Hi there, I'm Cem.

I'm a PhD Candidate from the Vinck Lab, ESI.

I am currently working at Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society as a graduate student supervised by Dr.Martin Vinck. I am interested in applying computational approaches as well as theory from electronics and computer science (signals and systems, control, information theory) to discover underlying neural phenomena. I am focused in computational modeling of visual areas of mammals and dynamical modeling of the cortical layers using large-scale electrophysiology recordings and closed-loop optogenetic stimulation.

I did my Masters in computer science at the Univesity of Freiburg. My thesis work entitled "Source localization of high-density microelectrode array recordings" is an interdisciplinary work of the 3D Image Analysis Group and Computational Neuroscience Center, Bernstein Center Freiburg.

The thesis is a method in source localization of neuronal activity for high-density micro-electrode array recordings. It is focused on Nonlinear Optimization, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Neural Signal Processing.

I majored in Cognitive Technical Systems, and during my studies I've been focused in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Brain State Decoding, Brain Machine Interfaces, Electrical stimulation, EEG Signal Analysis.