{"id":45,"date":"2021-03-24T05:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:29:47","slug":"about-me-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Academic position<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Full Professor<\/strong> in Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Education<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>BSc in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical Univ., Istanbul, 2002<\/li><li>MSc in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical Univ., Istanbul, 2004<\/li><li>PhD in Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical Univ., Istanbul, 2008<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>Google <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Scholar link<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com.tr\/citations?hl=tr&amp;user=PnCoNz8AAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com.tr\/citations?hl=tr&amp;user=PnCoNz8AAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicationslist.org\/cagataycatal\">http:\/\/publicationslist.org\/cagataycatal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Short Biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Cagatay Catal obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He later pursued his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, completing it in 2008. From 2020 to 2021, he held the position of Full Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Prior to that, he spent two years as a full-time faculty member at Wageningen University &amp; Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. Before his time at WUR, Dr. Catal worked for six years in the Department of Computer Engineering at Istanbul Kultur University, where he served as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department. In April 2014, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor by the Inter-University Council of Turkey. Before entering the academic field, Dr. Catal had 8 years of experience at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Information Technologies Institute, where he held the positions of Senior Researcher, Project Manager, and Senior Software Engineer. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering, Software Testing, Software Architecture, and Precision Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color\"><strong>Editorial Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Editor:<strong> IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics <\/strong>(TCYB) (Impact Factor (IF): 19.118) [2022-2023] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Editor: <strong>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems<\/strong> (IF: 14.255) [2022-2023]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Editor: <strong>Software Quality Journal <\/strong>(SQJ), Springer (IF: 1.813) [2022-2024]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Editor: <strong>Artificial Intelligence Review<\/strong>, Springer (IF: 9.5) [2022-2023]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic position Full Professor in Computer Science Education BSc in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical Univ., Istanbul, 2002 MSc in Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ccatal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}