Education:

Experience:

Research Interests:

• Geometric Topology
• Topological Data Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Data Science

Grants:

Awards:

• Young Scientist Award, Turkish Science Academy, 2016
• Fulbright Scholar Award, 2014
• Masatoshi Gunduz Ikeda Research Award, 2010
• Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award, 2010
• Young Scholar Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2009
• Sedat Simavi Science Award, 2009

Short Visits:

• Short term visit to Yale University, July - August 2011
• Short term visit to Max-Planck Institute - Bonn, July - August 2013

Papers & Preprints:             Google Scholar             Math Reviews

• (A. Balitskiy, F. Memoli) Geometric Bounds for Persistence
• (K.Shamsi, C.G.Akcora et al) Graphpulse: Topological Representations for Temporal Graphs   ICLR 2024
• (Y. Chen,I.S. Dominguez and Y. Gel) TMP: Temporal Multipersistence   AAAI 2024
• (A. Yadav, F. Ahmed, O. Daescu, R. Gedik) Histopathological Cancer Detection with TDA  IEEE BIBM 2023
• (I.S.Dominguez et al) EMP: Effective MultiPersistence for Graph Representation Learning  LoG 2023
• (D. Brodsky, H. Daruger) 3D MRI Brain Tumor Diagnosis with TDA  MICCAI-W Brainles 2023
• (F. Ahmed, B. Nuwagira, F. Torlak) Topo-CXR: Chest X-ray TB and Pneumonia Screening  ICCV-W CVAMD 2023
• (H. Adams) Geometric Approaches to Persistent Homology  SIAGA (2022) 26pp
• (C.Akcora, Y.Gel, M.Kantarcioglu) Reduction Algorithms for PH of Networks   NeurIPS 2022
• (A. Demir, I.S.Dominguez,Y.Chen,Y.Gel,B.Kiziltan) Drug Discovery with TDA   NeurIPS 2022
• (Y. Chen,I.S. Dominguez and Y. Gel) Time Aware Multipersistence   ICLR 2022
• (Y. Chen and Y. Gel) Topological Relational Learning on Graphs   NeurIPS 2021

• Aymptotic Plateau Problem in H2xR: Tall Curves   Indiana Univ. Math. J. (2023)
• Minimal Surfaces in H2xR: Nonfillable Curves   J. Topol. Anal. 15 (2023)14pp
• Existence of Embedded Minimal Disks   Comm. Contemp. Math. 24 (2022) 15pp
• Minimal Surfaces in Hyperbolic 3-manifolds   Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 74 (2021) 114-139.
• Minimal Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology in H2xR   Alg. & Geom. Top. 21 (2021) 3123-3151.
• Embedded H-Planes in Hyperbolic 3-Space   Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019) 1253–1269.
• Asymptotic Plateau Problem in H^2xR   Selecta Math. 24 (2018) 4811–4838.
• (W. Meeks and G. Tinaglia) Nonproperly Embedded H-planes in H^2xR Math. Ann. 370 (2018) 1491-1512.
  
• Embeddedness of the Solutions to the H-Plateau Problem   Adv. Math. 317 (2017) 553-574.
• H-Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology in H^3   J. Geom. Anal. 27 (2017) 1211–1236.
• (W. Meeks and G. Tinaglia) Nonproperly Embedded H-planes in H^3 J. Diff. Geom. 105 (2017) 405-425.
• Asymptotic H-Plateau Problem in H^3   Geometry & Topology 20-1 (2016) 613-627.
• (T. Bourni) Area min. surfaces in MC 3-manifolds J. Reine Angew. Math. 704 (2015) 135-168.
• (T. Etgu) Uniqueness of Area Minimizing Surfaces Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 30 (2014) 1135-1148.
• Examples of Area Minimizing Surfaces in 3-manifolds   IMRN 6 (2014) 1613-1634.
• Asymptotic Plateau Problem: A Survey Proc. Gokova GT Conf. (2013) 120-146.
• Embedded Plateau Problem   Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012) 1211-1224.
• On the Number of Solns to Asymp. Plateau Problem   J. Gokova Geom. & Top. 5 (2011) 1-19.
• Non-properly Embedded Min. Planes in H^3   Comm. Contemp. Math. 13 (2011) 727-739.
• Generic Uniqueness of Area Min. Disks for Ext. Curves   American J. Math. 132 (2010) 1091-1104.
• Foliations of Hyperbolic Space by CMC Hypersurfaces   IMRN (2010) 1417-1431.
• Number of LA Planes in Gromov Hyp. 3-Spaces   Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010) 2923-2937.
• LA Planes in Hyp. 3-Space are Prop. Embedded   Indiana Univ. Math. J. 58 (2009) 381-392.
  
• Prop. Emb. LA Planes in Gromov Hyp. 3-Spaces   Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008) 1427-1432.
• Mean Convex Hulls and Least Area Disks   Math Z. 252 (2006) 811-824.
• Minimizing CMC Hypersurfaces in Hyp. Space   Geom. Dedicata 118 (2006) 157-171.
• Generic Uniqueness of Least Area Planes   Geometry & Topology 10 (2006) 401-412.
• Uniform 1-cochains and Genuine Laminations   Topology 45 (2006) 751-784.
• Minimal Planes in Hyperbolic Space   Comm. Anal. Geom. 12 (2004) 821-836.
 
