Barkın İlhan

Associate Professor
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Konya University Meram Medical Faculty
Biophysics Department
42080 Konya/TURKEY


barkin[at}unrlabs.org
github github

Hi! I currently work as associate professor of Biophysics at Konya University Meram Medical Faculty.

Our team's primary research interests are:

- Computational Cognitive Neurobiophysics (CCNP):(Hard)real-time sensory stimulus design/synthesis/electrophysiological recording/analyses over HPC systems, brain oscillations, attentional/perceptual states, BCI (Brain-Computer Interface), BBI (Brain-Brain Interface), Head conductivity modeling, Forward/inverse problems of the brain, Binocular eye movements (EOG)

- Open-source software development for all the things mentioned above.



Personal Info

Date/Place of Birth: 1977, İzmir, Turkey

Languages: Turkish (native), English, French (niveau B2), Italian (intermediate).


Education

Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience
(2010 → 2012),
in Prof. Rufin VanRullen's Lab,
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse/France

PhD in Biophysics (2009), Thesis: "Electrical Source Imaging: Improvements in EEG Applications"
Hacettepe University
Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Süha Yağcıoğlu, Prof. Pekcan Ungan

MSc in Biophysics (2003), Thesis: "Adduction and Abduction Angular Velocities in Horizontal Saccades, Effects of Initiation and Finalization Timings over Binocular Coordination"
Selçuk University
Advisor: Prof. İlhami Demirel

BSc in Physics (2000), Finishing project: "Purity analysis of the gas mixture used in CO2 laser on a Linux Computer"
Middle East Technical University

Employment

Mar 2016 → Present PI - Associate Professor @ Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
Biophysics Department
Konya University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya/Turkey

Apr 2013 → Mar 2016 Assistant Professor @ Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
Biophysics Department
Konya University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya/Turkey

Sep 2010 → Sep 2012 Post-doctoral Researcher @ Rufin VanRullen's Lab.
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS UMR5549, Faculté de Médecine Rangueil, Toulouse/France

Sep 2009 → Sep 2011 Research Fellow @ Brain Research Lab.
Biophysics Department
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara/Turkey

Jul 2006 → Sep 2009 Research Assistant @ Brain Research Lab.
Biophysics Department
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara/Turkey

Dec 2000 → Aug 2003 Research Assistant @ Biophysics Department
Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine, Konya/Turkey


Selected Publications

- Gulbinaite, R., İlhan, B., VanRullen, R. The Triple-Flash Illusion Reveals a Driving Role of Alpha-Band Reverberations in Visual Perception. J Neurosci, 2017, 67(3):293-307.
- VanRullen, R., Zoefel, B., İlhan, B. On the cyclic nature of perception in vision versus audition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci., 2014, 369(1641):20130214.
- İlhan, B., VanRullen, R. No Counterpart of Visual Perceptual Echoes in the Auditory System. PLoS One, 2012, 7(11):e49287.
- Tezer, F. I., İlhan, B., Erbil, N., Saygı, S., Akalan, N., and Ungan, P. Lateralization of sound in temporal lobe epilepsy: comparison between pre- and post-operative performances and ERPs. Clin Neurophysiol, 2012, 123(12):2362-9.
- Dalkılıç, N., Yürüten, B., and İlhan, B. Somatosensory Conduction Velocity Distribution of Median Nerve Middle Palmar Digital Component. Intern. J. Neuroscience, 2004, 114, 153-165.


