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Ipek Oruc

Associate Professor
Academic Appointment
Associate Professor
Research Focus
Eyes and Vision
Degrees / Designations

B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD

Contact Info
www.visualcognition.ca/ipek/
ipor@mail.ubc.ca
604-875-4111 ext.69398
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ipek-oruc-a2832072

Biography

Dr. Ipek Oruc is the director of the NOVA Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research program is focused on the development and application of data science techniques in the analysis of retinal imaging, neuroimaging and behavioral data, with the goal of advancing vision science and its applications in medicine. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Bogazici University in 1993 and 1997, respectively, and her PhD in cognition and perception from New York University in 2003. After holding postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and UBC, she joined the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at UBC in 2011. 

Dr. Oruc’s interdisciplinary research program has been consistently funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery and Accelerator Programs since 2011. She serves on the editorial board of Vision Research and is affiliated with several institutes at UBC, including the School of Biomedical Engineering, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, the Data Science Institute and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

Research Studies

Diagnostic Imaging, Blood, Heart and Circulation, Eyes and Vision

Automated detection of autonomic dysreflexia via deep learning

News and Awards

Novel AI model explains retinal sex difference

Mar 20, 2024

Publications

  • PNAS nexus -

    Artificial intelligence, explainability, and the scientific method: A proof-of-concept study on novel retinal biomarker discovery.

    Delavari P, Ozturan G, Yuan L, Yilmaz Ö, Oruc I
  • PloS one -

    Learning from small data: Classifying sex from retinal images via deep learning.

    Berk A, Ozturan G, Delavari P, Maberley D, Yılmaz Ö, Oruc I
  • Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research -

    Are people with autism prosopagnosic?

    Kamensek T, Susilo T, Iarocci G, Oruc I
  • Cognitive neuropsychology -

    Bootstrap analysis of the single subject with event related potentials.

    Oruç I, Krigolson O, Dalrymple K, Nagamatsu LS, Handy TC, Barton JJ
  • Neuropsychologia -

    The anatomic basis of the right face-selective N170 IN acquired prosopagnosia: a combined ERP/fMRI study.

    Dalrymple KA, Oruç I, Duchaine B, Pancaroglu R, Fox CJ, Iaria G, Handy TC, Barton JJ
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