Asst. Prof. ÜMİT DEMİRBAGA

Ümit Demirbaga is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at Ankara University, Türkiye. Before this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Data Science in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK, fully funded and employed by the university from 2022 to 2024. He was also a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL- EBI), UK, concurrent with his tenure at the University of Cambridge. He received his BSc in Electronic and Computer Education Department from Marmara University, Türkiye, in 2011 and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Newcastle University, UK, in 2017 and 2022, respectively. His research interests are big data analytics, cloud computing, distributed systems, machine learning, eXplainable AI, generative AI, digital twins, and data science. He has served as Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair, and Technical Program Committee member of various reputed conferences and workshops, including IEEE ICC, IEEE/ACM CCGrid, and IEEE/ACM UCC. Dr Demirbaga was awarded the Colin Graham Outstanding Performance Award with Best Team Project Award in his MSc in 2017 and received the 2022 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Scalable Computing. Additionally, he won first place at the TEKNOFEST Artificial Intelligence in Health Competition, University and Above-Level, Bioinformatics Analysis Development Category, Türkiye.