Vilda Purutçuoğlu

Prof. Vilda Purutçuoğlu is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Middle East Technical University (METU). Her academic career includes roles as Assistant Professor (2010–2012), Associate Professor (2012–2018), and Professor since 2018. She holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University (2007) and has affiliations with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mathematics, and Informatics Institute at METU.

Her research focuses on bioinformatics, systems biology, high-dimensional data analysis, neuroscience, and social statistics. Key professional roles include Head of the Department of Statistics (since 2025), Chair of the Award Fund Committee at the International Biometric Society (since 2022), and Editorial roles in journals like BMC Bioinformatics. She has led projects on topics ranging from family dynamics to outlier detection in biomedical data, funded by TÜBİTAK and METU.

Prof. Purutçuoğlu has been recognized with multiple Academic Performance Awards (2011–2022 excluding 2020) and was a finalist for the Sabri Ülker Science Award (2015). She collaborates internationally, including a Global Engagement Fellowship (2024–2025) at University College London and research at Università Della Svizzera Italiana (2024).

Her publications span books on operations research and bioinformatics, and she actively supervises projects and students in interdisciplinary areas like biomedical engineering and computational statistics.