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  • I will be giving a keynote on "Designing Computational Tools for Behavioral and Clinical Science" at the Measuring Behavior Conference, 15-17 May 2024. Our recently established AI and Animal Welfare Lab is also organizing a symposium, where I will present pain detection in equines and dogs via computer vision approaches.
  • The Asia–Pacific Migration Data Report 2022 of IOM is now (freely) available. I contributed a small piece on the usage of mobile phone data.
  • Yapay zekâ politik görüşümüzü yüzümüzden anlayabilir mi? Sarkaç platformuna yazdım.
  • The 31st IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference was held between 5-8 July, at Istanbul Technical University. One of our keynotes was Alex Pentland, who published "Building the New Economy: Data as Capital" with Alexander Lipton and Thomas Hardjono in 2021.
  • 9th Int. Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science was held in May, at Ozyegin University. If you are interested in getting involved in the organization of ISBCS, please send me an email.
  • Yeni yılın ilk yazısı, Hesaplamalı Bilimler Nedir? Sarkaç platformunda yayınlandı.
  • We are establishing the Dutch chapter of the IEEE Biometrics Council. If you are interested in biometrics, forensics, identity science, and human behavior analysis, send me an e-mail to be included in the correspondence. IEEE membership is a plus, but not required.
  • The video of my talk at II. Bilkent Computational Social Science Summit on data collaboratives and big data for social good is available on YouTube.
  • A book launch was organized on the 23rd of November at Oxford University for our recently published Data Science for Migration and Mobility book.
  • I gave a tutorial at ACII'22 on computational analysis for behavioral and clinical sciences.
  • We organized an Expert Workshop in the HumMingBird project about 'Making the most of mobile phone data to map migration'. Invited speakers were Joshua Blumenstock (Berkeley School of Information, University of California), Stefano Iacus (Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University), and Xavier Vollenweider (Flowminder). There was also a hands-on OPAL Tutorial to share mobile CDR insights in a privacy-aware and secure way. The workshop was hybrid, and took place between 17-18 November at the Bogazici University campus in Istanbul. Presentation slides can be accessed from its website.
  • On June 23, Utrecht University's Department of Media and Culture organized a book launch for four books on the theme of migration and borders in a digital and datafied world, including "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, New York University Press), "Globalization in Everyday Life: Unruly Speech : Displacement and the Politics of Transgression" (by Saskia Witteborn, Stanford University Press), "Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control" (by Huub Dijstelbloem, MIT Press), and our "Data Science for Migration and Mobility". This event, chaired by Dr. Koen Leurs, was supported by the "Co-designing a fair digital asylum procedure" research project. Details here.
  • We have published a second whitepaper in the GoodBrother COST project, entitled "State of the art of audio- and video-based solutions for AAL," freely available for downloading.
  • Thank you for the interest you have shown for the short course on the computational analysis for behavioral and clinical sciences. Together with Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, and Henning Müller, we have organized the 12th edition of the Human Behavior Understanding workshop in this area, as a satellite to ICPR 2022. Invited speakers were Rich Caruana, Juan Wachs, and Ehsan Hoque.
  • We have published a whitepaper in the GoodBrother COST project, entitled "State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions," freely available for downloading.
  • We have organized the Workshop on Ethics and Privacy of Big Data Use for Migration Research, 7-8 October, fully virtual. This was a joint event of the HumMingBird consortium Enhanced Migration Measures from a Multidimensional Perspective, H2020 project - GA 870661), the SoBigData++ consortium (European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics, H2020 Project - GA 871042) and the IMISCOE Meth@Mig (Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research) standing committee.
  • I have joined Technical Committee 12 (Multimedia and Visual Information Systems) of IAPR as an information officer. Please don't hesitate to send me an email if there is something the TC12 can do for you, or vice versa.
  • IMISCOE's Standing Committee on Methods in Migration Research (Meth@Mig) publishes a series of video interviews on "Digitization of Migration Research Methods: Promises and Pitfalls". You can watch the first one with Marzia Rango here, and in the second one, I discuss mobile phone data for migration and mobility.
  • I gave my inaugural speech (Oratie) on the 7th of February 2020, in Utrecht, on Finding the Human in the Artificial.
  • Together with Nuria Oliver, we gave a tutorial entitled 'Human Behavior Modeling with Machine Learning: Opportunities and Challenges' at 2019 NeurIPS Conference. You can watch it (with slides) on SlidesLive.
  • Türkiye'de veya yurtdışında hesaplamalı sosyal bilimler, insan hareketliliği, sosyal ağ analizi, sosyal sorunlar için yapay zeka konularında çalışan araştırmacıları biraraya getirmek için yeni bir liste kurduk: soc-comp-tr@googlegroups.com. Bu konularda çalışan herkesi katılmaya ve listeyi duyurmaya davet ediyoruz.
  • The closing workshop of the Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge was held on 21 January 2019, at Bogazici University, Albert Long Hall. All project reports are available online. (If the link doesn't work, please try this one.)
  • The Turkish computer vision and pattern recognition community started an e-mail communication list, and the number of its members reached two hundred and fifty. The communication language is mainly Turkish. Look for "cvpr-news-tr@googlegroups.com". Please join in and spread the word.
  • You can download the slides for the Workshop on Teaching Style and Content for the training of teaching assistants. These are partly based (with much compression and simplification) on the material from the BKO certification program (webpage in Dutch), offered by the University of Amsterdam.
  • If you are interested in hearing about cognitive science related events in Turkey, please subscribe to our mailing list (moderated) cogsci-news-tr@googlegroups.com.
  • The UvA-NEMO Smile database went public! See the website for details on how to obtain it, and check here the coverage in the media. Learn more about our experiment on the effect of dynamic information for facial age and expression estimation here (in Dutch) and here (in English). The public report (in Dutch) can be downloaded here.