ICON Lab, Bilkent University

People

Principal Investigator

Tolga Çukur

Tolga Çukur

PI

Dr. Çukur is Professor in the Dept. of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), and the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Bilkent University.

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Postdoctoral researchers

Saban Ozturk

Saban Ozturk

Research Associate

Dr. Ozturk is a member of ICON Lab and an Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University. His research interests are deep learning, computer vision, medical image analysis and content-based image retrieval.

Amir Ghaffari

Amir Ghaffari

Postdoctoral Researcher

Amir is a postdoctoral researcher in ICON Lab. He received his M.D. degree from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2022. His research focuses on vascular imaging and diagnostic analysis. His current work centers on developing foundation models and AI-assisted workflows to optimize clinical imaging pipelines.

Mertcan Ozdemir

Mertcan Ozdemir

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mertcan is a postdoctoral researcher in ICON Lab. He received his Ph.D. degree from TOBB ETU in 2026. His research focuses on AI-based image reconstruction frameworks.

PhD students

Valiyeh Ansarian Nezhad

Valiyeh Ansarian Nezhad

PhD candidate

Valiyeh received her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2021. Her research interests include multi-modal deep learning methods for tissue segmentation.

Gokberk Elmas

Gokberk Elmas

PhD candidate

Gokberk received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in 2020. He is currently working on novel machine learning approaches for medical image reconstruction.

Usama Mirza

Usama Mirza

PhD candidate

Usama received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from NUST in 2021. He is working on unrolled deep learning architectures for inverse problem solutions.

Jalal Nematbakhsh

Jalal Nematbakhsh

PhD candidate

Jalal received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology 2026 in. He is currently working on deep learning methods for medical imaging.

MS students

Mustafa Arda Aydin

Mustafa Arda Aydin

MS candidate

Arda received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from ITU in 2024. He is currently working on vision-language model for medical tasks.

Furkan Genc

Furkan Genc

MS candidate

Furkan received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from METU in June 2024. He is currently working on medical image reconstruction via deep learning models.

Efe Ozdilek

Efe Ozdilek

MS candidate

Efe received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bilkent in June 2025. He is currently working on deep learning models for medical image synthesis.

Parsa Yousefinezhad

Parsa Yousefinezhad

MS candidate

Parsa received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bilkent in June 2024. He is currently working on deep learning models for medical image analysis.

Cem Alabas

Cem Alabas

MS candidate

Cem received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bilkent in June 2026. He is currently working on deep learning models for time series analysis.

Erdem Koculu

Erdem Koculu

MS candidate

Erdem received his B.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from METU in 2023. He is currently working on deep learning methods for medical imaging.

Amin Pourmahbobi

Amin Pourmahbobi

MS candidate

Amin received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Tabriz in 2026. He is currently working on deep learning methods for medical imaging.

Arman Yazdani

Arman Yazdani

MS candidate

Arman received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2026. He is currently working on deep learning methods for medical imaging.