Curriculum Vitae BÜLENT YILMAZ bulent.yilmaz@zirve.edu.tr Electrical-Electronics Engineering Dept. Zirve University, Gaziantep, Türkiye (ph)+90.342.211.6852 RESEARCH INTERESTS Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Electrocardiographic Mapping and Arrhythmias Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology Sleep Signal Analysis Scientific Computing EDUCATION PhD 2000-2004 Supervisor: Robert S. MacLeod, PhD Institution: Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Dissertation title: Statistical Estimation of Epicardial Activation-Time Maps Using Intravenous Multielectrode Catheter Measurements MSc 1997-1999 Supervisor: F. Ruyal Ergul, PhD Institution: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Thesis Title: A Fiber-Optic Loop Memory Structure Based on Coherent Optical Code Division Multiple Access BS 1992-1997 Institution: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey WORK EXPERIENCE Vocational School Director Aug 10-present Zirve University, Gaziantep Department Chair Sept 09-present Zirve University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Gaziantep Associate Professor July 10-present Zirve University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Gaziantep Assistant Professor Sept 09-July 10
Zirve University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Gaziantep School of Engineering Executive Committee Member Jan 06-Jan 09 Başkent University, Ankara Department Vice Chair Nov 05-Sep 09 Başkent University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Ankara Assistant Professor Sept 05-present Başkent University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Ankara Instructor Sept 04-Sept 05 Başkent University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Ankara Research Assistant 2000-2004 University of Utah, Department of Bioengineering, Utah, USA Teaching Assistant Spring 2003 University of Utah, Department of Bioengineering, Utah, USA Teaching Assistant 1997-1999 Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ankara Intern 1996-1997 GSM Cell Phone Production Department, Military Electronics Inc. (ASELSAN), Ankara Intern Summer 1995 Digital Multiplexing Systems, Post, Telephone and Telegraph Association, Çanakkale COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Fundamentals of Electronics Physiology for Engineers II Signals and Systems Medical Electronics Computer Applications in Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Signal Processing I Biomedical Signal Processing II Bioelectricity and Biomagnetism (Graduate Level) Advanced Scientific Computing (Graduate Level) Advanced Mathematical Physiology (Graduate Level)
Biomedical Signals and Devices (Graduate Level) Thesis Supervised MSc Thesis Cunedioğlu, U., 3-Dimensional Simulation of Electrical Activity of the Heart using Aliev-Panfilov Model, Başkent University, 2005-2007. Çiftçi, E., Shockwave Simulation in Lithotripsy and Wave Performance Optimization, Başkent University, 2006-2009. Erden, M. D., Application of Inverse Solution Techniques for Epileptic Source Localization, Başkent University, 2006-2009. Baysoy, E., Usage of Interpolation and Statistical Estimation Methods for Catheter-based Cardiac Mapping, Başkent University, 2007-2009. Arıkan, E., Investigation of QT dispersion in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Patients, Başkent University, 2006-2009. PhD Thesis Sunay, A. S., Clustering and Classification Applications for Focal Ventricular Arrhythmia Source Localization, Başkent University, 2006-2010. PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles 1. The Impact of Subconjuctivally Injected EGF and VEGF Inhibitor on Experimental Corneal Neovascularization in Rat Model Ender Şener, Nursen Yüksel, D. Kürşat Yıldız, Bülent Yılmaz, Özdemir Özdemir, Yusuf Çağlar, Esra Değirmenci, Current Eye Research (Accepted), 2011. 2. Sleep Stage and Obstructive Apneaic Epoch Classification Using Single-Lead ECG Bülent Yılmaz, Musa H. Asyalı, Eren Arıkan, Fuat Özgen, Sinan Yetkin. Biomedical Engineering Online, 9:39, 2010. 3. Usage of Spline Interpolation in Catheter-Based Cardiac Mapping Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Engin Baysoy. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 18(6), 989-1002, 2010. 4. Simultaneous Mapping of Endocardium and Epicardium from Multielectrode Intrachamber and Intravenous Catheters: A Computer Simulation-Based Validation Engin Baysoy, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz, Journal of Electrocardiology, 43(1), 56-62, 2009. 5. Combination of Computer Simulations and Experimental Measurements as the Training Dataset for Statistical Estimation of Epicardial Activation Maps from Venous Catheter Recordings Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 26(1), 70 81, 2009.
