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Nuriye Özlem Özcan Şimşek

Özlem Şimşek graduated as a computer engineer from METU. She worked in the industry for years. In the meantime, she completed her master's degree at Bogazici University. Recently, she received her PhD from Computer Engineering at Bogazici University.


Research Interests

Her research field is the accurate prediction of diseases and disease-gene assotiations by using machine learning techniques on genomic data. This field is the future of health care and genomic treatments.


Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 2024
  • M.Sc. in System and Control Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 2010
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2005

Publications

  1. A Novel Gene Selection Method for Gene Expression Data for Cancer Type Classification
  2. Statistical Representation Models for Mutation Information within Genomic Data
  3. Fuzzy Support Vector Machines for ECG Arrhythmia Detection

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