Mehmet Yirik
Assistant Professor at Bahcesehir University
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolMehmet Yirik is an assistant professor and mathematician specializing in computational drug design, translating theoretical algorithms into practical tools for drug discovery. With nine years of research experience spanning a PhD in Informatics and postdoctoral work on mathematical modeling of chemical reaction networks at SDU, he builds open-source software such as a molecular structure generator and a protein–ligand extraction toolkit. His work bridges rigorous mathematical modeling and hands-on algorithmic implementation, enabling reproducible computational chemistry workflows. Based between Istanbul and Odense, he combines academic leadership with active open-source development, emphasizing tools that make theoretical insights directly usable in drug discovery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at Friedrich Schiller University JenaBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Mimar Sinan University of Fine ArtsMaster of Science - MS Computational Sciences and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computational Sciences and Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish, German
Github Skills (27)
uniprot9
mathematical9
graph9
bioinformatics9
chemistry9
cheminformatics8
python-requests8
theory8
mathematics8
java8
development-kit8
webservice7
http7
python7
dynamodb6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MehmetAzizYirik/HMD
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
HMD (Hyperfast Molecule Deriver) is a molecular structure generator.
Contributions:26 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
hmdmoleculemolecular
MehmetAzizYirik/PartGen
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
Integer Partitioning Based Structure Generator
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 2 years 1 month
partitioning
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