent alumni won awards for the best MSc thesis in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. The competition was organized by IEEE Computer Society Turkey, and the results were announced on October 15, 2022. The competition was created to identify and appreciate the best MSc thesis in the[Read More…]
Ekin Bernay, performance artist and 2008 graduate of the Department of Communication and Design, will be exhibiting “Kalp (Heart)” at Siyah Beyaz Maslak in İstanbul until November 22. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Ms. Bernay’s past performances and explores how and in what ways the objects left over[Read More…]
Egemen Ertürk, Department of Performing Arts graduate (’00), is writing and directing a new feature film project. Along with Didem Özkavukçu Aygün, also a graduate of the Department of Performing Arts, Mr. Ertürk will star in the film “2 Orta Şekerli İntihar.” Among the awards Mr. Ertürk has received are[Read More…]
