Dr. Didem Unat Achieved an International Success

Koç University Computer Engineering FacultyProfessor at Dr. Didem Unat, “Emerging female leader award in technical computer scienceAs the owner of International Computer Science Society Awarded by outside of the USA first became a scientist.

Dr. Unat is also from the European Research Council for Computer Science. ERC He also has the title of being the first Turkish researcher to receive a scholarship.

Dr. Unat has had many successes before:

Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering after graduating from the University of California San Diegodoing in and Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryOne of the most prestigious scholarships in the world from Luis Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowshipentitled to receive Dr. Instructor Member Unat was not satisfied with these and in 2015 Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the European Commission, from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2019 BAGEP Award and in 2020 British Royal Society- Newton Advanced Fellowship scholarship He has had many other successes as well.

The first Turkish project to receive funding from the EU:

Returning to his hometown of Turkey after living abroad for many years, Unat said, “ I created an international forum to draw attention to data locality and to bring together scientists who are looking for a solution to this issue. The work of the platform we created attracted attention from many scientists and contributed greatly to my collaboration with researchers in the European Union. In order to fund my research, I prepared many projects and received resources from both TÜBİTAK, the EU and industrial companies in other countries. said and “The project, which I am the coordinator of at the moment and we are continuing as a multi-partner, received 2.6 million Euros from the European Union. In addition, my ERC project, which seeks solutions to software problems in advanced computer technologies, received 1.5 million Euros from the EU. This project, in which we wanted to develop new techniques in the field of programming, was the first project in Turkey to receive funding from the EU in the field of computers. “ he added.