Murat Perit Cakir
Murat Perit Cakir is an assistant professor in the Cognitive Science program at the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He has been a member of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) lab since 2010, focusing on the design and development of performance indicators for ranking and benchmarking purposes. In addition to university rankings and bibliometrics, his main research areas involve human–computer interaction, computer-supported collaborative learning and cognitive neuroscience of learning. Dr. Cakir received his PhD from the College of Information Science & Technology at Drexel University, and holds an MS/MCIT in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University.