Bio

Hakime Öztürk is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Computational Genomics and System Genetics group, which is led by Dr. Oliver Stegle, in German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

Her research interests include Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Hakime was previously a member of AILAB, TABILAB, and OzkirimliLab in Boğaziçi University. She is also proud of being mentor in DjangoGirls events.

Updates

[Aug 2020] The Best PhD Dissertation Award by Bogazici University!

[Feb 2020] Our review article entitled Exploring chemical space using natural language processing methodologies for drug discovery has been published in Drug Discovery Today.

[Dec 2019] Joined DKFZ as a post-doctoral researcher.

[Nov 2019] Defended my PhD!

Employment

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Post-doctoral researcher, 2019- present

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Computer Engineering
Teaching Assistant, 2017- 2019

Education

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering 2014- 2019
M.S. in Computer Engineering 2012- 2014
Advisor: Prof. Arzucan Ozgur
Co-advisor: Prof. Elif Ozkirimli

Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
B.S. in Computer Engineering (with Honors) 2008- 2012
Advisor: Prof. Suleyman Sevinc