YAMAN ARKUN

Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering


Phone: +212-338 1313
Fax: +212-338 1548

 
yarkun@ku.edu.tr

     B.S.     1974    Bogazici University, Turkey
M.S.    1976    University of Minnesota
Ph.D.   1979    University of Minnesota


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Dr. Arkun's research interests are in process dynamics, modeling and control of chemical and biological systems. Research topics include dynamic modeling, model predictive control, large scale complex and hierarchical systems, optimization. Current application areas are copolymerization reactors, refinery operations, protein folding and systems biology.

Dr. Arkun has held visiting positions at Tennessee Eastman, DuPont and Weyerhauser companies. He has served as the North American editor of Journal of Process Control and Associate Editor of Automatica. He has been a trustee and secretary of Computer Aids in Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation, and a director of Computers and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE. He is the 1986 recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award given by the American Automatic Control Council

Dr. Arkun received TÜBİTAK (The Sientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Award in 2004. He was elected to TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) in 2006.

Dr. Arkun is a member of the Scientific Board of TÜBİTAK.  

 
The AKT-MAPK Signaling Pathway Publications and  the Models to Simulate Using XPPAuto:


AKT MODEL:

Arkun, Y. 2019b. “Modeling and Analysis of the Cross-talk regulators between the AKT and ERK Signaling Pathways”, IFAC -Papers online. Vol 52, 1, 520:525. [Paper] [Model]

MAPK MODEL:

Arkun, Y., Yasemi, M. 2018. “Dynamics and control of the ERK signaling pathway: Sensitivity, bistability, and oscillations”, PLoS ONE, 13(4): e0195513. [Paper] [Model]