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Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University Academic Profile
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Engineering Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering
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ORCID 0000-0001-8762-7233 Web of Science AAB-9242-2021 YÖK Academic 97426499B8D32386
Research fields
Engineering › Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords
Yapay Zeka Makine Öğrenmesi Görüntü İşleme
Contact
Topkapı Yerleşkesi - Merkezefendi Mah. Mevlevihane Cad. No:27 Zeytinburnu/İstanbul
Scopus
7
h-index
231
citations
45
publications
09.10.2026 · computed
OpenAlex
8
h-index
272
citations
64
publications
24.09.2026
PubMed
0
h-index
0
citations
3
publications
09.10.2026 · computed
Articles
21
WoS 16 · ESCI 1 · Scopus 0 · TR Index 4
International index publications
65
institution-affiliated 54 · open access 43
Citations (source max.)
272
Scopus 231 · WoS 0 · OpenAlex 272
Papers
18
congress / symposium
Books · book chapters
0 · 0
books / book chapters
Projects
3
principal investigator 1 · TÜBİTAK 3 · ongoing 1
Thesis supervision
1
doctoral 0 · ongoing 0
Patents · awards · editorships
0 · 0 · 0
artistic activities 0

Academic output by year

YÖKSİS

Article indexes

YÖKSİS index declaration

Citations by publication year

International index · source max.

Peer comparison

All time · percentile: share below the researcher · unit = Faculty of Engineering
MetricValueUnit percentileInstitution percentileRank
Articles
unit avg. 16.2 · institution avg. 11.5
 21
%76
%85
 57 / 390
WoS articles
unit avg. 11.5 · institution avg. 2.4
 16
%80
%97
 13 / 390
Papers
unit avg. 14.4 · institution avg. 9.9
 18
%80
%84
 59 / 390
Books / book chapters
unit avg. 1.3 · institution avg. 5.0
 0
%0
%0
 205 / 390
Projects
unit avg. 3.0 · institution avg. 1.5
 3
%71
%83
 51 / 390
Thesis supervision
unit avg. 4.9 · institution avg. 4.7
 1
%64
%66
 119 / 390
International index publications
unit avg. 78.0 · institution avg. 29.8
 65
%84
%92
 30 / 390
Citations (source max.)
unit avg. 351.4 · institution avg. 90.8
 272
%76
%92
 30 / 390
h-index (source max.)
unit avg. 6.0 · institution avg. 2.2
 8
%73
%91
 27 / 390

