Ozcan Ozturk is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering and Electronics Engineering programs at Sabancı University's Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Previously, he held professorships at Bilkent University and adjunct roles at North Carolina State University. His expertise spans heterogeneous computing, parallel systems, processor architecture, and compiler optimization. He earned his Ph.D. from Penn State University, with prior academic roles at the University of Florida and internships at Intel and Marvell. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (2007), Pennsylvania State University M.S. in Computer Engineering (2002), University of Florida B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2000), Bogazici University Research interests include accelerator technologies, GPU-based systems, multicore processors, and compiler optimizations. His work focuses on improving parallelization efficiency, energy optimization, and reliability in heterogeneous architectures. He leads funded projects like 'Machine Learning for Compiler Flags' and 'Graph Accelerator Design'. Notable awards include the Bilkent Teaching Award (2019), BAGEP (2018), and HiPEAC Paper Award (2016). He serves on editorial boards of IEEE and ACM journals and chairs major conferences like ASPLOS and ICS. Grants and collaborations include partnerships with Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA, and TÜBİTAK. He advises over 20 students and has supervised projects in safety-critical systems, FPGA accelerators, and compiler-directed optimizations. His lab develops domain-specific architectures, including RISC-V extensions for graph processing.
