About me

Dr. Aytuğ Onan is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Engineering, İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Izmir University of Economics in 2010, and his M.Sc. (2013) and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in Computer Engineering from Ege University.

Since September 2025, he has been serving as a Full Professor at IZTECH. His research focuses on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Computational Linguistics. He has published numerous research papers in leading international journals and serves as an Associate Editor or Reviewer for several high-impact journals, including Machine Learning with Applications, Discover Computing, and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.

He has been listed among the “Most Influential Scientists of the World” for six consecutive years (2020–2025) by the Stanford University research team led by Dr. John Ioannidis, and received the Highly Cited Researcher Award 2023 from Clarivate. His work emphasizes advancing machine learning methodologies, contrastive learning techniques, and large language model–based frameworks for data-driven problem-solving across diverse domains.