Academic Positions

  • Present 2014

    Professor

    Hacettepe University, Department of Economics

  • 2014 2008

    Assoc. Professor

    Hacettepe University, Department of Economics

  • 2008 2008

    Postdoc Fellow

    University of Toronto KIS Lab, MIE

  • 2008 2007

    Asst. Professor

    Hacettepe University, Department of Economics

  • 2006 2006

    Postdoc Fellow

    University of Toronto KIS Lab, MIE

  • 2007 2005

    Lecturer

    Hacettepe University, Department of Economics

  • 2005 2003

    Postdoc Fellow

    University of Toronto KIS Lab, MIE

  • 2003 2001

    Researcher

    University of Toronto KIS Lab, MIE

  • 1990 1988

    Research Assistant

    Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Electric and Electronic Eng

Education & Training

  • Ph.D. 2003

    Ph.D. in Economics

    Hacettepe University

  • M.A.1997

    M.A. in Economics

    Hacettepe University

  • B.S.1987

    Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

    Middle East Technical University

Industrial Experience, Awards

  • IIC Fuzzy Corp. 2002-2005
    Senior Researcher, Toronto, Canada
    Projects: Application of the Fuzzy System Modeling to predict creditworthiness of credit card holders of a major Canadian Bank (using Matlab, SPSS & Mathematica); Application of Rule Based Fuzzy System Modelling (RBFSM) to predict the income and wealth of the customers of a major Canadian Bank (using Matlab & SAS); Implementation of Possibilistic C-mean Clustering (PCM) in C++; System level design specification of Data-Mining by using RBFSM; Technical design of Rule Based Fuzzy System Modeling.
  • Ericsson Research 1999-2000
    Design Engineer, Montreal, Canada
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    Research on SS7 based interfaces over IP in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS-GSM 03.60). This research resulted in international patent titled 'Mobile Terminal Handover From a Second Generation Network to a Third Generation IP-Based Netweork'. (WIPO Patent Application WO/2001/031963)
  • Siemens 1991-1996
    R&D Engineer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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    SW Projects: Design and Implementation of CCS No 7 Signaling System for Turkey; Country Adaptation of Small Digital Exchange Software for Turkey and Ex-Soviet countries.
  • Simko 1991-1998
    R&D Engineer, Ankara, Turkey
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    SW Projects: Design and Coding of "CCBS, RCF, CM" software parts for small digital exchange; Implementation of CCS No 7 Signaling System for small digital exchange.
  • Turk Telekom 1990-1991
    Telecom Engineer, Ankara, Turkey
    Worked as Telecom Engineer. Received Best Project Turk-Telecom R&D Award, Concentrator Design Project in 1991
  • Turk Telekom 1987-1988
    Telecom Engineer, Ankara, Turkey
    Worked as Telecom Engineer.

Tubitak Projects

  • 2013-2014
    Researcher, Ankara, Turkey
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    Exchange Rate Pass Through: Time varying nature and its determinants (Project No: 113K389).
  • 2011-2012
    Project Manager, Hacettepe, Turkey
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    International Transfers of Business Cycles: Where is Turkish Economy? (Project No: 110K451). Two papers published: (i) Ozkan, I., & Erden, L. International transmission of business cycles to Turkey. Iktisat Isletme ve Finans, 27(320), 9-34. (2012) and (ii) Erden, L., & Ozkan, I. (2014). Determinants of international transmission of business cycles to Turkish economy. Economic Modelling, 36, 383-390.