Active Projects

As Principal Investigator

• UU ADS SIG: "Playing for Cognition: working toward better statistical models predicting cognitive outcome in participation using machine learning" (2024).
• IOM Mongolia: “Mobile Data for Mobility Tracking in Mongolia” (2022).
• UU AI Labs: “Automated indexing of historical television data” (2022-2023).
• UU ADS SIG: "Computer vision-based analysis of visual facial features driving health and beauty perception" (2022).
• UU ADS SIG: "What’s going on? Deep learning based detection of human interactions to distinguish the procedures and processes that matter in psychotherapy." (2022).

As Participant/Researcher

• AINed CHAMP, “Child Health through Artificial intelligence Models and Predictions,” (2023-2026).
• H2020 RIA RAISE, "Recognition and Acknowledgment of Injustice to Strengthen Equality," (2023-2026).
• H2020 RI PPP 101079043, SoBigData Research Infrastructure Preparatory Phase Project, (2022-2025).
• H2020 COST CA19121, Network on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living. (2020-2024).
• H2020 RIA HummingBird: " Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective" (2019-2023).
• Digital Society & COMMIT/ Team Science project, "Co-designing a fair digital asylum procedure," (2022-2023).
• EWUU AI Hub, "PROMISE – PRediction of Outcome with Machine Learning in Infants: a Synergistic Exploration" (2023-).
• EWUU AI Hub, "Deep learning on multimodal inputs with use case: individual feeding behaviour from consumption data", (2022-2026).

As Consultant/Researcher

• TUBITAK 1001, "Positioning of the audience in cinematic virtual reality" (2021-).
• TUBITAK 2505, 121K733, "The Effectiveness of Mentalization based Therapy for Children (Mbt-C) and its Mechanisms of Change" (2022-24).

Completed Projects

As Principal Investigator

• Human-AI Alliance project: "MagicToy: An interactive mobile phone application for rehabilitation of children with motor skill impairments" (2021).
• UU HAI SIG: “Social and Cognitive Modeling” (2021).
• UU ADS SIG: "Feature Selection and Machine Learning as a tool to understand visual search behavior: An application and extension of the Protosc toolkit" (2021).
• UU Invigoration: "How can we better understand the development of social media addiction symptoms: The contribution of data-driven explainable machine learning techniques" (2020).
• UU Invigoration: "Assessing Social Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Boys with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities: The Use of Interactive Virtual Reality" (2020).
• MIT- Boğaziçi University MISTI Seed Grant: “D4R: Data for Refugees” (2018-2019).
• Boğaziçi University BAP 16A01P4: “Smart multimedia and HCI technologies for children” (3.10.2016-3.10.2017).
• TÜBİTAK 3001, 114E481: “Player profiling and communication analysis for player complaints in social network based games” (01.02.2015 – 01.08.2016).
• Boğaziçi University BAP 6474: “Cognitive Science Lab” – infrastructure project(04.05.2012 - 03.05.2013).
• Boğaziçi University BAP 12A01P3: “Multimodal Social Signal Processing” (31.12.2011 - 30.12.2012).

As Participant/Researcher

• FP7 COST IC1106, Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age. (14/03/2012 - 13/03/2016).
• FP7 European STREP FIRESENSE, ENV-2009-1–244088, Fire Management via Multi-sensor Networks (2009-2013).
• NWO VICI: Colour vision (PI: Theo Gevers) (2009-2011).
• NEMO ScienceLive project: Automatic age estimation (2011).
• FP7 COST 2101: Biometrics for identity documents and smart cards. (2006-2010).
• NWO BRICKS/BSIK: Security, identification, authentication (2007-2009).
• FP6 European Network of Excellence BIOSECURE, IST-2002-507634, Biometrics for Secure Authentication, (2004-2007).
• FP6 European Network of Excellence SIMILAR, IST-2002-507609, The European research taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication, (2003-2007).
• The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) project: 3D Object Recognition.
• T.R. Prime Ministry State Planning Organization (DPT) project: Perceptual Human Computer Interaction.

As Consultant/Researcher

• UNESCWA Big Data PoC Project “Leveraging Behavioral and Humanitarian Data Sources to Analyze the Development Challenges Faced by Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon” (2019-2020).
• Boğaziçi Üniversitesi BÜTEK, with ETIYA, Artificial Intelligence Supported Call Desk Message Management (2017).
• Boğaziçi Üniversitesi BÜTEK, with AKSIS, Real time document classification on mobile devices (2016-2017).
• TUBITAK 2501 (jointly with NSF), 115K025, Visualization system for chemical reactions (2016-2017).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, 7150768, with AS Teknoloji, A smart house management system that can model routine user behaviors to generate user-specific energy saving scenarios (2016-2017).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, 3150254, with TURKNET, Behavior Analysis for Improving Internet Services (2015-2017).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, 7141188, with Hisar Teknoloji, Text Analysis and Information Visualization Based Decision Support System for Student Counselling in Schools (2015-2016).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, 7140610, with MAVEN Partners, Near realtime customer behavior analysis (2015-2016).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, 3120779, with PROVUS Bilişim Hizmetleri, User Recognition in ATM Systems to Prevent Forgetting Card and Money (2012-2014).
• TUBITAK TEYDEB, with KuveytTurk, High Security Interactive Banking Technologies (2012-2013).