Co-author network

Intra-institutional co-authors (coloured, clickable) and external authors from YÖKSİS author lists (grey) · line width = number of joint works
2026
A Large-Scale Peripheral Blood Cell Dataset for Automated Hematological Analysis
Yarıkan Atıf Eren,Örer Can,Akyıldız Volkan,KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA,Palaoğlu Kerim Erhan,İNCİR SAİD,BAYSAL KEMAL,ÖZÇELİK CEMAL,KİRAZ BERNA,KİRAZ ALPER
Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-026-06761-y
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 3 citations Scopus: 3 citations
2026
ADOP-NAS: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for digital pathology via diverse initialization and adaptive mutation
KOÇ SEMİHA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Computers and Electrical Engineering, 136 · DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2026.111216
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 0 citations Scopus: 0 citations
2026
Automated identification of cardiac amyloidosis using cross-modal neural networks on $$[^{99m} \text {Tc}] \text { Tc}$$-Pyrophosphate SPECT imaging and clinical data
BATI FATİH,Bıçakçı Nilüfer,AYDIN MUSA,KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA
The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging · DOI: 10.1007/s10554-026-03778-7
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 1 citations Scopus: 1 citations
2026
Hybridtransformer: multi-feature token fusion of deep cnn features and handcrafted descriptors for white blood cell classification
HOŞAVCI REYHAN,DİK SÜMEYYE ZÜLAL,KAYA AKÇELİK ZELİHA,ARAR MAHMUD ESAD,ARAM KADİR,KAYA SAMET,KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA
Multimedia Systems, 32 · DOI: 10.1007/s00530-026-02571-9
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 0 citations Google Scholar: 0 citations Scopus: 0 citations
2026
Neural architecture search for 3D biomedical image classification
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,AYDIN MUSA,KİRAZ ALPER
Multimedia Systems, 32 · DOI: 10.1007/s00530-026-02404-9
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 1 citations Scopus: 2 citations
2026
TripletMAML: A metric-based model-agnostic meta-learning algorithm for few-shot classification
GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ,ÖZKAN İSMAİL TAHA SAMED,KARAKUŞ OSMAN FURKAN
Progress in Artificial Intelligence · DOI: 10.1007/s13748-026-00430-2
ESCI International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 0 citations Scopus: 0 citations
2025
MOLiNAS: multi-objective lightweight neural architecture search for whole-slide multi-class blood cell segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,AYDIN MUSA,KİRAZ ALPER
Health Information Science and Systems, 13 · DOI: 10.1007/s13755-025-00399-7
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 2 citations Scopus: 2 citations
2025
Multi-teacher based knowledge distillation for retinal vessel segmentation
Eid Abdullah,AYDIN MUSA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Health Information Science and Systems, 13(1) · DOI: 10.1007/s13755-025-00356-4
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 3 citations OpenAlex: 2 citations
2025
Neural Architecture Search for biomedical image classification: A comparative study across data modalities
KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA,KİRAZ BERNA,KİRAZ ALPER
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 160 · DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2024.103064
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 5 citations OpenAlex: 6 citations
2024
MedSegBench: A comprehensive benchmark for medical image segmentation in diverse data modalities
KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA
Scientific Data, 11 · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04159-2
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 36 citations OpenAlex: 33 citations
2024
UKnow-Net: Knowledge-Enhanced U-Net for Improved Retinal Vessel Segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ
Gazi University Journal of Science Part A: Engineering and Innovation, 11 · DOI: 10.54287/gujsa.1575986
TR INDEX National Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 2 citations
2023
Differential evolution-based neural architecture search for brain vessel segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ, KİRAZ BERNA, KOÇAK TUĞÇE, AYDIN MUSA, ÖZKAN ESRA, VURAL ATAY, KİRAZ ALPER, CAN BURHANETTİN
ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL-JESTECH, 46, s. 13 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jestch.2023.101502
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 24 citations Scopus: 25 citations
2023
Differential evolution-based neural architecture search for brain vessel segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,KOÇAK TUĞÇE,AYDIN MUSA,ÖZKAN ESRA,VURAL ATAY,KİRAZ ALPER,CAN BURHANETTİN
Elsevier BV, 46 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jestch.2023.101502
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 24 citations Scopus: 25 citations
2023
Evolutionary Architecture Optimization for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, 27 · DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2023.3314981
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 26 citations OpenAlex: 27 citations
2023
Novel Surrogate Measures based on a Similarity Network for Neural Architecture Search
KUŞ ZEKİ,AKKAN CAN,GÜLCÜ AYLA
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) · DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3252887
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 1 citations OpenAlex: 2 citations
2023
Novel Surrogate Measures Based on a Similarity Network for Neural Architecture Search
KUŞ ZEKİ, AKKAN CAN, GÜLCÜ AYLA
IEEE Access, 11 · DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3252887
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 1 citations OpenAlex: 2 citations
2023
Retina Damar Segmentasyonunda Sinir Mimarisi Arama için Farklı Kodlama Yöntemlerinin Karşılaştırılması
KUŞ ZEKİ, KİRAZ BERNA
Marmara University, 35 · DOI: 10.7240/jeps.1335157
TR INDEX National Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 0 citations
2022
Bi-criteria simulated annealing for the curriculum-based course timetabling problem with robustness approximation
AKKAN CAN,GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Journal of Scheduling · DOI: 10.1007/s10951-022-00722-0
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed Scopus: 9 citations OpenAlex: 11 citations
2021
Minimum penalty perturbation heuristics for curriculum-based timetables subject to multiple disruptions
AKKAN CAN,GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Computers & Operations Research, 132 · DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105306
SCI International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 12 citations Scopus: 7 citations
2021
Minimum penalty perturbation heuristics for curriculum-based timetables subject to multiple disruptions
AKKAN CAN, GÜLCÜ AYLA, KUŞ ZEKİ
Computers & Operations Research, 132 · DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105306
SCI International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 12 citations Scopus: 7 citations
2021
Multi-objective simulated annealing for hyper-parameter optimization in convolutional neural networks
GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
