Cem Say
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Ahmet Celal Cem Say (born 1966) is a Turkish theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science. He is a full time professor at the Bogazici University Department of Computer Engineering in Istanbul, Turkey.
Education
Cem Say was born in Ankara in 1966. He finished the high school TED Ankara College in 1983. He graduated from Bogazici University Computer Engineering in 1987. He received his PhD in the same department under the supervision of Selahattin Kuru in 1992.[1]
Academic career
He is a full time professor at the Department of Computer Engineering in Bogazici University since 1992. [2] He has been an active researcher, having published more than 80 scientific manuscripts with more than 700 citations.
Research areas
His research interests include theoretical computer science, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and natural language understanding.
Appearances in popular media
Cem Say has an active profile in popular media. He has delivered several TEDx conferences in Turkey on artificial intelligence and robots.[3] He has appeared many times in national television channels in Turkey as a popular science commentator. He has authored two popular science books in Turkish: 50 Soruda Yapay Zeka (Eng: Artificial Intelligence in 50 Questions) and Yeni Dünya Yeni Ağ (Eng: New World New Web). His popular articles on theoretical computer science have appeared in various local magazines. He has an active twitter appearance, where he tweets in a daily basis on popular science and current political issues.
Representative scientific publications
- ACC Say, S Kuru "Qualitative system identification: derivinhttps://twitter.com/say_cemg structure from behavior". Artificial Intelligence 83 (1), 75-141
- A Yakaryılmaz, ACC Say "Unbounded-error quantum computation with small space bounds". Information and Computation 209 (6), 873-892