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Outstanding achievement by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences student Mehmet Çağrı Çalpur in the TÜBİTAK 1512 Program


Outstanding achievement by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences student Mehmet Çağrı Çalpur in the TÜBİTAK 1512 Program

Sabancı University Computer Science and Engineering doctorate student Mehmet Çağrı Çalpur successfully completed the second phase of the TÜBİTAK 1512 Entrepreneurship Support Program in Stages 2013, and was entitled to a capital grant of TL 100,000.

Held for the second time this year, the TÜBİTAK program received 1208 submissions for the first phase.  Advancing to the second stage were 441 business ideas, 377 of which were assessed and 140 were chosen for support.

Computer Science and Engineering doctorate student Mehmet Çağrı Çalpur's chosen business plan for “Systematic Testing of Multi-Threaded Software Systems” was developed as a result of the master’s thesis completed within SUSOFT – Software Engineering Research Group led by Assistant Professor Cemal Yılmaz of Sabancı University.  STA Technologies was founded as a startup by Mehmet Çağrı Çalpur, Assistant Professor Cemal Yılmaz and Inovent A.Ş., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sabancı University and the only technology commercialization company in Turkey, at the Gebze Organized Industrial Zone Technology Park according to this business plan, and is currently engaged in research for Test Automation Tools for Software Systems.