Research Team
Dr Huseyin Seker
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New project funded by Innovate UK-KTP with PII Pipeline Solutions, a part of GE Oil & Gas (August 2016). See the job advert atDr Seker has organised the 4thinvited session “Bringing big data to its knees-IV: Advances in storing, mining and visualising big bio-medical data in the post-genomic era” at IEEE EMBC 2016 (17-20 August 2016, Orlando, FL, USA). This has been the 4th year running since 2013 in Osaka.
Dr Seker delivered an invited talk “Deep analysis of microscopic parasite images: Towards automating the detection of the parasites in farm animals” at 2016 International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC 2016) (August 3-5, 2016, Portsmouth, UK)
Dr Seker has received “Student-Led Teaching Award” (June 2016)
DrSeker delivered an invited talk “Making an impact with big data in the digital age: Challenges and Opportunities”, atICCIT 2016(11-12 April 2016, Istanbul, Turkey)
New project funded by Innovate UK-KTP with Lucion Environmental, a part of Lucion Services (March 2016). See the job advert at
DrSeker delivered an invited talk “Making the technology work for productive clinical practices in the big data era” atThe 6thInternational Performance and Quality in Health Care Congress(01-04 March 2016, Antalya, Turkey)
Journal Special Issue on “Big Data Mining using Efficient Fuzzy Systems”; Dr Huseyin Seker is the corresponding guest editor for the journal special issue on “Efficient fuzzy systems for mining large scale, imprecise, uncertain and vague data” to be published in International Journal of Fuzzy Systems.
Big Data Analytics Clinic has been launched
Dr Huseyin Seker has an invited special session “Bringing big data to its knees – III: Advances in storing, mining and visualising big bio-medical data in the post-genomic era” at IEEE EMBC 2015 (25-29 August 2015, Milan, Italy). This was previously organised in Osaka 2013 and Chicago 2014.
Dr Huseyin Seker delivers a keynote speech “Bio-Health Informatics in the Post-Genomic Era: Challenges in Bringing Self-Growing Bio-Health Data to its Knees” at ICCIT 2015 (28-29 April 2015, Ankara, Turkey)
Fully funded PhD position for the research project “Dynamic Fuzzy Deep Learning for Mining Big Biological Data” (Deadline for application: 31 March 2015)
CISAPS webserver is now available. This is a part of the recently accepted journal paper “Complex Informational Spectrum for the Analysis of Protein Sequences” in Advances in Bioinformatics. The webserver along with its user manual can be accessed at
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to participate in “Engineering and Control of Natural and Synthetic Microbial Communities Workshop” at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Cambridge in 26-28 November 2014
AIHLS2014chaired by Dr Huseyin Seker, has taken place successfully
Dr Huseyin Seker has two invited special sessions at IEEE EMBC 2014 (Chicago, USA, 26-30 August 2014).
(1) "Bringing big data to its knees - II; Advances in storing, mining and visualising big bio-medical data in the post-genomic era"
(2) "Skin Cancer Imaging and Image Classification”
Dr Huseyin Seker has received an invitation and full funding from the University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to attend the workshop on "Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Aspects of the New Science of Metagenomics" (24-28 March 2014).
The group members (H.Seker, A. Orun and E. Goodyear) have been awarded a project funding to work on “Development of novel non-invasive diagnostic tools for early signs of diseases by use of comprehensive laser speckle imaging methods and computational intelligence”. The project will last 9 months commencing in October 2013.
AIHLS2013, chaired by Dr Huseyin Seker, has taken place successfully.
IABC2013, Intensive Applied Bioinformatics Course, organised and coordinated by Dr Seker, has taken place successfully.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to act as the co-chair of special track "Informatics in Biological Systems" atIFMBE International Conference on Health Informaticsin Vilamoura, Portugal on 7-9 November, 2013.IFMBE (The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering)is the world largest organization focusing on biomedical engineering.
