Kayhan Erciyeş

Kayhan Erciyeş (born 30 November 1956) is a Turkish computer engineer, educator and author. Between 2009 and 2016, he was the rector of İzmir University.

Biography

After receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester (1979), Kayhan Erciyeş completed the Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Salford (1983) and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Engineering at Ege University and (partly) at the University of Edinburgh (1989).

In 2016, he supported and helped to organise the distribution of basic survival provisions to some of the worst-off refugees in the area of İzmir.

Work

Kayhan Erciyeş is best known for his research in distributed systems and algorithms, computer networks, with application areas such as mobile networks, wireless sensor networks, grid computing, parallel computing, distributed, real-time and embedded systems, bioinformatics.

In 1983–1984, he was research & development engineer at Alcatel Turkey and in 1990–1991 at Alcatel Portugal. In 1999, he received the Great Technical Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey for his work as consultant and head of the design team in Alcatel Turkey at the project 'New Generation Card Phones and Their Network Management Systems'.

In 1996–1999, he was consultant at Izmir Municipality Transportation System at the development of its Smart Card Application.

In 2015, he published the book Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics, where he presents a unified coverage of bioinformatics topics relating to both biological sequences and biological networks, combining DNA and protein sequence analysis and protein network analysis and offering about 15 new parallel algorithms.

Books A Communication Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Cluster Based Protocols for Distributed Applications (with Orhan Dagdeviren and Deniz Cokuslu) (2010) Topology Control for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: A Dominating Set Based Approach (with Deniz Cokuslu and Orhan Dagdeviren) (2010) Distributed Graph Algorithms for Computer Networks (2013) Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective (2014) Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics (2015) Algebraic Graph Algorithms - A Practical Guide Using Python (2021)