BZLAB
Our Team
Dr. Taner Dursun
Laboratory Manager, Blockchain Solution Architect
He received his BSc degree from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Control and Computer Engineering in 1994. After receiving his master's degree from the same department, he conducted his doctoral studies on Policy-Based Management of Decentralized and High Performance Computing Systems. Since 1998, he has worked as a developer, analyst, system engineer and project manager in various national R&D projects in Information Security, Cryptology, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing Systems, Security Management Systems, Software Engineering at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (Informatics and Information Security Advanced Technologies Research Center). Currently, he is the Senior Principal Researcher and the manager of TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Blockchain Research Laboratory, where he has been working since 2018. His current research interests include blockchain technology, blockchain governance, digital currencies, blockchain architectures, blockchain security, decentralized identity management systems and digital asset storage.
Dr. Mustafa Takaoglu
Assistant Laboratory Management, Blockchain Expert
He received his Bachelor's degree from Istanbul Aydın University, Department of Computer Engineering in 2014. He received his master's degree from Istanbul Aydın University, Department of Computer Engineering in 2016 with the thesis title "Comparative Investigation of Clustering Algorithms on WEKA and MATLAB with Several Datasets". He received his PhD degree from Istanbul Aydın University, Department of Computer Engineering in 2022 under the thesis title of "High Security Information Exchange Algorithm Based on Blockchain Technology, Using Encryption and Steganography Techniques". Between 2019-2022, he worked as an academician at Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering. Between 2020-2022, he worked as the director of IAU Blockchain Application and Research Center and held numerous international conferences and webinars. His research interests include data science, data security and blockchain technology. As of 2022, he has been working as a Blockchain Expert at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Blockchain Research Laboratory.
