Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Getting Ph. D. is so easy (for him)

One of the true statements (which are rare!) appearing in Dr. Anilir's CV is "Ph. D. in Engineering" from the University of Tokyo, obtained in 2003.

However, it is found that over half (53% as of writing this) of his Ph.D. thesis is copied from publications or web pages of other people. The investigation is still ongoing at Japanese blog. (Japanese blog is operated by another person.) Sorry, I haven't prepared English page for the investigation of the Ph.D. thesis. But perhaps you can understand to some extent by checking the Japanese blog (Dr. Anilir's thesis is written in English, and you can see the scanned image.)

If you find the "original" of his thesis which has not been pointed out, please kindly let us know (you can use the comment section of this blog, if you prefer.)

We wonder what would be the percentage of his contribution in the end??

Even we forget about "NASA Astronaut Candidate" and all other problems, the Ph. D. thesis alone seems to be a quite serious problem.
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4 comments:

  1. in the official Tokyo University press release, it says 40%
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  2. Where was his Thesis advisor, second reader prior to approving his research material ??? What the jury members were doing when he was defending his dissertation ??? sleeping ? ;) They should take most of the blame because they did not their job right. The guy is a Pretender, how about the other professors who approved his Thesis? F... them all
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  3. I am now suspicious about every PhD thesis from Japan. How do we know Serkan's thesis is the only fake one? What kind of a system do Japanese Universities have?
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  4. Unfortunately, many PhD dissertations (also publications) from Japanese universities are highly questionable, I do not want to say that they are copy and paste type (as Serkan Anilir's), but that their quality as PhD dissertations. Of course we should not single out Japan alone. This happens almost everywhere. But we must accept that this story tells more about the academic system and quality in Japan than about Anilir himself.
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