Osman Gökalp

Osman Gökalp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH). He holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Ege University's Computer Engineering department (2010, 2012, 2018). Previously, he served as a research assistant at Yaşar University (2011-2012) and Ege University (2014-2021), followed by an assistant professor position at Izmir Katip Çelebi University (2021-2024). His research focuses on evolutionary computation, metaheuristic algorithms, machine learning, and optimization problems with applications in medical imaging, cloud computing, and wireless sensor networks.

Education:

• B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Ege University (2010)
• M.Sc. Computer Engineering, Ege University (2012)
• Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Ege University (2018)

Research Interests: His work spans algorithm design for optimization problems, including metaheuristics like Greedy Construction and Differential Evolution. Notable areas include DNA motif discovery, task scheduling in cloud computing, and Alzheimer's disease detection via medical imaging.

Projects: Contributions include repositories like 'WSN_Coverage_And_Connectivity' (Differential Evolution for sensor networks), 'CloudTaskSchedulingOptimization' (metaheuristics for cloud task scheduling), and 'MotifDiscovery' (DNA sequence analysis using GRASP metaheuristic).

Labs/Teams: Active in IZTECH's Computer Engineering research groups, focusing on computational intelligence and algorithm development for real-world applications.