{"id":57,"date":"2021-10-08T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:41:09","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ali Karakus<\/strong>               <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1320\" class=\"wp-image-256\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/03\/ali_karakus_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/03\/ali_karakus_2.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/03\/ali_karakus_2-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/03\/ali_karakus_2-962x1024.jpg 962w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/03\/ali_karakus_2-768x818.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. His research interests include CFD, high-order methods, multiphase flows, and scientific computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Onur Ata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-278\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/06\/onur.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/06\/onur.jpeg 849w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/06\/onur-249x300.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2023\/06\/onur-768x926.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He is a Ph.D. candidate of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. He studied the development of a compressible RANS solver with adaptive mesh refinement in his MSc study. His current research involves adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods on GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atakan Ayg\u00fcn <\/strong>              <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2186\" class=\"wp-image-338\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-300x256.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-1024x874.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-768x656.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-1536x1312.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2026\/03\/AtakanAygun_smaller-2048x1749.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He is a Ph.D. candidate of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. He studied physics-informed neural networks and their applications to CFD in his MSc study. His current research involves moving boundary problems using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian discontinuous Galerkin methods on GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hakan Ta\u015f<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1448\" class=\"wp-image-324\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/hakan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/hakan.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/hakan-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/hakan-764x1024.jpeg 764w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/hakan-768x1030.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a MSc student of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. His current research involves multiphase Boltzmann equations and discontinuous Galerkin methods on GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Ferhat Kaya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"wp-image-322\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/Ferhat_Kaya-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/Ferhat_Kaya-1.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/Ferhat_Kaya-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/04\/Ferhat_Kaya-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He is a MSc. student of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University and an aerodynamic design engineer at TUSAS Engine Industries. His current research involves physics informed machine learning and data-driven turbulence closure models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fatih Yaman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1441\" height=\"1643\" class=\"wp-image-329\" style=\"width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531.jpeg 1441w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531-263x300.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531-898x1024.jpeg 898w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531-768x876.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/files\/2025\/06\/Fatih-scaled-e1749481791531-1347x1536.jpeg 1347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1441px) 100vw, 1441px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a MSc. student of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. He works as aerodynamics design, analysis and test engineer at TUBITAK SAGE. His current research involves Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Karakus He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East Technical University. His research interests include CFD, high-order methods, multiphase flows, and scientific computing. Onur Ata He is a Ph.D. candidate of Mechanical Engineering @ Middle East <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/team\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/akarakus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}