Kurt Kullu
Lecturer
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 246E
- Email: kurtulus.kullu@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-3957
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BIOGRAPHY
Kurt (Kurtuluş) received his BSc from the University of Edinburgh – UK, MSc from Ankara University – Turkiye, and PhD from Bilkent University – Turkiye. He joined UCF and the Department of Computer Science as a lecturer at the beginning of 2024. Before UCF, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University, and earlier a lecturer at Ankara University.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering – Bilkent University, Turkey
- M.Sc in Computer Engineering – Ankara University, Turkey
- B.Sc in Computer Science – The University of Edinburgh, UK
RESEARCH
- Virtual crowd simulation
- 3D Scanning
- Computer graphics
- Artificial intelligence
- Computational neuroscience
PUBLICATIONS
- Kullu, K. & Güdükbay, U. (2014, May 26-28). A layered communication model for agents in virtual crowds [Short paper presentation]. In Proc. of the 27th Int. Conf. on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA’14), Houston, USA.
- Kullu, K., Güdükbay, U. & Manocha, D. (2017). ACMICS: an agent communication model for interacting crowd simulation. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 31(6), 1403‒
- (Also presented as) Kullu, K., Güdükbay, U. & Manocha, D. (2018, July 10-15). ACMICS: an agent communication model for interacting crowd simulation. In Proc. of the 17th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’18), Journal Track, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Cangır, H., Uzun, K, Can, T., Kullu, K., Oğuz, E. & Kaya, Ö.F. (2023). Learner corpus research and natural language processing. In Özer, Ö. & Yükselir, C. (Ed.s), Teaching in online and blended learning environments: Emerging trends in English language teaching. Nobel Academic Publishing.
- Yıldırım, H.B., Kullu, K. & Emrah Amrahov, Ş. (2024). A graph model and a three-stage algorithm to aid the physically disabled with navigation. Universal Access in the Information Society, 23, 901‒
- Greenin-Whitehead, K., Rozenfeld, E., Moreno-Sanchez, A., Tan, M.W., Kullu, K., Ausborn, J., Parnas, M., Lin, A.C. (2025) Ectopic sodium channel expression decreases excitability of Drosophila Kenyon cells. The Journal of Physiology.
- COT5405 – Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- COT3100 – Introduction to Discrete Structures
- COP3502 – Computer Science I
- Other courses taught before UCF: Computer Graphics, Automata Theory, Digital Image Processing, and many others.