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Biography

Kurt (Kurtuluş) Kullu received his bachelor's degree from the University of Edinburgh, his master's degree from Ankara University and his doctorate from Bilkent University. 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.

Recent 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.

Education


  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University

  • M.Sc., in Computer Engineering, Ankara University, Turkey

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK

Specialties

  • Virtual crowd simulation
  • 3D Scanning
  • computer graphics
  • artificial intelligence
  • computational neuroscience

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