PeerJ Computer Science, 7 · DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.338
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 29 citations Scopus: 25 citations
2020
Hyper-Parameter Selection in Convolutional Neural Networks Using Microcanonical Optimization Algorithm
GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
IEEE Access, 8, s. 52528-52540
SCI-Expanded International Peer-reviewed
2019
Konvolüsyonel Sinir Ağlarında Hiper-Parametre Optimizasyonu Yöntemlerinin İncelenmesi
GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Gazi Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi Part C: Tasarım ve Teknoloji, 7(2), s. 503-522 · DOI: 29109
TR INDEX National Peer-reviewed Review Article
2019
Konvolüsyonel Sinir Ağlarında Hiper-Parametre Optimizasyonu Yöntemlerinin İncelenmesi
KUŞ ZEKİ, GÜLCÜ AYLA
Gazi Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi Part C: Tasarım ve Teknoloji, 7(2), s. 503-522 · DOI: 10.29109/gujsc.514483
TR INDEX National Peer-reviewed OpenAlex: 31 citations
2025
Beyaz Kan Hücresi Tespitinde YOLO Tabanlı Modellerin Deneysel Karşılaştırması
Yarıkan Atıf Eren,Öztek İrem Eylül,KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,KİRAZ ALPER
33. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı · istanbul Türkiye · 25.06.2025
National Full-text paper Oral presentation
2025
Data Valuation with Shapley-based Methods for Medical Image Classification
KAYA AKÇELİK ZELİHA,HOŞAVCI REYHAN,DİK SÜMEYYE ZÜLAL,AYDIN MUSA,KUŞ ZEKİ
10th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies · Helsinki FİNLANDİYA · 23.05.2025 – 25.05.2025
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2025
Evaluation of Concrete Performance of Risky Buildings in Earthquakes using Machine Learning
Sağlam Muhammet Mustafa,Önal Ömer Yasir,Keskin Murat,KUŞ ZEKİ,GÖNCÜ SADULLAH,ÇAKIR ÖZGÜR,Anıl Emrecan,Ayvalı Fatimenur,Tanrıverdi Hakan,Yıldırım Doğan
33. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı · istanbul Türkiye · 25.06.2025
National Full-text paper Oral presentation
2025
Histopatoloji Görüntülerinin Sınıflandırılması için Sinir Mimarisi Arama
KOÇ SEMİHA,KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,AYDIN MUSA
33. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı · İstanbul Türkiye · 25.06.2025 – 28.06.2025
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2025
Leukemia White Blood Cell Classification Using DenseNet121 Embeddings and Ensemble Learning
GÖKSU TUĞÇE,KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA
9th International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Smart Technologies · Gaziantep Türkiye · 27.06.2025 – 28.06.2025
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2025
Shapley Patch Valuation Method for Histopathological Image Classification
KARADENİZ BÜŞRA SİNEM,DİK SÜMEYYE ZÜLAL,KUŞ ZEKİ,AYDIN MUSA
10th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies · Helsinki FİNLANDİYA · 23.05.2025 – 25.05.2025
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2024
A Hybrid CNN-Tree Based Model for Enhanced Image Classification Performance
AYDIN MUSA,KUŞ ZEKİ,KAYA AKÇELİK ZELİHA
2024 32st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · Mersin Türkiye · 15.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2024
BioNAS: Neural Architecture Search for Multiple Data Modalities in Biomedical Image Classification
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,AYDIN MUSA,KİRAZ ALPER
3rd International Conference On Advanced Engineering, Technology And Applications · Catania İTALYA · 24.05.2024
International Full-text paper Oral presentation
2024
PBC-NAS: Neural Architecture Search for Peripheral Blood Cells Classification
KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,AYDIN MUSA,KİRAZ ALPER
2024 32st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · Mersin Türkiye · 15.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2024
The Effect of Class-Weighted Penalization in Deep Neural Networks for Multi-Class Cell Segmentation
AYDIN MUSA,KUŞ ZEKİ,KİRAZ BERNA,HOŞAVCI REYHAN,KİRAZ ALPER
2024 32st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · Mersin Türkiye · 15.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2023
BaDENAS: Bayesian Based Neural Architecture Search for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ, KİRAZ BERNA
2023 31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · İstanbul Türkiye · 05.07.2023 – 08.07.2023
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2023
Machine Learning Approaches for Cell Viability
KAYA ZELİHA, KUŞ ZEKİ, KİRAZ BERNA, ULUDAĞ GÖNÜL
2023 31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · İstanbul Türkiye · 05.07.2023 – 08.07.2023
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2023
Triplet MAML for Few-Shot Classification Problems
GÜLCÜ AYLA, KUŞ ZEKİ, KARAKUŞ OSMAN FURKAN
International Conference On Advanced Engineering, Technology And Applications · 10.03.2023 – 11.03.2023
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2022
Neural Architecture Search Using Differential Evolution in MAML Framework for Few-Shot Classification Problems
GÜLCÜ AYLA, KUŞ ZEKİ
MIC: Metaheuristics 14th International Conference · 11.07.2022 – 14.07.2022
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2022
Neural Architecture Search Using Metaheuristics for Automated Cell Segmentation
KUŞ ZEKİ, AYDIN MUSA, KİRAZ BERNA, CAN BURHANETTİN
MIC: Metaheuristics 14th International Conference · 11.07.2022 – 14.07.2022
International Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2022
Removal of Gaussian Distributed Noise in Images with Deep Neural Network Models
KUŞ ZEKİ, AYDIN MUSA
30. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı · Karabük Türkiye · 15.05.2022 – 18.05.2022
National Full-text paper Oral presentation DOI
2021
Slack-based Robustness Estimators for the Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling Problem
AKKAN CAN,GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling - PATAT 2021 · 24.08.2021 – 27.08.2021
International Full-text paper Oral presentation
2020
Search Space Sampling by Simulated Annealing for Identifying Robust Solutions in Course Timetabling
AKKAN CAN,GÜLCÜ AYLA,KUŞ ZEKİ
IEEE World Congress On Computational Intelligence (WCCI) · 19.07.2020 – 24.07.2020
International Full-text paper Oral presentation
No book records
2025
Tam Slayt Dijital Patoloji Görüntülerinin Sınıflandırılması için Eğitim Gerektiren ve Eğitim Gerektirmeyen Sinir Mimarisi Arama Yöntemlerinin Kullanılması
Tam Slayt Dijital Patoloji Görüntülerinin Sınıflandırılması
20.02.2025
TÜBİTAK -Tübitak 3501 Principal investigator Ongoing National
2021
Az Örnekle Öğrenme Problemleri Için Metrik Öğrenme Tabanlı Yeni Bir Meta-Öğrenme Algoritması
01.09.2021 – 01.04.2023
TÜBİTAK -Tübitak 3501 Scholarship holder Completed National
2018
Üniversite Ders Çizelgeleme Problemi İçin Gürbüz Çözüm Algoritmaları
Bu projenin amacı müfredat-bazlı üniversite ders çizelgeleme (MB-ÜDÇ) problemi için gürbüz çözümler üretecek algoritmalar geliştirmektir.
15.05.2018 – 15.08.2020 · FATİH SULTAN MEHMET VAKIF ÜNİVERSİTESİ
TÜBİTAK -Tübitak 1001 Scholarship holder Completed National
2025
Retinal damar segmentasyonu için çoklu öğretmen tabanlı bilgi damıtma
Student: ABDULLAH EID
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi / Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü / Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Ana Bilim Dalı
Master's Completed Co-supervisor
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Education