6. Feasibility of Probabilistic Neural Networks, Kohonen SOM and Fuzzy Clustering for Source Localization of Ventricular Focal Arrhythmias from Intravenous Catheter Measurements Ahmet Sertaç Sunay, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. Expert Systems, 26(1), 70 81, 2009. 7. Source Localization of Focal Ventricular Arrhythmias using Linear Estimation, Correlation, and Back Propagation Networks Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu. Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37: 1437 1445, 2007. 8. Epicardial Potential Distribution Reconstruction from Recordings of Intravenous and Transthoracic Mapping Catheters: A Feasibility Study Bülent Yılmaz. Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 29: 937 945, 2007. 9. Inhibitory Effects of Topical Thymoquinone on Corneal Neovascularization Erdurmus M, Yagci R, Yilmaz B, Hepsen IF, Turkmen C, Aydin B, Karadag R. Cornea, vol. 26(6):715-719, 2007 10. General Purpose Training Set Selection for Statistical Estimation of Ectopic Epicardial Activation using Venous Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod. Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37: 328-336, 2007. 11. Venous Catheter Mapping of Epicardial Ectopic Activation: Training Set Selection for Statistical Estimation Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, Bonnie B. Punske, Bruno Taccardi, Dana H. Brooks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 52(11):1823-1831, 2005. 12. Multielectrode Venous Catheter Mapping as a High Quality Constraint for Electrocardiographic Inverse Solution Yesim Serinagaoglu, Robert S. MacLeod, Bülent Yılmaz, Dana H. Brooks. Journal of Electrocardiology; vol. 35(4): 65-74, 2002. 13. The Role of Heart Rate in Myocardial Ischemia from Restricted Coronary Perfusion Robert S. MacLeod, Bonnie B. Punske, Bulent Yilmaz, Shibaji Shome, Bruno Taccardi. Journal of Electrocardiology; vol. 34: 43-51, 2001. 14. Effects of Heart Position on the Body-Surface ECG Robert S. MacLeod, Quan Ni, Bonnie Punske, Philip R. Ershler, Bülent Yılmaz, Bruno Taccardi. Journal of Electrocardiology; vol. 33: 229-37, 2000. National Journal Articles 1. Epicardial Activation Mapping from Transcoronary and Transpericardial Catheter Measurements: A Canine Heart Model, Bülent Yılmaz, Türk Aritmi, Pacemaker ve Elektrofizyoloji Dergisi, Ekim 2006. International Conference Articles 1. Usage of Cardiac Simulation Results in Source Localization of Focal Epicardial Arrhythmias using Statistical Estimation Uğur Cunedioğlu, Engin Baysoy, Bülent Yılmaz, Proceedings of the 30th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 20-24 August 2008. 2. Estimation of Source of Venticular Focal Arrhythmias using Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps and Probabilistic Neural Networks, A.Sertaç Sunay, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz, INISTA 2007, İstanbul, Türkiye. 20-23 June 2007. 3. Arrhythmia Source Localization from Intravenous and Transthoracic Catheter Measurements, Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Oğuzhan Çakır, Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, New York City, New York, USA. 30 August - 3 September, 2006. 4. Instance Selection for Estimation of Epicardial Activation Sequence from Venous Catheter Measurements, Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, New York City, New York, USA. 30 August - 3 September, 2006. 5. Selection of the Number and Location of Leads Catheter Based Epicardial Mapping, Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, BEM/NFSI Conference, 12-15 May 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 6. Venous Catheter Based Mapping of Epicardial Ectopic Activation Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, San Francisco, California, USA. 1-5 September, 2004. 