Selected Congress Presentations

- İlhan, B., VanRullen, R. (2011). Perceptual echoes in vision and audition: A Comparison. 34th European Conference on Visual Perception, Aug 28th - Sep 1st, Toulouse, France.
- Çetin-İlhan, B., İlhan, B., Uluğ, B. (2011). Assessment of short-term anti-psychotic treatment effects in schizophrenia via oculomotor measures. 34th European Conference on Visual Perception, Aug 28th - Sep 1st, Toulouse, France.
- İlhan, B., Yağcıoğlu, S., and Ungan, P. (2008). A Computer-based System for Subject Performance Evaluation of Lateral Hearing over IID and ITD mechanisms. 20th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- Erbil, N., İlhan, B., and Ungan, P. (2008). Computer-based System Constructed for Collective Interpretation of the motion pattern consisting the Active and Passive Finger Movements and the Associated EEG and EMG Activities. (2008). 20th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B., İlhan, B. C., Yağcıoğlu, S., Uluğ, B. and Ungan, P. (2008). A Linux/RTAI-based Saccadic/Pursuit/Reading Stimulator System taking the Parametric Binocular Model of Electrooculography into Account. 20th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B., Yağcıoğlu, S., and Ungan, P. (2008). "Octopus": EEG/ERP Bioelectromagnetic Source Imaging Network - Online Applications. 13th National Meeting of Biomedical Engineering (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B., Yağcıoğlu, S., and Ungan, P. (2008). "Octopus": EEG/ERP Bioelectromagnetic Source Imaging Network #2 - Offline Applications. 7th National Neuroscience Congress, 2008 (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B., Yağcıoğlu, S., and Ungan, P. (2008). "Octopus": EEG/ERP Bioelectromagnetic Source Imaging Network #1 - Online Applications. 7th National Neuroscience Congress (in Turkish, awarded 1st as Poster presentation)
- İlhan, B., Yağcıoğlu, S., and Ungan, P. (2006). ArrAVS: A Real-time Software/Hardware Solution to the Problem of Simultaneity during the Presentation of Audio-visual Stimuli. 18th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B. and Demirel, İ. (2003). The Effect of Angular Velocities and Initiation/Finalization Timings of Adduction and Abduction in Horizontal Saccades over Binocular Coordination. 15th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- İlhan, B. and Dalkılıç, N. (2003). A Real-time Linux Application Developed for Binocular Electrooculography Recordings: QEog. 15th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- Dalkılıç, N., İlhan, B., and Pehlivan, F. (2001). Comparison of Fiber Distributions computed via Compound Action Potentials recorded by "double stimuli" using Extracellular and Suction Methods. 13th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- Dalkılıç, N., İlhan, B., and Bayramoğlu, F. (2001). Are the two eyes beginning motion at the same time in lateral gazes? 13th National Biophysics Congress (in Turkish).
- İlhan, S., Genç, E., Atçı, A., and İlhan, B. (2001). Eye Movements in Perception of Ambiguous Pictures. Poster presented at "Today and future of Neuroscience in Turkey" Symposium (in Turkish).
- İlhan, S., Genç, E., Atçı, A., İlhan, B. (2001). Oculomotor Scanning Patterns during Perception of an Ambiguous Picture: “My Wife and My Mother-in-Law”. 11th European Conference on Eye Movements, Turku, Finland.


Workshops and Certificates

- High Performance Computation and Parallel Programming Summer School. National High Performance Computation Center, Sep 1st-12th 2008, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.


Reviewing

- Journal of Neuroscience Methods


Patents

- "A System for Measuring Acceleration", Utility model ID=2010-G-251711


Computer & Electronics Literacy

(Given in **boldface** are the titles I am skillful at and/or I have enthusiasm for..)

- Linux kernel hacking, open-source software development, most UN*X-like technologies,

- Coding/programming (since 1985):
  * Low-level: Motorola 680x0 and Intel 80x86 Assembly Languages,
  * Mid-level: C, C++, Java,
  * GUI: Qt, OpenGL,
  * Real-time computation: RTAI
  * Mathematical modeling/parallel computation: MPI, OpenMP, PETSc,
  * Database: SQL (Postgres),
  * High-level: Python, MATLAB-like (Octave, SciLab, ...) scripting environments,
  * Functional: Erlang (beginner/newbie)

- OS preference: Debian/GNU Linux (proudly since 1997) and Mac OS X,

- Research related software/programming environments: PsychToolbox, EEGLAB, ...

- Analog design, MCU-based/embedded digital circuit design (PCAD, KiCAD).


Hobbies

- Musical composition, electric guitar,
- Capoeira (Axe Capoeira Turkey),
- Wing Tsun (EBMAS Turkey)