2018 Fall - Senior Projects

A Turkish Chatbot For Administrative Inquiries in Bogazici University

Chatbots have become a popular communication tool with the recent improvements in NLP and machine learning techniques.

Students: Ozan Kınasakal, Elifnaz Utkan

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

Generative Image Synthesis with Deep Learning

Recent studies in Deep Learning have led to many advancements in problems regarding images.

Students: Enis Simsar, Ömer Kırbıyık

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

PLIS: Web Based Application for Drug Target Interaction Extraction

The aim of this project is to create a web based application which provides easy access to drug target interactions, or in a more general sense, protein ligand interactions.

Students: Irmak Kavasoğlu

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

An Analysis of the Grand National Assembly of Turkish Parliamentary (TBMM) Transcripts

Decisions taken in parliament in the world affect societies and countries.

Students: Ramazan Arslan

Advisors: Suzan Üsküdarlı

Archiving Financial Data on Ethereum Blockchain

An Ethereum smart contract based financial data archive system will be developed that can be used by other smart contracts as a source of financial data.

Students:

Advisors: Can Özturan

Bayesian Allocation Model and Non-negative Matrix Factorization

We investigate a stochastic process called “Bayesian Allocation Model” where tokens are allocated randomly to a tensor and the probability for each index is specified by a graphical model.

Students: Barış Can Esmer, Yusuf Hakan Kalaycı

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Blockchain Based Student Academic Record Sharing System for Exchange Students

Universities that participate in exchange programs need to share academic information such as transcripts about the students.

Students: Barın Özmen

Advisors: Can Özturan

BlockLearn

Since its introduction with Nakamoto’s famous Bitcoin paper, the concept of blockchain has been gaining attraction all over the world.

Students: Anıl Seyrek

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Chord Progression and Music Estimation Using LSTM Networks

Recurrent Neural Networks and Long-Short Term Memory Units have been very successful in analyzing and handling time-series data with long or short term dependencies.

Students: A. Emirhan Karagül

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

Contextual Emotion Detection in Text

With the increase in the ease of use of technology, we communicate more and more with the computers in a conversational way.

Students: Halil Ozan Akgül

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Design & Development of a Restricted Version of Eclipse IDE

Eclipse has earned a good reputation in the academia and the industry thanks to its flexibility.

Students:

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Detecting Stress Using Accelerometer Data

Stress becomes a major issue in public health systems.

Students: Dilara Gökay

Advisors: Cem Ersoy

Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms on Large Datasets

Machine learning algorithms are widely used in engineering and business.

Students: Ali Göksu Özkan

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Effects of Obstcle in Axelrod's Culturel Model

There are a lot of different races, a lot of countries and communities of people in the world.

Students: Ahmet Semih Arı

Advisors: Haluk O. Bingöl

Evaluation Of Movie Recommendation Algorithms

Recommendation systems are gaining importance, especially with the development of new technologies and advanced machine learning algorithms.

Students: Abdurrahim Eskin, İsmail Levent Baş

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Financial Sentiment Analysis Through Public Disclosures

In this project I am using the public disclosure documents as an indicator to the stock price change of the following day.

Students: İrem Ulutaş

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Hand Feature Learning For Hand Shape Recognition

Sign Language is the main form of communication of the Deaf Community.

Students: Begun Unal

Advisors: Lale Akarun

IPFS and Blockchain Based Archival System for Open Academic Data

Open academic data such as course syllabi and degree programs are very valuable and need to be preserved in time stamped fashion.

Students:

Advisors: Can Özturan

Machine Learning Methods for Music Transcription

Music transcription is the transformation of musical sound signals into human-readable form.

Students: Onur Orhan

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Named Entity Recognition for Turkish

In this study, we implemented a Named Entity Recognition tool for Turkish language.

Students: Fatma Hilal Benzer, Büşra Hilal Cirit

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Aim of the project is giving a chance to people in our campuses for getting information about pets in the campuses and making job of people who are in the animal house and organizations like Bupati etc.

Students: Ahmet Ozan Tatlısu

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Real Time Stress Monitoring with Wearable Sensors and Sensors on the Phone

Stress became the top issue of individuals’ life quality.

Students: Dilruba Reyyan Kılıç

Advisors: Cem Ersoy

Receiver Design for Molecular Communication using Genetic Circuits

Engineering biological systems offers huge benefits to bio economy, through the development of applications in the areas of drug delivery, bio remediation, signaling and so on.

Students: Recep Deniz Aksoy

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Resource Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Peery is a highly efficient and infinitely scalable resource-sharing system which operates by constructing an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network that allows its participants to request and offer machine resources between one another.

Students: Erkam Agralı, Samed Düzçay

Advisors: Cem Ersoy