Doctoral 2019 – 2023
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Graduate School › Computer Engineering (PhD)
Hücre-damar segmentasyonunda kullanılan derin sinir ağı modellerinin hiper-parametre optimizasyonu
Master's 2017 – 2019
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Graduate School › Computer Engineering (MSc) (with Thesis)
Mikrokanonikal optimizasyon algoritması ile konvolüsyonel sinir ağlarında hiper parametrelerin optimize edilmesi
Bachelor's 2016 – 2019
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Faculty of Engineering › Department of Computer Engineering › Computer Engineering Programme (50% Scholarship)

Academic positions

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2025 – ongoing
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Faculty of Engineering › Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2024 – 2025
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Faculty of Engineering › Department of Computer Engineering
RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2019 – 2024
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Faculty of Engineering › Department of Computer Engineering

Administrative positions

Head of Department 2025 – ongoing
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Deputy Head of Department 2024 – 2025
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University
Academic yearCourseLevelLanguageHours
2023-2024Bilgisayar Programlama IBachelor'sTurkish3
2023-2024Bilgisayar Programlama IIBachelor'sTurkish5
2023-2024Bilgisayar Programlama Laboratuvar IBachelor'sTurkish2
2023-2024Bitirme Projesi IBachelor'sTurkish5
2023-2024Computer Programming (Python lang.)Bachelor'sEnglish3
2023-2024Computer Programming Laboratory IIBachelor'sEnglish2
2023-2024Programming for Data EngineeringBachelor'sEnglish3
2023-2024Python Programing LanguageBachelor'sEnglish4
2023-2024Uygulamalı Veri BilimiMaster'sTurkish3
2023-2024Veri BilimiMaster'sTurkish3
2023-2024Veri MühendisliğiMaster'sTurkish3
2023-2024Veri BilimiDoctoralTurkish3
Data are compiled from YÖKSİS (researcher declarations) and international index sources. International data last updated: 09.10.2026 03:00 · Page generated 24.10.2026 19:09 · Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi APEDIA