Dr Huseyin Seker is charing a panel discussion on"The Analysis of Big Bio-Medical Data: Industrial and Academic Views"atIEEE EMBC 2013. EMBC 2013 is the 35th annual conference ofIEEE EMBSbeing the most prestigious and largest of its kind.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to be the Special Session Chair forIEEE BIBE 2013being one of the most prestigious and well established conferences in its field.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk on "Information Fusion and Data Mining Makes Biosensors Even Smarter" inGraduate Summer School on ‘Recent Advances in Biosensor Design and Applications’(1-8 September 2013, Bodrum, Turkey).
Dr Huseyin Seker is chairing theInternational Conference on Applied Informatics for Health and Life Sciences(9-11 September 2013, Istanbul, Turkey).
Dr Huseyin Seker, in collaboration with DONEGENETIK and Istanbul University, has organised “Intensive Applied Bioinformatics Course” (7-8 September 2013, Istanbul, Turkey).
IEEE EMBC 2013 Invited Special Session:Dr Huseyin Seker is organising theinvited special session“Bringing big data to its knees; Advances in computational discovery of life-saving knowledge from big bio-medical data” atIEEE EMBC 2013(Osaka, Japan, 3-7 July 2013).
New research funding:The research team (Dr Goodyear, Dr Seker and Dr Smith) has won a research funding to work on computational identification of skin types. This will help further extend the previously funded project “Expert System Development for the Detection of Melanoma (Skin Cancer)” led by Dr Smith and Dr Seker.
Group memberssuccesfully defended their PhDs:Group members, Norbert Nwankwo and CharalambosChrysostomou, successfully defended their PhDs. We congratulate Dr Nwankwo and Dr Chrysostomou on their hard work and success, and wish them very best for the future.
Invited Speaker at International Congress of Molecular Medicine:Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk on Computational Discovery of Biomarkers in Molecular Medicine in the Post-Genome Era at the5th International Congress of Molecular Medicine(Elazig, 27-30 June 2013).
Keynote speaker at Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress:Dr Huseyin Seker delivered his keynote speech at theInternational ITU 6th Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress(Istanbul, 27-30 August 2012).
IEEE EMBC 2012 Special Session:Dr Huseyin Seker has orginised and is charing the special session on Recent Advances and Challenges in Data Mining in Bio-Medicine at theIEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics(Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, 5-7 January, 2012).
Speaker at MEDILINK:Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk atMEDILINK East Midlands Bioinformatics and Biomarker Discovery Special Interest Group
Attended to Uni. of Cambridge workshop funding:Dr Huseyin Seker received full funding from Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge) to attend four workshops onInverse ProblemsandDesign of Experimentsin July-September 2011.
Professor James Bezdek's visit:Professor James Bezdek, who is our research collaborator, visited the university and delivered a talk on Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring in 22-26 August 2011.
BBC news for the skin cancer project:BBC newsfor the skin cancer project funded by HOPE foundation and supervised by Dr Geoff Smith and Dr Huseyin Seker
HOPE research project funding:Dr Geoff Smith and Dr Huseyin Seker have been awarded a research project funding by the HOPE foundation to work on Expert System Development for the Detection of Melanoma (Skin Cancer). Mr. Martin Mueller-Holtz has been found successful to work on the project as a PhD researcher. The three-year project started in April 2011.
Keynote speaker at ICMM 2011:Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited as a key note speaker at the4th International Congress of Molecular Medicine (27-30 June 2011)to give a talk on Recent Advances in Bioinformatics for Molecular Medicine. He also organised and chaired a special session on
Bioinformatics in Molecular Medicine: Recent Applications, Developments and Challenges
Keynote speaker at ICBB 2011:Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited as a key note speaker at The International Congress on Bioinformatics and Biomics (18-22 May 2011) to give a talk on recent advances and challenges in the computational discovery of biomarkers for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
Uni. of Cambridge workshop funding:Dr Huseyin Seker received funding from University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to attend the workshop on Statistical Challenges Arising from Genome Re-sequencing
IEEE EMBC 2010 Special Session:Dr Huseyin Seker organised a special session on “Advances in Signal and Image Processing and Computational Intelligence Methods in the Post-Genome Era” at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Argentina, 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2010)
IEEE WCCI 2010 Special Session:Dr Huseyin Seker, in collaboration with Prof. James Bezdek, organised a special session on “Advances in clustering methods and their applications” at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (Spain, 18-23 July 2010)