These works are partially supported by NASA-AIST grant, NSF-DMS grants, and Simons collaboration grant.

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Some Talks & Conferences:

• Yau's 70th Birthday Conference at Harvard, May 2019
• Brian White Conference at Stanford, July 2018
• Geometry Seminar at CUNY, February 2018
• Geometric Analysis Workshop at Rutgers, November 2017
• AMS Meeting at U. Buffalo, September 2017
• Geometry & Topology Conference at U. Georgia, May 2017
• Topology Seminar at Rutgers, April 2017
• Geometry Seminar at U. Chicago, March 2017
• Geometry Seminar at MIT, February 2017
• Geometry Seminar at U. Rochester, February 2017
• Geometry Seminar at King's College-London, Dec. 2015
• Geometry Seminar at Harvard Univ., March 2015
• Topology Seminar at Yale Univ., March 2015
• Geometry Seminar at CUNY, March 2015
• Geometry Seminar at Princeton Univ., February 2015
• Geometry Seminar at Stanford Univ., November 2014
• Joint LA Topology Seminar at Caltech, November 2014
• Geometry Seminar at UCSC, November 2014
• Topology Seminar at Boston College, November 2014
• Geometry Seminar at U.Mass.-Amherst, November 2014
• Geometry Seminar at MIT, September 2014
• Geometry Seminar at Rochester Univ., September 2014
• European Geometric Analysis Resarch Network Conference, Roscoff, June 2014
• Oberseminar, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn, July 2013
• Variational Problems & Geometric PDEs Conference, Granada, June 2013
• Minimal Surfaces & 3-manifolds Workshop, MIT, April 2013
• Geometry Seminar, Cambridge University, UK, May 2012
• Geometry Day at King's College, London, UK, May 2012
• Geometry & Topology Seminar, University of Granada, Spain, October 2011
• Surface Theory Conference at University of Sevilla, Spain, April 2011
• Low Dimensional Topology Workshop at Princeton University, March 2011
• Topology Seminar at University of Texas at Austin, February 2011
• 45th Texas Geometry and Topology Conference at Texas Tech U., February 2011
• International Congress of Mathematicians at Hyderabad, India, August 2010
• Geometric Topology Conference at Bangalore, India, August 2010
• National Mathematics Symposium at Kayseri, Turkey, August 2010
• 17th Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference in Turkey, May 2010
• Georgia Geometry and Topology Conference at University of Georgia, May 2009
• Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference in Turkey, May 2009
• Colloquium Talk at METU, March 2009
• Colloquium Talk at Sabanci University, April 2008
• Izmir Geometric Topology Workshop, January 2009
• Colloquium Talk at Bilkent University, January 2009
• Topology Seminar at Princeton University, November 2008
• Gluckfest at Rutgers University, November 2008
• Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference in Turkey, May 2008
• Colloquium Talk at Sabanci University, April 2008
• Colloquium Talk at Bilgi University, November 2007
• W. Thurston's 60th Birthday Conference at Princeton University, June 2007
• Colloquium Talk at Bogazici University, April 2007
• AMS Meeting at Storrs, CT, October 2006
• Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference in Turkey, May 2006
• Topology Seminar at Yale University, November 2005
• Geometry Seminar at Brown University, May 2005
• Topology Seminar at Yale University, November 2004
• Hyperbolic Geometry Conference at Wesleyan University, October 2004
• Topology Seminar at Yale University, September 2004
• Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference in Turkey, May 2004
• Geometric Analysis Seminar at Johns Hopkins University, March 2004
• AMS Meeting at Tallahassee, FL, March 2004
• Topology Seminar in Rutgers University, February 2004
• AMS National Meeting at Phoenix, AZ, January 2004
• Graduate Student Seminar at Princeton University, December 2003
• Geometric Analysis Seminar at Princeton University, July 2003
• Topology Seminar at Princeton University, April 2003

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Graduate Students:       Research Group

• Faisal Ahmed (exp. 2023)
• Astrit Tola (exp. 2025)
• Brighton Nuwagira (exp. 2026)
• Joshem Uddin (exp. 2026)
• Sayoni Chakraborty (exp. 2027)
• Cagri Haciyusufoglu (PhD 2016)
• Betul Senay (MS 2010)
• Alper Metin Gur (MS 2009)

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Teaching:

• Graduate & Undergraduate Courses Taught

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Synergetic Activities:

• Referee for Duke, JEMS, JDG, CMH, TAMS, G&T, JGA, et al.
• Associate Editor for Math World
• Organizer of Several Workshops & Graduate Schools
• Panel Reviewer for NSF - DMS
• Former Board Member of TASSA
• Former Executive Board Member of Turkish Math Society

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Miscellaneous:

• US & Turkish citizen, born in 1977, married with two children.