Prof. Attila Gursoy is a professor in the Computer Engineering Department, 

Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received the BS degree from Middle East Technical 

University, Ankara, Turkey, the MS degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, both 

in Computer Engineering in 1986 and 1988. He received the PhD degree from 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Computer Science in 1994. 

He was a TUBITAK scholar during his PhD studies.  He worked in Theoretical Biophysics Group 

in Beckman Institute, University of Illinois as a postdoctoral research associate where 

Dr. Gursoy contributed significantly to the development of a parallel molecular dynamics 

simulation program NAMD. Dr. Gursoy worked in Bilkent University as an assistant professor, 

and since 2002, Dr. Gursoy is with Computer Engineering Department of Koc University. 

Dr. Gursoy research is in the area of parallel/distributed computing, high performance 

computational biology, and protein bioinformatics. Dr. Gursoy has published articles in 

prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 

Journal of Computational Biology, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Supercomputing, 

Nucleic Acids Research, Protein: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, and PLOS Computational Biology.