Ahmet Ercan Topcu

Associate Professor

Ahmadi, Kuwait

About

Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSc) in Ankara, Turkey Syracuse University, Computer Engineering (MSc), Syracuse, New York, USA Indiana University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Computer Science (Ph.D.), Bloomington, Indiana, USA * Worked as an IT consultant at CCT center at Louisiana State University, US. * Worked as a researcher at Pervasive Technology Laboratory in Bloomington Indiana, US. * As the head of the IT department in the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology, he completed many software projects. * He developed original projects on cloud and grid computing applications. * Expert in data analytics and machine learning. * He has academic studies on the blockchain. * For many years, he was a member of the open-source code committee at TUBITAK in Turkey. * He was involved in research and industrial projects' evaluation committees for more than three years. * Many software projects he has been consulting have become software products.

Experience

  • American University of the Middle East (AUM) (Full-time · 7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Associate Professor
      Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Assistant Professor
      Sep 2018 - Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Co-Founder at Yartu
    Jun 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

  • Chief Technology Officer at TrueFeedBack at Truefeedback
    Mar 2021 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs

  • Assistant Professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi
    Jun 2011 - Sep 2020 · 9 yrs 4 mos

  • Head Of Information Technology at T.C. Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı | Republic Of Turkey Ministry of Industry and Technology
    May 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos