Hande Küçük McGinty

Hande is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Miami. She has a long history of working with interdisciplinary teams. Her most recent research focuses on food and agriculture informatics and ontologies as well as bioinformatics and bio-ontologies and their applications for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

She previously worked on designing and implementing ontologies such as an ontology backend for USDA's Food Data Central, BioAssay Ontology (BAO), and Drug Target Ontology (DTO) as well as generating methods for bridging multiple domains and analysis of data using AI. Her research also involves creating methodologies that allow us better acquire, represent, and reuse knowledge out of publicly available data.

Between July, 2010 and July, 2011 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a Researcher. Her research at the Max Planck Institute focused on effective clustering algorithms for biological networks.

She received her Masters from E. Michigan University in 2010 under Dr. Benjamin J. Keller's supervision.

She graduated from Bilkent University in Türkiye with a BS degree in Computer Engineering in 2007. At Bilkent, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant for the PATIKA (Pathway Analysis Tools for Integration and Knowledge Acquisition) project under the supervision of Dr. Uğur Doğrusöz.

Her research interests include analysis and representation big data, artificial intelligence, biological networks in bioinformatics tools, clustering algorithms, and bioinformatics algorithms.