Honors, Grants and Awards

  • Oral Presentation Award - Ranked second among oral presentations - Coskun-Yildirim, M., Dag, O. Transform: An R Package for Statistical Transformations. 25th National and 8th International Biostatistics Congress in Sakarya, Turkey (2024).
  • Graduated with ORPHEUS Label from Integrated Ph.D. Program in Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University (2018).
  • Oral Presentation Award - Ranked third among oral presentations - Dag, O., Dolgun, A., Konar, N.M. One-Way Tests in Independent Groups Designs: the onewaytests Web Interface. 19th National and 2nd International Biostatistics Congress in Antalya, Turkey (2017).
  • Statement of Accomplishment for Machine Learning Course lectured by Andrew Ng, from Stanford University, in Coursera (2015).
  • Course Performance Award from Middle East Technical University - Ranked first in CGPA among the M.S. students who completed all courses in Department of Statistics during 2012-2013 academic year (2014).
  • Best Paper Award - Dag, O., Asar, O., Ilk, O. Estimating Box-Cox Power Transformation Parameter Via Goodness-of-Fit Tests. y-BIS 2013: Joint Meeting of Young Business and Industrial Statisticians in Istanbul, Turkey (2013).
  • Travel and Accommodation Grant from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to attend y-BIS 2013: Joint Meeting of Young Business and Industrial Statisticians in Istanbul, Turkey (2013).
  • Conference Grant from Bernoulli Society and Institute of Mathematical Statistics to attend 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul, Turkey (2012), (exempted from all expenses).
  • Travel Grant from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to attend 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul, Turkey (2012).
  • Conference Grant from Bernoulli Society and Institute of Mathematical Statistics to attend Pre-world-congress Meeting of Young Researchers in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul, Turkey (2012), (exempted from all expenses).
  • Graduated as a High Honor Student from Middle East Technical University (2012).

    • Scholarships & Fellowships

  • International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK - 2219) (September, 2023 - January, 2024).
  • Entrepreneurship Support Program from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK - 1512) (July, 2019 - June, 2020).
  • National PhD Scholarship Program for Ph.D. Students from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK - 2211) (October, 2014 - December, 2018).