Burak Turhan
Research Unit Leader, Software Engineering And Information Systems (SEIS)
Finland
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Top SchoolBurak Turhan is a software engineering researcher and academic leader with over a decade of experience advancing development practices and software reliability. As Full Professor and Research Unit Leader at the University of Oulu (and adjunct at Monash), he blends scholarly rigor with operational leadership in academic administration and higher education finance. His work focuses on making development teams more effective through empirical research, translating findings into teaching and department-level strategy. He has held a sequence of leadership roles—from degree program coordinator to deputy and head positions—demonstrating sustained impact on curriculum, external engagement, and research unit management. Trained at Boğaziçi University (PhD), he combines deep computer science foundations with international research collaborations spanning Europe, Australia, and Canada. Colleagues describe him as a practical scholar who turns empirical insight into institutional improvements rather than abstract theory alone.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bursa Anatolian High SchoolPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
science7
machine-learning6
python6
data-analysis5
data-science5
javascript4
linux4
browser4
windows4
macos3
distribute3
electron3
brave2
github-enterprise2
github2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
M3SOulu/EATDD
Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:34 pushes in 2 years 3 months
turhanb/chapters
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningengineering
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