Curriculum Vitae

 

 

BÜLENT YILMAZ                                       byilmaz@baskent.edu.tr

Biomedical Engineering Dept. Baskent University, 06530 Ankara, Türkiye     (ph)+90.312.234.1010-1324 (fax)+90.312.234.1051

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
  • Electrocardiographic Mapping and Arrhythmias
  • Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • 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

  • MS                                                                                                      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

  • Department Vice Chair                                                       Nov 05-present

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

  • BME 101 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
  • BME 308 Physiology for Engineers II
  • BME 321 Signals and Systems
  • BME 323 Medical Electronics
  • BME 332 Computer Applications in Biomedical Engineering
  • BME 401 Biomedical Signal Processing I
  • BME 402 Biomedical Signal Processing II
  • BME 520 Bioelectricity and Biomagnetism (Graduate Level)
  • BME 517 Advanced Scientific Computing (Graduate Level)
  • BME 502 Advanced Mathematical Physiology (Graduate Level)

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

1.    “A Novel FDTD-Based Computer Simulation Platform for Shock Wave Propagation in Electrohydrolic Lithotripsy” Bülent Yılmaz,Emre Çiftçi, (submitted), 2009.

2.    “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, (accepted) 2009.

3.    “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.

4.    “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, vol. 26(1), 70–81, 2009.

5.    “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.

6.    “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.

7.    “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

8.    “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.

9.    “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.  

10. “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.

11. “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.

12. “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.    “Elektrohidrolik Litotripside Kullanılan Şok Dalgasının Benzetimi ve Dalga Performansının Eniyilenmesi” Emre Çiftçi, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2009. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 20-23 May 2009, İzmir, Türkiye.

2.    “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; 20-23 May 2009, İzmir, Türkiye.

3.    “Ekokardiyografi Görüntülerindeki Gerginlik Oranının MATLAB kullanılarak İncelenmesi” Aykut Eken, Kemal Şerbetçi, Omaç Tüfekçioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz, BİYOMUT 2009. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 20-23 May 2009, İzmir, Türkiye.

4.    “Endokardiyal Aritmilerin Katetere Dayalı Haritalanması için Yeni Konumsal Aradeğerleme Yöntemleri” Engin Baysoy, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. SİU 2009. Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference; 9-11 April 2009, Antalya, Türkiye.

5.    “Kalbin İç Yüzeyininin Elektriksel Haritalanmasındaki Seyrek Ölçüm Problemi için Konumsal AradeğerlemeTekniklerinin Kullanılması” Engin Baysoy, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 29-31 May 2008, Ankara, Türkiye.

6.    “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; 29-31 May 2008, Ankara, Türkiye.

7.    “İstatistiksel Kestirim Yöntemiyle Aritmi Kaynağı Tesbitinde Bilgisayarlı Benzetim Sonuçlarının Kullanılması” Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Engin Baysoy. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 29-31 May 2008, Ankara, Türkiye.

8.    “Hayvanların Konumsal Davranışlarının İncelenmesi için Matlab Tabanlı bir Görüntü İşleme Yazılımı Geliştirilmesi” Meltem Yorulmaz, Uğur Cunedioğlu, Bülent Yılmaz. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 29-31 May 2008, Ankara, Türkiye.

9.    “Türkiye’de Türünün İlk Örneği: Başkent Üniversitesi Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Lisans Programı” Bülent Yılmaz, Hüseyin Akçay. BİYOMUT 2008. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 29-31 May 2008, Ankara, Türkiye.

10. “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; 22-23 May 2007, İstanbul, Türkiye.

11. “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; 22-23 May 2007, İstanbul, Türkiye.

12. “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; 25-28 May 2006, İstanbul, Türkiye.

13. “Kalbin Dış Yüzeyinin Elektriksel Haritalamasında Aradeğerleme Tekniklerinin Kullanılması”, Bülent Yılmaz, Oğuzhan Çakır, Uğur Cunedioğlu ve Volkan Tuncay. BİYOMUT 2006. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 25-28 May 2006, İstanbul, Türkiye.

14. “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; 25-28 May 2006, İstanbul, Türkiye.

15. “Yapay Sinir Ağları kullanarak Ektopik Epikardiyal Aktivasyonun Venöz-katetere dayalı Haritalanması”, Bülent Yılmaz, Uğur Cünedioğlu. BİYOMUT 2005. National Biomedical Engineering Conference; 25-27 May 2005, İstanbul, Türkiye.

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.

SERVED AS A REVIEWER

  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Expert Systems
  • Journal of Electrocardiology (Elsevier)
  • Anatolian Cardiology Journal (ANAKARDER)
  • Politeknik, Gazi University Publication
  • TÜBİTAK TEYDEB Projects
  • Erciyes University BAP Project
  • 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