Bulent Yener is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and the founding Director of Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.
[1] Before joining RPI, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
[2] Yener has worked primarily on: His work in various domains has followed the pattern of problem modeling, data analysis, followed by optimization, with the goal of reaching new insights into traditional subjects by employing combinatorics and machine learning techniques.
For example, Yener has developed the "cell-graphs" approach to model and interpret structure-function relationships which is widely applied in digital pathology area;[4] he also developed cryptographic key pre-distribution system from Combinatorial design and BIBD in particular.
In 2015 he was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[9] for contributions to network design optimization and security.