Tolga Can

Professor Department of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

Office: B-109             Department of Computer Engineering, METU Phone: +90 (312) 210 55 37 e-mail:

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Citations in Google Scholar

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Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. (2004), Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara.
M.S. (2003), Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara.
B.S. (1998), Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University.

Current Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics, Algorithms, and Graph Theory

Courses this Semester (2021-2022 Spring):

• CENG 222: Statistical Methods for Computer Engineering (Section 1)
  • Syllabus
  • First meeting on March 8, Tuesday at 9:40AM in BMB-1.
• CENG 465: Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • Syllabus
  • First meeting on March 7, Monday at 10:40AM in BMB-5.
  • Note that CENG students will be able to take the course via the TOKEN system.
  • Non-CENG students will be able to add the course during the Add-Drops. I will collect a list of students at the first meeting and non-CENG students who want to take the course should attend the first meeting.
• SE 542: Human Computer Interaction (Second degree programs only)
  • Syllabus
  • First meeting on March 12, Saturday at 16:00 in BMB-5.
  • Note that first degree students, i.e., undergraduates, or grads in MS with thesis and PhD programs cannot take this course.
• CENG 792: Technical Communication for Computer Engineers - II (Second degree programs only)
  • Syllabus
  • First meeting on March 12, Saturday at 15:00 in BMB-5.

Past Courses:

• CENG 111: Introduction to Computer Engineering Concepts F'19 (Course Web Site)
• CNG 213: Data Structures (S'13) -- Syllabus
CENG 229: C Programming (F'18)
• CNG 230: Introduction to C Programming (S'13) -- Syllabus
• CNG 315: Algorithms (F'19) (F'18) (Summer 2012)
• CENG 140: C Programming (S'11) (S'12) (S'14)
• CENG 222: Statistical Methods for Computer Engineering (S'21) (S'20) (S'19) (S'17)
• CENG 301: Algorithms and Data Structures (S'16)
• CENG 465: Introduction to Bioinformatics (S'21) (S'20) (S'19) (F'17) (F'16) (F'15) (F'14) (F'13) (S'12) (S'11) (S'10) (S'09) (S'08) (S'07) (S'06)
• CENG/CNG 477: Introduction to Computer Graphics (F'21) (F'19) (F'18) (F'16) (S'16)(F'15) (F'14) (F'13) (F'10) (F'09) (F'07) (F'06) Course Website
• CENG 707: Data Structures and Algorithms (F'11)
• CENG 732: Computer Animation (S'07)
• CENG 734: Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics F'21 (S'15) (F'11) (F'10) (F'08) (F'06)
• CENG 570/773: Computational Geometry (F'20) (S'18) (S'17) (S'16) (S'15) (S'14) (F'11)
• SE 542/SE 705: Human Computer Interaction (S'21) (S'19) (F'17) (F'16) (F'15) (F'14) (F'13) (S'12) (S'11) (S'10) (S'09) (F'07) (S'06)
• BIN 501: Introduction to Bioinformatics (F'09)
• BIN 504: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling for Bioinformatics (F'10)

Current Students

• Gungor Budak, Ph.D. student, Computer Engineering.
• Burak Demiralay, Ph.D. student, Medical Informatics.
• Arzu Burcak Sonmez (Senkal), Ph.D. student, Medical Informatics.
• Mine Yoldas (Orhon), Ph.D. student, Medical Informatics.

Past Students

Projects:

• TUBITAK 1001 Project: Local topological feature vector based comparison of integrated biological networks Source code and dataset repository at GitHub
  
• SYSPATHO:EU-FP7 Research Project, New Algorithms for Host Pathogen Systems Biology
• TUBITAK Career Program Grant: Statistical Methods for Construction and Analysis of Genome-Scale Networks
  
• LSMS: Level Set methods for Molecular Surface Generation
• CTSS: Protein Structure Alignment Using Local Geometrical Features
• FPV: Fast Protein Visualization Using Java 3D