The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Bilkent University graduate Ümit Çatalyürek (CS/BS ’92, MS ’94, PhD ’00) an IEEE Fellow.
A faculty member at The Ohio State University, Prof. Çatalyürek is vice chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics there. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, he worked at Johns Hopkins University as a research associate and at the University of Maryland as a visiting research scientist. His research interests include topics in the areas of high performance computing, combinatorial scientific computing and biomedical informatics.
With more than 400,000 members, IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization. Promotion to its Fellow rank is one of the highest honors that the IEEE can bestow upon an individual, and a mark of recognition reserved for IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed to merit such a distinction.