Dr Faruk Bulut
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Wednesday 09:00-11:00
Profile
Biography
Dr Faruk Bulut is a professor and currently serves as a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) at the University of Essex. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2015, with a dissertation titled "Construction and Performance Analysis of Locally Adaptive Base and Ensemble Learners." He also holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Istanbul, completed in 2010, with a thesis titled "Detecting Students at Risk of Substance Abuse by Using Data Mining Classification Algorithms," and a B.Sc. degree in Computer and Electronics Education from the Faculty of Technical Education at Marmara University, completed in 1998. Following his undergraduate education, he dedicated more than fifteen years to training talented high school students for national and international informatics Olympiads. As an official tutor and instructor, he taught advanced topics such as C/C++ programming, Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms, graph theory, computational geometry, discrete mathematics, and critical thinking. He also trained university students for the programming contests of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) organized by ACM. His efforts particularly focused on preparing contestans for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), an annual competition organized by UNESCO and hosted each year in a different country. In the IOI, each participating country sends up to four students to individually solve challenging algorithmic problems over two days using languages such as C/C++, Java, or Python. Under his mentorship, students earned more than 50 medals, including gold, silver, and bronze, in these coding fasts. He has more than 15 years of academic experience at several universities in Istanbul, serving as a lecturer, thesis advisor, and mentor to both national and international students. He also had the opportunity to serve as a department chair, contributing to the development of academic CS/CE programs, syllabuses, modules, and student support initiatives. Throughout his academic career, he has supervised 6 dissertations and has taken roles as a PI, researcher, or advisor in 15 academic and industry-funded projects. His research interests include ML, DL, image processing, computer vision, optimization methods, decision support systems, discrete mathematics, and graph theory. He has made contributions to both practical and theoretical advancements in areas such as classification performance prediction, financial forecasting, plant disease detection using HDR imagery, and AI-assisted evaluation of medical procedures. His research particularly focuses on meta-learning methods and ensemble models within machine learning. Dr Bulut has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, with over 25 journal articles indexed in SCI-E and Scopus, 4 book chapters, and more than 15 conference papers. He is an active reviewer for leading journals such as Elsevier’s Computers & Industrial Engineering and holds an editorial role in the journal J.UCS (TU Graz). He has reviewed nearly 200 research articles, proceedings, and participated in numerous MS and PhD thesis juries.
Qualifications
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PhD Yıldız Technical University, (2015)
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MSc Fatih University, (2010)
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BSc Marmara University, (1998)
Publications
Journal articles (25)
BEKTAŞ, M., YAVUZ, A. and BULUT, F., Salgın Hastalıklarla Mücadelede Açık Kaynak Kodlu Çözümler. İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi. 3 (1), 99-105
Bulut, F., Bankacılık Sektöründe Makine Öğrenmesi Yöntemleriyle Müşteri İlişkileri Yönetiminin Zenginleştirilmesi. European Journal of Science and Technology, 382-394
BULUT, F., Pascal Üçgeni, Kombinasyon ve Tümevarım Kullanarak Fibonacci Dizisinin N. Elemanını Bulma. El-Cezeri Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi. 4 (3), 429-435
BULUT, F. and OSMANI, S., Scene Change Detection using Different Color Pallets and Performance Comparison. Balkan Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 66-72
KÜPELİ, C. and BULUT, F., Görüntüdeki Tuz Biber ve Gauss Gürültülerine Karşı Filtrelerin Performans Analizleri. Haliç Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi. 3 (2), 211-239
