Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) members receive TÜBİTAK Career Development Program 3501 support for their project.

Implementer Dr. Esra Koca and advisor Dr. Nilay Noyan won the support with their project titled “Stochastic programming problems with restricted recourse”.

The TÜBİTAK Career Development Program 3501 aims to encourage scientists with PhDs at the start of their careers through project support. 

Seven projects developed by Sabancı University were chosen to receive support from the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program. The TÜBİTAK Scientific and Technological Research Support Program (1001) aims to encourage projects on new knowledge generation, scientific advances and solutions to technological problems.

Projects supported for the second term of 2018 within the TÜBİTAK Program to Support Scientific and Technological Research Projects (1001):

“Hidrojel-destekli 3B biyobasım yöntemi ile kişiye özgü damar greftlerin gelişirilmesi” with Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) Members Dr. Bahattin Koç as implementer and Dr. Batu Erman as advisor.

“Polioksazolin-amin bazlı termal geciktirici katalizör sistemlerin hazırlanması ve tek bileşenli epoksi reçineler ile kullanılması, bu sistemlerin reçinelerin kürlenme özellikleri üzerine etkilerinin araştırılması ve tek bileşenli epoksi reçinesi ve karbon fiber içeren prepregler hazırlanması” with Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (TÜMER) Researchers Dr. Bekir Dızman as implementer, Dr. Serkan Ünal as researcher, and FENS Members Dr. Mehmet Yıldız and Dr. Yusuf Menceloğlu as advisors.

“Kafes-Temelli İleri Kriptografik Yapıtaşlarının Gerçeklenmesi ve Mahremiyet-Korumalı Uygulamalarda Kullanılması” with FENS Members Dr. Erkay Savaş as implementer and Dr. Erdinç Öztürk as researcher.

“5G mobil telefonlar için örüntü yönü döndürülebilen anten dizisi ve SPDT MEMS anahtarlı örüntü oluşturma ağı entegrasyonu” with FENS Members Dr. İbrahim Tekin as implementer and Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı as researcher.

“Möbius Değişmez ve Dirichlet Analitik Fonksiyon Uzayları, Bileşke Operatörler ve Carleson Ölçüleri” with FENS Members Dr. Nihat Gökhan Göğüş as implementer and Dr. Turgay Bayraktar as researcher.

“mm-dalga Radar ve Geniş Bantlı İletişim Uygulamaları için 2-GSPS 8-bit Asenkron Ayrık Zamanlı Ardışık Yaklaşımlı Örneksel Sayısal Çevirici (ADC)” with FENS Members Dr. Yaşar Gürbüz as implementer and Dr. Ömer Ceylan as researcher.

“Fermi/GBM Verileri ile Tetiklememiş Geçici Gama Isını Olaylarının Derinlemesine Araştırılması ve İncelenmesi” with Foundations Development Program Lecturers Dr. Yuki Kaneko as implementer and Dr. Aslıhan Muazzez Ünsal as researcher.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) members Özgür Gürbüz Ünlüyurt and İbrahim Tekin won the 2018 Elginkan Foundation Technology Award.  

The winners of the 13th "Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards" endowed by the Elginkan Foundation were announced. 

FENS Members Özgür Gürbüz Ünlüyurt and İbrahim Tekin won the award with their project titled "Full Duplex Radio Design, Implementation and Medium Access Control". 

Faculty members will receive their awards at a ceremony to be held at a later date.

"Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards" are given by the Elginkan Foundation annually to support research and studies on Turkish culture and technology. Recipients of Technology Awards are recognized for their genuine contribution to technology by developing manufacturing processes based on new products, techniques or technologies.

An article titled "Left-Tail Momentum: Underreaction to Bad News, Costly Arbitrage and Equity Returns" coauthored by Sabancı Üniversitesi School of Management Faculty Members Yiğit Atılgan, Özgür Demirtaş, A. Doruk Günaydın and Georgetown University – Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business Faculty Member Turan G. Bali has been accepted to Journal of Financial Economics Magazine and will be published soon.

This article documents a cross-sectional negative relation between downside risk metrics such as value-at-risk and future equity returns for stocks traded in the U.S. and other international markets. The study provides a behavioral explanation for this anomaly and shows that retail investors underestimate the persistence of downside risk and overprice securities that have experienced large recent losses. Thus, the prices of stocks that are located in the left-tail of the return distribution continue to fall in the future resulting in a phenomenon that we term as left-tail momentum.

Journal of Financial Economics Magazine

Journal of Financial Economics is an elite academic journal in the field of finance and economics. It is one of the 50 journals that are used to calculate Financial Times rankings in the field of management. Many Nobel Economics Prize winners have contributed and continue to contribute to the journal.

OpsGenie, a technology company co-founded by Sabancı University Computer Science and Engineering 2004 graduate Sezgin Küçükkaraaslan was acquired by the technology conglomerate Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) for 295 million US dollars. OpsGenie became the first Turkish technology company to be sold at this scale.

Founded in Ankara in 2012, OpsGenie has nearly 4000 clients. OpsGenie sells a software that warns engineers against software and website interruptions, and notifies the right teams in case of an interruption to ensure a quick response time.

