A graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Professor Ömer Egecioglu began teaching at UCBS's Computer Science Department in 1985. On his departmental web page, he quotes the Turkish revolutionary statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who once said, "I am not leaving a spiritual legacy of dogmas, unchangeable petrified directives. My spiritual legacy is science and reason." A professional scientist with deep cultural roots, Professor Egecioglu seems grounded in science and Turkish culture, and he provides links to numerous cultural and music publications on his page. His professional research interests include algorithms (social choice, Euclidian similarity, density estimation) and combinatorics (Hankel determinants, computational geometry, isoperimetric problems), and he has an extensive list of published articles in numerous scholarly journals - from the Fibonacci Quarterly to the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. So if you're picking off the petals of a daisy and wondering whether (or not) to major in computer science, remember that some of the greatest minds in the field began by studying the patterns of numbers in nature (Fibonacci) and then applying them to technology (Egecioglu).
A graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Professor Ömer Egecioglu began teaching at UCBS's Computer Science Department in 1985. On his departmental web page, he quotes the Turkish revolutionary statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who once said, "I am not leaving a spiritual legacy of dogmas, unchangeable petrified directives. My spiritual legacy is science and reason." A professional scientist with deep cultural roots, Professor Egecioglu seems grounded in science and Turkish culture, and he provides links to numerous cultural and music publications on his page. His professional research interests include algorithms (social choice, Euclidian similarity, density estimation) and combinatorics (Hankel determinants, computational geometry, isoperimetric problems), and he has an extensive list of published articles in numerous scholarly journals - from the Fibonacci Quarterly to the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. So if you're picking off the petals of a daisy and wondering whether (or not) to major in computer science, remember that some of the greatest minds in the field began by studying the patterns of numbers in nature (Fibonacci) and then applying them to technology (Egecioglu).