7. Training Set Selection for Statistical Estimation of Epicardial Mapping from Intravenous Multielectrode Catheters Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, Bonnie B. Punske, Bruno Taccardi. Journal of Electrocardiology; vol. 36 page. 40-41, 2003. (Abstract), ISCE 2003 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 8. Minimally Invasive Epicardial Activation Mapping from Multielectrode Catheters Bülent Yılmaz, Robert S. MacLeod, Shibaji Shome, Bonnie B. Punske, Bruno Taccardi. IEEE BMES 23. International Conference; vol: 1, page 290-293, 25-28 October 2001, İstanbul, Türkiye. National Conference Articles 1. Cerrahi Operasyonlarda Hasta Vücudunda Unutulan Ameliyat Malzemelerinin Tespitine Yönelik Cihaz Tasarımı ve İmalatı Batuhan Yarıkkaş, İ. Cengiz Koçum, Bülent Yılmaz BİYOMUT 2010. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Antalya, Türkiye, 2010. 2. Tek Kanallı EKG Kayıtlarından Uyku Evrelemesi Yapılmasında knn ve Kuadratik Diskriminant Analizi Yöntemlerinin Kullanılması Bülent Yılmaz, Eren Arıkan, Musa H. Asyalı. BİYOMUT 2010, National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Antalya, Türkiye, 2010.
3. Başkent Üniversitesi Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Lisans Programı Tanıtımı, Mehmet F. Akşahin, Bülent Yılmaz. Electrical Electronics Computer Biomedical Engineering Education IV. National Symposium, Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2009. 4. Başkent Üniversitesi Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Lisans Programındaki Bitirme Projeleri Tecrübesi, Serian Yazgı, Bülent Yılmaz. Electrical Electronics Computer Biomedical Engineering Education IV. National Symposium, Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2009. 5. Siklooksijenaz-2 İnhibisyonu Farelerde Strese Bağlı Öğrenme-Bellek Bozulmasını Potansiyalize Eder R. Erdem, E. K. Şimşek, D. Türkbey, B. C. Çelik, E. Kocaman, F. Keskin, Ş. Kosdak, B. Yılmaz. 20. National Pharmacology Congress, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009. 6. Elektrohidrolik Litotripside Kullanılan Şok Dalgasının Benzetimi ve Dalga Performansının Eniyilenmesi Emre Çiftçi, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2009. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İzmir, Türkiye, 2009. 7. Kalbin İç ve Dış Yüzeylerinin Aynı Anda Haritalanması İçin İstatistiksel Kestirim Yönteminin Kullanılması Uğur Cunedioğlu, Engin Baysoy, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2009. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İzmir, Türkiye, 2009. 8. Ekokardiyografi Görüntülerindeki Gerginlik Oranının MATLAB kullanılarak İncelenmesi Aykut Eken, Kemal Şerbetçi, Omaç Tüfekçioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz, BİYOMUT 2009. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İzmir, Türkiye, 2009. 9. Endokardiyal Aritmilerin Katetere Dayalı Haritalanması için Yeni Konumsal Aradeğerleme Yöntemleri Engin Baysoy, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. SİU 2009. Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference; Antalya, Türkiye, 2009. 10. Kalbin İç Yüzeyininin Elektriksel Haritalanmasındaki Seyrek Ölçüm Problemi için Konumsal AradeğerlemeTekniklerinin Kullanılması Engin Baysoy, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Ankara, Türkiye, 2008. 11. Deneysel Ektopik Aktivasyon Zamanı Haritaları ile Hücresel Otomata ve Aliev-Panfilov Modeline Dayalı Bilgisayar Benzetim Sonuçlarının Karşılaştırılması, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Oğuzhan Çakır, Engin Baysoy, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Ankara, Türkiye, 2008. 12. İstatistiksel Kestirim Yöntemiyle Aritmi Kaynağı Tesbitinde Bilgisayarlı Benzetim Sonuçlarının Kullanılması Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Engin Baysoy. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Ankara, Türkiye, 2008. 13. Hayvanların Konumsal Davranışlarının İncelenmesi için Matlab Tabanlı bir Görüntü İşleme Yazılımı Geliştirilmesi Meltem Yorulmaz,
Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Ankara, Türkiye, 2008. 14. Türkiye de Türünün İlk Örneği: Başkent Üniversitesi Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Lisans Programı Bülent Yılmaz, Hüseyin Akçay. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; Ankara, Türkiye, 2008. 15. Aliev-Panfilov Modeli Kullanarak Kalbin Elektriksel Aktivitesinin Üç Boyutlu Simülasyonu ve Deneysel Verilerle Karşılaştırılması, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Oğuzhan Çakır ve Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2007. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2007. 16. Elektrokardiyografik Geri Problem Çözümü için Regülarizasyon Araç Kutusu ve Kullanıcı Arayüzü Geliştirilmesi, Dilâra Türegün, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz, Yeşim Serinağaoğlu Doğrusöz. BİYOMUT 2007. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2007. 17. Toplardamar İçindeki ve Göğüs Kafesinden İçeriye Sokulan Kateterlerin Kalp Haritalaması için Eşzamanlı Kullanımı, Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu ve Oğuzhan Çakır. BİYOMUT 2006. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2006. 18. Kalbin Dış Yüzeyinin Elektriksel Haritalamasında Aradeğerleme Tekniklerinin Kullanılması, Bülent Yılmaz, Oğuzhan Çakır, Uğur Cunedioğlu ve Volkan Tuncay. BİYOMUT 2006. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2006. 19. Manyetik Rezonans Görüntüleri Kullanarak Beyin Tümörünün Görüntüden Ayrıştırılması ve Hacminin Belirlenmesinde Yarı-Otomatik Bir Yöntem, Cem Türkmen, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Feride Kural ve Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2006. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2006. 20. Yapay Sinir Ağları kullanarak Ektopik Epikardiyal Aktivasyonun Venöz-katetere dayalı Haritalanması, Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cünedioğlu. BİYOMUT 2005. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; İstanbul, Türkiye, 2005. MS Thesis A Fiber-Optic Loop Memory Structure Based on Coherent Optical Code Division Multiple Access Bülent Yılmaz, November 1999, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. PhD Dissertation Venous Catheter Based Mapping of Epicardial Ectopic Activation using Statistical Estimation Bülent Yılmaz, December 2004, Utah University, Salt Lake City, USA. RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal Investigator: Application of Computer Modeling and Numerical Analysis Methods for the Problems Encountered in Cardiac Mapping used in Arrhythmia Source Localization TUBITAK Career Establishment Award 2006-2009. Investigator: Reconstruction of Epicardial Activation Pattern from Venous Catheter Recordings, Whitaker Foundation, USA, 2000-2004. Project Coordinator: Technical Personnel Education for Electricity Quality and Security State Planning Organization, 2010-2011. SERVED AS A REVIEWER Journals: Projects: Journal of Medical Systems (Springer) International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (Springer) Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) Expert Systems (Elsevier) Journal of Electrocardiology (Elsevier) Anatolian Cardiology Journal (ANAKARDER) Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Politeknik, Gazi University Publication TÜBİTAK TEYDEB Projects TÜBİTAK 1001 Projects T.C. Sanayi ve Ticaret Bakanlığı, Teknogirişim Projects TTGV Projects Erciyes University BAP Project Conferences: National Biomedical Engineering Conference (BİYOMUT) 2010, Antalya, Türkiye Electrical Electronics Computer Biomedical Engineering Education IV. National Symposium, 2009, Eskişehir, Türkiye. National Biomedical Engineering Conference (BİYOMUT) 2008, Ankara, Türkiye International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT) 2007, Antalya, Türkiye
International Congress on Electrocardiology (ICE) 2007, İstanbul, Türkiye COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: C, Pascal Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows OSs, and Mac OSX Software: Matlab, Labview, LaTeX ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Marital status: Married with two children Military service: Completed military service in October 2003 Languages: Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (elementary) Hobbies: Reading, hiking, traveling