Data for Refugees Challenge (Project Coordinator) – Honorable Mention Award in Labor category, 2019.  http://d4r.turktelekom.com.tr/. Our project web site is http://d4r.metu.edu.tr

METU Academic Performance Award  (In recognition of academic productivity during the past three academic years), 2016.

NVIDIA CUDA Research Center Award, U.S., 2012

NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center Award, U.S., 2010

NVIDIA Research Grant, Professional Partnership Award, U.S., 2009.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Travel Grant (2005)

Royal Academy of Engineering Travel Grant (2005)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Panel Member in Felis 2017 (Felis Ödülleri 2017 Verinin Yaratıcı Kullanımı Bölümü Jüri Üyesi, https://www.felisodulleri.com/2017)

EU H2020- INFRAIA-02-2017: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities – Worked as an expert for evaluating projects, 2016, 2017

Reviewer in Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2017

Reviewer in IET Computer Journal, 2016, 2017

Reviewer in ACM Computing Surveys, 2016

Reviewer in Tubitak Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2016, 2017

Member of Computer and Informatics Commission in METU (2008-2018).

Programme Committee Member in BASARIM09 and BASARIM12 (Ulusal Yüksek Başarım ve Grid Konferansı)

Reviewer in Tübitak Teydeb Project, 1001 Projects 2007-2018.

Reviewer in IJCNN (International Joint Conference on Neural Networks) 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2016 Conferences

Reviewer in ISCTURKEY 2008 (Information Security and Cryptology Conference with International Participation)

Reviewer in Informatics for Health and Social Care Journal 2015.

Reviewer in Neurocomputing Journal 2007

Reviewer in Knowledge-based Systems Journal 2013, 2016-2018

Reviewer in USMOS 2007 Conference (Ulusal Savunma Uygulamaları Modelleme ve Simülasyon Konferansı)

Reviewer in EUROSIP 2006

EU 7th Framework Security Call Expert Evaluator (FP-SEC-2009 and FP-SEC-2010): Evaluated 14 collaborative and integrated projects in total (Expertise domain on data mining)