BULUT, F., Huffman Algoritmasıyla Kayıpsız Hızlı Metin Sıkıştırma. El-Cezeri Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi. 3 (2)
BULUT, F., ÇOK KATMANLI ALGILAYICILAR İLE DOĞRU MESLEK TERCİHİ. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology-A Applied Sciences and Engineering. 17 (1)
Shehu, HA., Ince, IF. and Bulut, F., (2025). Enhancement of eye socket recognition performance using inverse histogram fusion images and the Gabor transform. ETRI Journal. 47 (1), 123-133
Bulut, F., Bektaş, M. and Yavuz, A., (2024). Efficient path planning of drone swarms over clustered human crowds in social events. International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems. 12 (1), 133-153
Bulut, F. and Ince, IF., (2023). Iterative histogram equalization using discrete wavelet transform in low-dynamic range. Journal of Electronic Imaging. 32 (02)
Ince, IF., Bulut, F., Kilic, I., Yildirim, ME. and Ince, OF., (2022). Low dynamic range discrete cosine transform (LDR-DCT) for high-performance JPEG image compression. The Visual Computer. 38 (5), 1845-1870
Bulut, F., Shehu, HA. and Ince, IF., (2022). Performance boosting of image matching-based iris recognition systems using deformable circular hollow kernels and uniform histogram fusion images. Journal of Electronic Imaging. 31 (05)
Uslu, MF., Uslu, S. and Bulut, F., (2022). An adaptive hybrid approach: Combining genetic algorithm and ant colony optimization for integrated process planning and scheduling. Applied Computing and Informatics. 18 (1/2), 101-112
Bulut, F., (2022). Low dynamic range histogram equalization (LDR-HE) via quantized Haar wavelet transform. The Visual Computer. 38 (6), 2239-2255
(2021). Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing for Emerging Multimedia Technology
Bulut, F., (2020). The minimum ratio of preserving the dataset similarity in resampling: (1 − 1/e). International Journal of Information Technology. 12 (1), 231-244
Ince, IF., Ince, OF. and Bulut, F., (2019). MID Filter: An Orientation-Based Nonlinear Filter For Reducing Multiplicative Noise. Electronics. 8 (9), 936-936
Ince, IF., Erdem, YS., Bulut, F. and Sharif, MH., (2019). A Low-Cost Pupil Center Localization Algorithm Based on Maximized Integral Voting of Circular Hollow Kernels. The Computer Journal. 62 (7), 1001-1015
Bulut, F., Kılıç, İ. and İnce, İF., (2018). Beyin Tümörü Tespitinde Görüntü Bölütleme Yöntemlerine Ait Başarımların Karşılaştırılması ve Analizi. Deu Muhendislik Fakultesi Fen ve Muhendislik. 20 (58), 173-186
Bulut, F. and Erol, MH., (2018). A Real-Time Dynamic Route Control Approach on Google Maps using Integer Programming Methods. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING. 9 (3), 189-202
BULUT, F., (2017). OBEZİTE RİSKİ ALTINDAKİ ÇOCUKLARIN ÖRNEK TABANLI SINIFLANDIRICI TOPLULUKLARIYLA TESPİTİ. Gazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 32 (1), 65-76
Bulut, F. and Amasyali, MF., (2017). Locally adaptive k parameter selection for nearest neighbor classifier: one nearest cluster. Pattern Analysis and Applications. 20 (2), 415-425
BULUT, FBULUT. and AMASYALI, MFAMASYALI., (2016). Katı Kümeleme ve Yeni Bir Geçiş Fonksiyonuyla Uzman Karışımlarında Sınıflandırma. Gazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 31 (4), 0-0
Bulut, F. and Fatih Amasyali, M., (2016). Classification in mixture of experts using hard clustering and a new gate function. Journal of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Gazi University. 31 (4), 1017-1025
BULUT, F. and BUCAK, İÖ., (2014). An urgent precaution system to detect students at risk of substance abuse through classification algorithms. TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES. 22 (3), 690-707
Book chapters (1)
Bulut, F., (2021). Locally-Adaptive Naïve Bayes Framework Design via Density-Based Clustering for Large Scale Datasets. In: Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics. IGI Global. 278- 292
Conferences (4)
Petrov, P., Dimitrov, P., Stoev, S., Dimitrov, G. and Bulut, F., (2020). USING THE UNIVERSAL TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION METHOD IN WEB APPLICATIONS BY SOFTWARE EMULATED DEVICE
Erol, MH. and Bulut, F., (2017). Real-time application of travelling salesman problem using Google Maps API
Bulut, F., (2016). Performance evaluations of supervised learners on imbalanced datasets
Bulut, F., (2016). Heart attack risk detection using Bagging classifier
Contact
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Wednesday 09:00-11:00
