Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography
Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe is an assistant teaching professor in the David L. Payne Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is a PhD candidate in computer science at University of Missouri-Columbia, with expected completion in Summer 2027. She received her MSc degree in computer science on biomedical image analysis from University of Missouri-Columbia. She received another MSc degree in Computer Engineering on software testing from Izmir Institute of Technology. She received her BSc in Software Engineering and BSc in Software Engineering in Yasar University.
In 2020, she worked at Siemens Healthineers as a medical imaging research intern in the cardiovascular USA team. In 2021, she worked at National Library of Medicine – National Institutes of Health as a medical image analysis research intern in the computational health research branch.
Her current research interest involves Image Processing, Biomedical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Software Testing, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithms.
Education
MSc in Computer Science from University of Missouri-Columbia
MSc in Computer Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology
BSc in Software Engineering from Yasar University
BSc in Mathematics from Yasar University