Muhyeddin Ercan

Short Bio

Muhyeddin Ercan was born and raised in Turkey. He graduated  from Private Aziziye High School with an honor degree. He received his BS in Physics from Koc University, Turkey in 2008. He worked as a high school teacher in Istanbul for 2 years. Since received his MS degree from UCA Computer Science Department in 2012, he has been working as a Computer Science Teacher and High School College Counselor at TX. USA.

Thesis

"Fractal Methods as a Prognostic Factor to Determine Malignancy in Dermoscopy", MS in Applied Computing at UCA, May 2012.

Publications

  1. Sinan Kockara, Mutlu Mete, Tansel Halic, Nurcan Yuruk, Muhyeddin Ercan, Ashley Lawrence, "Fractals for Malignancy Detection in Dermoscopy Images", ICHI, 2015, 2015 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2015 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) 2015, pp. 115-121, doi:10.1109/ICHI.2015.21. 
  2. Muhyeddin Ercan, Brendan Lee, Sinan Kockara, “Mobile Melanoma Monitoring with Fast Density Based Lesion Detection (FDBLD)” The 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2012), Shanghai, China.
  3.  Bernard Chen, Sait Suer, Muhyeddin Ercan, Rahul Tada, Recep Avci, and Sinan Kockara, “Constructing      Super Rule Tree (SRT) for Protein Motif Clusters Using DBSCAN”, International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP2011), Las Vegas, NV, Proceeding pp.79~84.  

Award

3rd place in  the U.S. finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 for software design category. 
Team UCA Ursus — sophomore Brendan Lee of Alma and Muhyeddin Ercan, an international graduate student from Turkey — competed against students from Harvard, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, Central Connecticut State University, Wayne State University, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, Brigham Young University, University of California-Los Angeles and University of Arkansas-Little Rock.