Mehmet Yirik
Assistant Professor at Bahcesehir University
Odense, Region of Southern Denmark, 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.
9 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 (35)
theory9
java9
mathematical9
cheminformatics9
python-requests9
bioinformatics9
chemistry9
graph8
mathematics8
uniprot8
development-kit7
http7
dynamodb7
python7
mongodb6
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/AlgorithmicGroupTheory
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Algorithmic group theory functions shared in this repository are especially developed for the implementations in mathematical chemistry. However, the functions can also be used also in different fields.
Contributions:1 release, 230 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
mathimplementationschemistrymathematicsmathematical
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