OUR FORMER EMPLOYEES
BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH LABORATORY

Dr. Mehmet Sabir KIRAZ
Blockchain Coordinator, Lab. manager

Fatih First
Blockchain Coordinator

Oznur Kalkar
Senior Researcher, Cryptology Specialist
Öznur Kalkar completed her undergraduate education in 2012 and her graduate education in 2014 at Koç University Mathematics Department. He continued his studies at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM from 2015 to 2022. He continues his doctoral education in Gebze Technical University, Department of Mathematics. He works on crypto currency design, blockchain technologies, cryptographic protocols, privacy and security problems in the cloud, elliptic curve cryptography, mapping function-based cryptography.

Dr. Jesus Sertkaya
Chief Specialist Researcher BZLAB Director Assist.
He graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Mathematics in 2002. After receiving his master's degree from Middle East Technical University, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Department of Cryptography in 2004, he completed his doctorate in the same department in 2014. He did his PhD thesis on transformations that preserve the complexity criteria of Symmetric encryption systems. Until 2022, he continued his studies at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM National Electronics and Cryptology Research Institute, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences and Blockchain Research Laboratory. Privacy-enhancing technologies, Cloud Computing and the design and analysis of security and privacy-enhancing protocols on Blockchain are his main fields of study.

Active Pinar
Researcher, Blockchain Developer
Aktif Pınar completed her undergraduate education at Yıldız Technical University Computer Engineering Department in 2021. He started to work as a candidate researcher at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM while his undergraduate education was continuing. He has been working on blockchain consensus algorithms and blockchain cryptography as a candidate researcher at BİLGEM Blockchain Laboratory since 2021.

Mert Shamil Gul
Researcher, Blockchain Developer
Mert Şamil Gül, after completing his high school education at Fethiye Science High School, won the Computer Engineering Department of Yıldız Technical University. He started as an intern at Tübitak BİLGEM in 2020 and works as a candidate researcher. His research interests are blockchain consensus algorithms, blockchain cryptography and tracking of cryptocurrencies.