Analysis: Worth noting that author graduated in 1985, joined a Turkish University in 1987 as faculty, and published the notable paper in 2008. As such, little bit of a stretch to say he invented novel solution to something, but was forced to leave.

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— Notable Paper (2008):

https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3917

— Three YouTubes by author explaining paper:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBFUV-ZetY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ODCOzvPIAUw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn-iQ259J0

— Slides of YouTubes:

https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/erdal-arikan-2015-01-14

— Author’s Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdal_Arıkan