In case of an issue with a website or application, OpsGenie sends text messages or automated phone calls to designated personnel. If a recipient is unavailable, the notification is sent to alternates or the whole team. Meanwhile, OpsGenie also ensures the coordination of monitoring (NewRelic, Nagios etc), ticketing (Jira, Zendesk etc), and collaboration (Slack, HipChat etc.) tools involved in the process. When the issue is resolved, designated personnel are sent updates about the issue, and may receive reports regarding the timeline of problem resolution.

The OpsGenie alert system will work with Atlassian’s Statuspage, a downtime communication tool for employees and clients, as well as Jira Ops, an IT service management product that helps IT employees minimize downtime and service interruptions. Jira Ops will help IT employees monitor network interruptions, warn the right people to resolve the issue, and start a Slack chatroom to coordinate efforts.

The software developed by Atlassian for software engineers include Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. Seeking to expand its IT market with products aimed at operations teams, the company acquired OpsGenie to grow its suite of products and benefit from OpsGenie's market knowhow.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program faculty member Selçuk Artut opened his first solo exhibition, “Habituation” in Berlin.  The exhibition will be available for viewing between January 18 and April 12, 2019 at the Zilberman Gallery, Berlin. 

Selçuk Artut’s oeuvre deals with ontological questions through the use of sound art, interactive technologies and artifi cial intelligence. The artist’s interest lies in the minor differences that would claim changes, swells of time, in which Artut works with codes and computational algorithms. Artist’s sleek metal sheet sculptures hide a world with wires, which needs a quick glance to what is hidden, supporting his questions on perceptive reality. 

Inspired by Barry Truax’s book Acoustic Communication, the software installations and sculptures of the exhibition explore the notion of habituation—the ceasing response to a stimulus as a result of adaptations of brain to sound. In some pieces, Artut uses random algorithms to disturb a possible habituation. In Habituation of Dishabituation (2019) Artut deals with the fact that constant disruption of a certain sound or image (dehabituation) might also lead to habituation. Similarly, what is perceived as repetition that causes habituation in the fi rst glance, includes various shifts and differences. Playing with such ideas, the piece Isomorphism (2019), consisting of sound bars, brings us into a soundscape, a new layer of architecture in the belle-epoque space of the gallery.  

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by Lotte Laub, and essays by Selçuk Artut and Siegfried Zielinski.  

Times Higher Education (THE) revealed the 2019 Emerging Economies University Rankings. The ranking considered 442 universities in 43 countries determined by THE.

Sabancı University entered THE's Emerging Economies University Rankings in 20th place, becoming the best among the 23 Turkish universities on the list.

Similar to the World University Rankings, the THE Emerging Economies University Rankings list uses a methodology that covers Teaching, Research, Citations, International Outlook and Industry Income using 13 performance indicators. A key difference is that the "Industry Income" and "International Outlook" categories carry more weight compared to World University Rankings due to the rankings being specific to emerging economies.

Turkish universities on THE's Emerging Economies University Rankings 2019 were Sabancı (20th), Koç (26th), Bilkent and Boğaziçi (71st), ITU (74th), Hacettepe (99th), METU (114th), and Eskişehir Anadolu (172nd). Furthermore, the Akdeniz, Erciyes, Gebze Technical and Istanbul Universities were in the 201st to 250th range; Atılım, Bahçeşehir, Çukurova and İzmir High Technology Universities were in the 251st to 300th range; TOBB Economics and Technology University in the 301st to 350th range; and Ankara, Dokuz Eylül, Gazi, Marmara, Ondokuz Mayıs and Yeditepe Universities in the 351st and above.

Please click here for the complete THE Emerging Economies University Rankings.

January 15th ELAE result code explanations are as follows:

The new administrative period of our university has begun with the appointment of our President Prof. Dr. Yusuf Leblebici and his three new Vice Presidents. The Vice President in Charge of Education, Prof. Dr. Cem Güneri; the Vice President in Charge of Research, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yıldız and the Vice President in Charge of Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, Prof. Dr. Fuat Keyman; along with our President, will direct and coordinate the university’s new ventures in the coming period.

The Vice President in Charge of Education, Prof. Dr. Cem Güneri will be responsible for:

• Determining the university’s policies and focus areas for education, and
• Collaborating with the university’s upper management for the distribution of resources,
• The coordination of education between the university’s faculties and institutes,
• The creation and perpetuation of graduate, post-graduate and continuing education programs,
• Managing student services and student relations,
• Providing good quality human resources necessary for achieving the university’s academic goals.

 The Vice President in Charge of Research, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yıldız will be responsible for:

• Determining the university’s research policies and focus areas for research,
• Collaborating with the university’s upper management for the distribution of resources,
• The coordination of research goals within the faculties and centers,
• Working towards developing the amount and quality of the university’s research projects,
• Providing good quality human resources necessary for achieving the university’s research goals.

 The Vice President in Charge of Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, Prof. Dr. Fuat Keyman will be responsible for:

• The formation of the university’s units (faculties, centers) and processes in a harmonious and transparent manner, as well as for the creation of the institutional infrastructure needed to enable this,
• The united coordination of IPM, ERG, SU-GENDER centers, as well as the coordination between the research conducted in these centers with the graduate programs,
• The coordination between EDU + Professional Programs (within Sabancı University and new development),
• Contributing towards the university’s academic and administrative development in line with global standards and strategic goals, as well as the establishment of its policies,
• The contribution towards the national and international representation of the university, as well the coordination of the International Relations Office for the development of the university’s branding, recognizability and relations.

The short resumés of the Vice Presidents can be accessed here. We wish the whole management success in the new period!