Kayhan Erciyeş (born 30 November 1956) is a Turkish computer engineer, educator and author. Between 2009 and 2016, he was the rector of

İzmir University İzmir University () was a university in the Üçkuyular neighborhood of Karabağlar, a metropolitan district of İzmir, Turkey. It was established in 2007 by the Doğanata Education and Culture Foundation, which opened in 2008. On 23 July 2016 ...

Biography

After receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

(1979), Kayhan Erciyeş completed the Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering at the

University of Salford The University of Salford is a Public university, public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, be ...

(1983) and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Engineering at

Ege University Ege University or Aegean University () is a public research university in Bornova, İzmir. It was founded in 1955 with the faculties of Medicine and Agriculture. It is the first university to start courses in İzmir and the fourth oldest unive ...

and (partly) at the

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(1989). He was research assistant (1985–1990), assistant professor, associate professor (1991–1999) and since 1999 professor at Ege University. He was visiting lecturer at

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(1994–1995), visiting professor at the

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(2001) and at

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(2002). He was the rector of

from 2009 until 2016, when the university was closed during the 2016–17 purges in Turkey. In 2016, he supported and helped to organise the distribution of basic survival provisions to some of the worst-off refugees in the area of

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Work

Kayhan Erciyeş is best known for his research in distributed systems and algorithms,

computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...

s, with application areas such as

mobile network A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless and the network is distributed over land areas called ''cells'', each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (suc ...

wireless sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...

grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished fro ...

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computing, computation in which many calculations or Process (computing), processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. ...

distributed Distribution may refer to: Mathematics *Distribution (mathematics), generalized functions used to formulate solutions of partial differential equations *Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a varia ...

real-time Real-time, realtime, or real time may refer to: Computing * Real-time computing, hardware and software systems subject to a specified time constraint * Real-time clock, a computer clock that keeps track of the current time * Real-time Control Syst ...

and

embedded systems An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is em ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

. In 1983–1984, he was research & development engineer at

Alcatel Alcatel SA was a French industrial conglomerate active between 1963 and 2006. It has roots to ''Compagnie Générale d’Electricité'' (CGE), a conglomerate founded in 1898 as an early state owned cable and telephone equipment company that lat ...

Turkey and in 1990–1991 at Alcatel Portugal. In 1999, he received the Great Technical Award from the

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies, support and conduct research and development, and to ...

for his work as consultant and head of the design team in Alcatel Turkey at the project 'New Generation Card Phones and Their Network Management Systems'. In 1996–1999, he was consultant at Izmir Municipality Transportation System at the development of its Smart Card Application. In 2000, he received for the results of his work on this project the Best Smart Card application in the World 2000 Award by SESAME, Paris and the Karsiyaka

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Best Professional of the Year 2000 Award. In 2015, he published the book ''Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics'', where he presents a unified coverage of bioinformatics topics relating to both biological sequences and biological networks, combining DNA and protein sequence analysis and protein network analysis and offering about 15 new parallel algorithms.

Books

* ''A Communication Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Cluster Based Protocols for Distributed Applications'' (with Orhan Dagdeviren and Deniz Cokuslu) (2010) * ''Topology Control for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: A Dominating Set Based Approach'' (with Deniz Cokuslu and Orhan Dagdeviren) (2010) * ''Distributed Graph Algorithms for Computer Networks'' (2013) * ''Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective'' (2014) * ''Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics'' (2015) * ''Algebraic Graph Algorithms - A Practical Guide Using Python'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Erciyeş, Kayhan Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of the University of Salford Academic staff of Ege University Turkish computer scientists 1956 births Living people