Birkan Tunç, PhD
About Birkan Tunç, PhD
Titles
Computational Scientist
Research Assistant Professor of Computational Science & Engineering in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Awards and Honors
2015, Best PhD Thesis Award (Finalist), Technology Development Foundation of Turkey
2006, PhD student fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
Leadership and Memberships
Memberships in Professional Organizations
International
2020-present, Brain Canada Platform Support Grant
- 2020-present, Grant Reviewer
National
2021-present, National Institute of Mental Health
- 2021-present, Grant Reviewer
Editorial and Academic Positions
Editorial Positions
2021-present, Peer-Reviewer, eLife
2021-present, Peer-Reviewer, Scientific Reports
2021-present, Peer-Reviewer, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
2021-present, Peer-Reviewer, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder
2017-present, Peer-Reviewer, Brain Connectivity
2016-present, Peer-Reviewer, Digital Signal Processin
2015-present, Peer-Reviewer, Medical Image Analysis
2014-present, Peer-Reviewer, NeuroImage
Education & training
Graduate Degree
MSc in Computational Science & Engineering - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
PhD in Computational Science & Engineering - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Fellowship
Postdoctoral Fellow - Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Lectures by Invitation
2021
Tunç B. Computational Analysis of Behavior: Assessing Human Behavior for Mental Health Research, King's College London, London, UK. June 2021.
Tunç B. Computer Vision for Computational Analysis of Social Behavior, Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Philadelphia, USA. May 2021.
Tunç B. Computational Analysis of Human Behavior, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey. Jan 2021.
2020
Tunç B. Coupled Trajectories of Brain Development and Behavior, The IBIS Network (University of Minnesota, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, CHOP), US. Aug 2020.