Faculty Member, PhD

Emel Küpçü

+90212 311 E3- 202B

Santralistanbul

Education

  • Ph.D., KOÇ UNIVERSITY, İstanbul, Turkey - Computer Science and Engineering 
  • MSc, BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI - Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • B.S., ANKARA UNIVERSITY, Ankara, Turkey - Mathematics


Courses

  • Object Oriented Programming 
  • Large Scale Programming
  • Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies

Areas of Interest

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems
  • Extended Reality: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • And New Technologies...

Rewards and Achievements

Awards and Supports:

  • Horizon2020 / U2020 - Above-threshold award, UİDB, 2025
  • TÜBİTAK 1507 SME R&D Start-up Support Program – Project Researcher
  • TÜBİTAK 1507 SME R&D Start-up Support Program – Project Coordinator
  • HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, Women TechEU - Above-threshold award, UİDB, 2023
  • TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG, Individual Young Entrepreneur Program Award– Project Coordinator
  • TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG, Individual Young Entrepreneur Program Award– Project Researcher
  • Koç University PhD Scholarship
  • Master’s Degree Abroad Scholarship from the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) and the Ministry of National Education Association of Mathematicians Scholarship in Türkiye
  • Republic of Türkiye Prime Ministry Fellowship      


Certificates:

  • Jean Monnet Chair DIGITEUL, "Law and Digitalization" Certificate Program
  • KARMA Lab Virtual and Augmented Reality Training Program Certificate
  • KOSGEB Applied Entrepreneurship Program Certificate

Other Information

Experiences:

  • Chairman of the Board, Xtinge Technology Inc., Istanbul, Turkey
  • Observer and Reviewer for : TÜBİTAK TEYDEB  Projects, BAP Projects, and Conference papers
  • Vice Chairman of the Board, FineSci Technology Inc., Istanbul, Turkey
  • Software Contributor, KOÇ UNIVERSITY KARMA LAB, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Research Assistant, KOÇ UNIVERSITY, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Research Assistant, MARMARA UNIVERSITY, Istanbul, Türkiye


Publications :

  • Demir, İ., Küpçü, E. and Küpçü, A., 2024, May. Extractive Summarization Data Sets Generated with Measurable Analyses. In 2024 32nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  • Küpçü, Emel, Yemez, Yücel, 2019. “Diffusion-based isometric depth correspondence”. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 189, p.102808.
  • Küpçü, Emel, 2018. “Isometric correspondence estimation and symmetry detection on point clouds acquired by depth cameras.” Doktora Tezi, Koç Üniversitesi.
  • Küpçü, Emel, Yemez, Yücel, 2017. “Reliable isometric point correspondence from depth”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops (pp. 1266-1273).
  • Küpçü, Emel, Yemez, Yücel, 2017. Reliable Isometric Dense Point Correspondence from Depth, accepted as Poster, ACM WomEncourage 2017, Barcelona, Spain.