Murat Yilmaz

Murat Yilmaz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gazi University, Turkey. With over 14 years of industrial experience in software development, including roles at Huawei Research Centre and HAVELSAN A.Ş., he bridges academic research with practical software methodologies.

• Research Focus: Gamification in software engineering, agile transformations, virtual reality (VR) for training, and human-computer interaction.
• Industrial Collaboration: Partners include Huawei, HAVELSAN A.Ş., Kreatin Studios, and Portakal Technologies.
• Expertise: Software architecture, empirical research, motivational models, and digital governance in the metaverse.

His recent publications explore gamification in sleep health, bias in AI systems, metaverse applications, and microservices decomposition. He employs explainable AI and VR for software process improvement, with a strong emphasis on productivity, fairness, and efficiency in development teams.