Caskurlu Bugra

Prof. Bugra Caskurlu is a computer scientist with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Approximation Algorithms. He began working as an Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Turkey) in 2014 and has been affiliated with both the Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Engineering departments. He also served as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department starting from 2022.

Before joining TOBB ETÜ, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at West Virginia University (USA) from 2010 to 2013. His academic journey began with a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University (Turkey), followed by a Master’s and PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA).

His teaching portfolio includes undergraduate and graduate-level courses on programming, algorithms, machine learning, social networks, and formal languages. He also supervises undergraduate and graduate research and actively mentors students, some of whom have gone on to pursue PhDs at institutions like Cornell University and University of Southern California.

Bugra Caskurlu, K. Subramani, Utku Umur Acikalin, Alvaro Velasquez, Piotr Wojciechowski. “Models for Test Cost Minimization in Database Migration.” INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2024. DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2023.0021.

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya, Berkehan Ozen. “Hedonic Expertise Games.” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2024, 92(3): 671–690.

Bugra Caskurlu, Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya. “On Hedonic Games with Common Ranking Property.” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2024, 92(3): 581–590.

Piotr Wojciechowski, K. Subramani, Alvaro Velasquez, Bugra Caskurlu. “Algorithmic Analysis of Priority-Based Bin Packing.” Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2024, 342: 64–75.

Utku Umur Acikalin, Bugra Caskurlu, K. Subramani. “Security-Aware Database Migration.” Constraints, 2023, 28(3): 472–505.

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya. “On Existence of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures.” Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 2022, 32(2): 216–239.

Bugra Caskurlu, Utku Umur Acikalin, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya, Özgün Ekici. “On Approximate Nash Equilibria of the Two-Source Connection Game.” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2022, 30(6): 2206–2220.

Özgün Ekici, Bugra Caskurlu. “Location Choice Under Spillovers.” Business and Economic Research Journal, 2022, 13(1): 1–9.

Bugra Caskurlu, Özgün Ekici, Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya. “On Efficient Computation of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures.” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2020, 28(3): 1686–1698.

Bugra Caskurlu, Matthew D. Williamson, K. Subramani, Vahan Mkrtchyan. “On Approximating Optimal Weight ‘no’-certificates in Weighted Difference Constraint Systems.” Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2018, 36(2): 329–345.

Bugra Caskurlu, Matthew D. Williamson, K. Subramani, Vahan Mkrtchyan. “Partial Vertex Cover and Budgeted Maximum Coverage in Bipartite Graphs.” SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2017, 31(3): 2172–2184.

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Koushik Kar, Hang Zhang. “Capacity Allocation Games for Network-Coded Multicast Streaming.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2014, 22(2): 595–607.

Bugra Caskurlu, Ashish Gehani, Cemal Çağatay Bilgin, K. Subramani. “Analytical Models for Risk-Based Intrusion Response.” Computer Networks, 2013, 57(10): 2181–2192.

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate. “Strategic Multiway Cut and Multicut Games.” Theory of Computing Systems, 2013, 52(2): 200–220.

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu, Ameya Hate. “Partition Equilibrium Always Exists in Resource Selection Games.” Theory of Computing Systems, 2013, 53(1): 73–85.

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu. “Exact and Approximate Equilibria for Optimal Group Network Formation.” Theoretical Computer Science, 2011, 412(39): 5298–5314.

Elliot Anshelevich, Bugra Caskurlu. “Price of Stability in Survivable Network Design.” Theory of Computing Systems, 2011, 49(1): 98–138.

GECCO 2022 (Boston, USA)

SAGT 2021 & 2010 (Denmark, Greece)

COCOON 2021 (Taiwan)

ALGOCLOUD (2018, 2019, 2021) (Finland, Germany, Portugal)

CIAC 2019 (Rome, Italy)

CALDAM (2018, 2021) (India)

ESA 2009 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

GAMENETS 2011 (China)