Assoc. Prof. Cem Tekin received the 2023 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award, which is a university-wide award for sustained outstanding teaching and mentorship.
Cem Tekin joined Bilkent University in 2015. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2013. He also received his MS in Mathematics and MSE in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan in 2011 and 2010, respectively. Before attending the University of Michigan, he received his BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from METU in 2008. From February 2013 to January 2015, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. He received the Fred W. Ellersick Award for the best paper in MILCOM 2009, the Science Academy Association of Turkey Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) Award in 2019, the Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award in 2019, and the IEEE Turkey Chapter Research Incentive Award in 2020. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Cem Tekin’s research interests include bandit problems, reinforcement learning, data science for personalized medicine, multi-agent systems, stream mining, influence maximization and cognitive communications.
The Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award has been given annually since 1997. For more information about the award and a list of this year’s and previous winners, please follow this link.