EKREM VAROĞLU

EKREM VAROĞLU is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Computing and Technology, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EMU, 2000), an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Texas A&M University, 1994), and a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Pennsylvania State University, 1992).

• Research Focus: Biomedical Text Mining, Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Computational Biology
• Thesis Supervision: Supervised 4 PhD theses (2010–2016) and 7 Master's theses (2012–2020) including topics in chemical/biomedical NER, protein isoform interactions, sentiment analysis for microblogs, and transcript diversity impacts on protein domains.
• Academic Roles: Served as associate editor, conference reviewer, session chair, and thesis committee member.