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Prof. Dr. Kadir Turan received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fırat University in 2000. He completed his M.Sc. in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2009, both in the field of Mechanics within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Fırat University.
In 2007, he began his academic career as a Research Assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dicle University. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2011. Following successful qualification through the Interuniversity Council of Turkey (ÜAK), he obtained the title of Associate Professor in 2014.
In 2020, he was promoted to Full Professor in the Division of Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dicle University, where he continues his academic and research activities.
Prof. Dr. Turan has contributed to numerous research projects, scientific publications, and academic collaborations in the areas of mechanical and structural engineering. His ongoing work focuses on the mechanical behavior of materials, computational modeling, and applied mechanics.
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Visiting Professor at Oxford University, Dr. Idris Bedirhanoglu, who holds Bachelor and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering, got his Ph.D. from Istanbul Technical University with a co-advisor from Purdue University where he did a part of his PhD. He has been a Professor of Structural Engineering at Dicle University since March 2023. He worked as a Research Scientist at the Engineering Faculty of New York University Abu Dhabi in 2018-2019. He is the author/co-author of more than 40 journals (SCI or SCIE) or international conference papers and a co-author of four book chapters. He is on the Editorial Board of M. of J. of World Architecture and Engineering News (2014-2016), and a reviewer of more than 20 journals (SCI or SCIE). He is skilled in structural analysis, particularly in evaluating existing structures and retrofitting. As well, he has provided consultancy to more than 100 industrial projects. He has served as a member of the Technical Delegation to Evaluate Objections to Risky Building Detections (Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, General Directorates for Environment and Urbanization), vice chair of the Civil Engineering Department at Dicle University (2018-2019) and chair of the structural engineering laboratory (2010-2018). His main research interests include seismic design and evaluation of RC and historical structures, retrofitting buildings with FRP composites or textile fibers, recycling concrete, nondestructive testing, fuzzy logic, and finite element analysis.
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Abdulkadir Albayrak is post-doctoral research fellow at Computational Pathology and AI, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees all in Computer Engineering. He worked as a research assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey between 2011-2019. He is curently Assoc. Prof. Dr. at the Department of Computer Engineering at Dicle University. He mainly works on computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning and generative AI.
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He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dicle University in 2017 and his Ph.D. degree in 2023. In 2025, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dicle University. His research interests include medical image processing, deep learning, machine learning, medical informatics, and digital pathology.
