2020-2021Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
2019-2019Visiting Researcher, Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
2016-2020Teaching Asistant, Industrial Engineering, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey.
2013-2016Teaching Asistant, Mathematics, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey.
2012-2013Teaching and Research Asistant, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Publications
Kuru N., Yildirim S., Gurbuzbalaban M., Birbil I. (2020) Differential Privacy of Accelerated First-Order Methods. Submitted, arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01989.
Kaya, K., Oztoprak, F., Birbil, I., Cemgil, T., Simsekli, U., Kuru, N., Koptagel, H., Ozturk, K. (2019). A framework for parallel second order incremental optimization algorithms for solving partially separable problems. Computational Optimization and Applications 72.3: 675:705.
Weinstein, Z.B., Kuru, N., Kiriakov, S., Palmer, A.C., Khalil, A.S., Clemons, P.A., Zaman, M.H., Roth, F.P., Cokol, M. Modeling the impact of drug interactions on therapeutic selectivity. Nature Communications 12/2018; 9(1)., DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-05954-3
Cokol, M., Kuru, N., Bicak, E., Larkins-Ford, J., Aldridge, B.B. Effcient measurement and factorization of high-order drug interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Science Advances 10/2017; 3(10):e1701881., DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1701881
Mason, D.J., Stott, I., Ashenden, S., Weinstein, Z.B., Karakoc, I., Meral, S., Kuru, N., Bender, A., Cokol, M. Prediction of Antibiotic Interactions Using Descriptors Derived from Molecular Structure. DOI:10.17863/CAM.12771
Seashore-Ludlow, B., Rees, M.G., Cheah, J.H., Cokol, M., Price, E.V., Coletti, M.E., Jones, V., Bodycombe, N.E., Soule, C.K., Gould, J., Alexander, B., Li, A., Montgomery, P., Wawer, M.J., Kuru, N., Kotz, J.D., Hon C.S., Munoz, B., Liefeld, T., Dank, V., Bittker, J.A., Palmer, M., Bradner, J.E., Shamji, A.F., Clemons, P.A., Schreiber, S.L. Harnessing Connectivity in a Large-Scale Small-Molecule Sensitivity Dataset. Cancer Discovery 10/2015; 5(11)., DOI:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-0235
Weinstein, Z.B., Kuru, N., Clemons, P., Roth, F., and Cokol, M. Synergy and Selectivity of Antifungal Small Molecule Combinations. The FASEB Journal. 2015 April vol.29 No.1 Supplement 773.13.
Presentations
2020 A Novel Probabilistic Approach for Detecting Acceptable Amino Acid Substitutions, 13th The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT), Istanbul/Turkey.
2019 Differentially Private Accelerated Optimization Algorithms with Special Parameter Selection, Department of Mathematics, Galatasaray University, Istanbul/Turkey.
2018 A Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm with Smoothing, PiMLAI Workshop, ICML, Stockholm/Sweden.
2016 A Parallel Incremental Optimization Algorithm Using Quadratic Approximations for Solving Partially Separable Problems, The 36th National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering (ORIE) Congress, Izmir/Turkey.
2013 The Uniformly Convex in Every Direction Structure of lp(u,v), International Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Modeling, Istanbul/Turkey.
2013 The Uniformly Convex in Every Direction Structure of l(p,u,v), Algerian-Turkish International Days on Mathematics, Istanbul/Turkey.
Grants
2019–2019 International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
