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Mert is a full professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Mert holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey (2009), MSc in Computer Science from University of Essex, UK (2011), and PhD in Computer Science from City, University of London, UK (2014).
Mert has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Mert’s research interests include software architectures, modeling languages, meta-modeling, software ecosystems, formal verification, and empirical software engineering. Mert leads the software engineering research group at Yeditepe. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He has been active in several of national and international research and consultancy projects with various large software companies, whereby he has worked as a principal researcher, language engineer and tool developer in different domains such as logistics and transportation, e-commerce, defense/military systems, and car manufacturing. He has taken a holistic, systemic, and multi-disciplinary approach to solving real industrial problems. So, Mert has ample experience in such areas as software and systems architecting, model-based engineering, formal verification, language engineering and tool constructions. Mert has also been actively teaching on all those areas at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has indeed developed and taught different academic courses including software engineering, software architecture, and software testing and provided courses on model-based engineering to different companies in Turkey. He has reviewed more than 20 national projects and is a regular reviewer for several international journals.
Mert has been the organisation chair for the 17th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), which is the premier European software architecture conference and took place at Yeditepe University between 18-22 September 2023. Mert has also organised the national conferences on software engineering and software architecture, including UYMS and UYMK, national workshops, international tutorials, and acts regularly as the track chairs, organisation chairs, or program committee chairs.
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