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T. Metin Sezgin

[Curriculum Vitae]

Principal Investigator
Assist. Prof. Department of Computer Engineering


 

Previous Affiliations and Education

Post. Doc. University of Cambridge
Ph.D Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Sc Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Sc Syracuse University


 
Biography: 

Dr. Sezgin graduated summa cum laude with Honors from Syracuse University in 1999. He received his MS in 2001 and his PhD in 2006, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2006. As of Jan 2009, he has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul.  

Dr. Sezgin leads the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab at Koç, and his main research goal is enabling people to interact with computers in a more natural fashion by combining techniques from machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics and human-computer interaction. 
homepage: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mtsezgin

 

 

R.Sinan Tümen

  

 Ph.D student at the Depatment of Computer Engineering.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Turkish Naval Academy and Ms.E. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. He is interested in machine learning, intelligent user interfaces.

 

Ayşe Küçükyılmaz

 
Fourth year PhD student.
Ayşe Küçükyılmaz received her BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University in 2004. She obtained her MS degree in 2007 from the same department. Between 2005 and 2007, she was a member of the 3DTV EU Project, where she worked on 3D graphical object representations. Following her graduation, she worked as a junior engineer and completed projects on video processing, analysis, and motion tracking for security applications. In 2008, she started to pursue a PhD degree in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Department at Koç University under the supervision of Dr. Cagatay Basdogan and Dr. Metin Sezgin. She has been a member of the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (RML) and the Intelligent User Interfaces Laboratory (IUI) since then. Her current research interests include natural human-computer interaction in virtual domains, haptic user interfaces, affective computing, and machine learning applications in adaptive and immersive multimodal user interfaces.
 

Çağlar Tırkaz

 

 

Ph.D. Student


Çağlar is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Eng. program at Sabanci University. His Ph.D. is supervised by Prof. Berrin Yanikoglu (Sabanci University) and co-supervised by Prof. Metin Sezgin (Koc University). He received his Bs. degree in Computer Science and Eng. program from Sabanci University and his M.Sc. degree in Computer Eng. program from Yildiz Technical University. His research interests are face recognition / verification, gender / age estimation from face images, sketch recognition and human computer interaction. Çağlar joined IUI Lab in 2010.

 

 


 

Çağla Çığ

 

 

Second year Ph.D student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

She received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Game and Media Technology Master Program of Utrecht University. Her research interests include gaze tracking, affective computing, human-robot interaction, intelligent user interfaces, computer graphics and animation.
 
 

Senem Ezgi Emgin

 

 

First year Ph.D student.

She received her B.Sc. degree in Information Systems Engineering from Boğaziçi University, and in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton University in 2009. She received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton University. Her work is co-supervised with Dr. Basdogan. She is currently working on vibrotactile touch screens.

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Burak Özen

         

 

First year M.Sc. Student 

Burak received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science Department from Bilkent University. He has been working at IUI Lab since July, 2011. He is interested in Human Computer Interaction and his current research topic is about 'Personalized Learning in Sketch Recognition'.


 

Atakan Arasan

 

M.Sc. Student


Atakan received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Koc University. He is building a vibro-tactile stylus for use in pen-based interfaces. His work is co-supervised by Dr. Basdogan of the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory.

 

Banuçiçek Gürcüoğlu

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M.Sc. student.

Banuçiçek received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Istanbul Bilgi University. She is interested in analysis of sketches and integrating sketch-based user interfaces with educational software.
 
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Özem Kalay

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M.Sc. student.

Özem received her B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. She is interested in signal processing and machine learning.
 
 

Erelcan Yanık

M.Sc. student.

Erelcan received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Koç University. He is working on vision and pattern recognition. He is interested in computer graphics and creating intelligent user interfaces.
 
 

Mustafa Tulu

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Summer Researcher

Mustafa TÜLÜ is a forth year Engineering Physics student at University of Gaziantep. His major interest is Robotics. He develops both hardware and software applications. Programming microchips, developing user interface applications, solid engineering design are in his favorites. He is also a registered Apple Developer, he loves developing applications for IOS. His mission is combining science and engineering, being a part of innovative work.

 

        
 

Kemal Tuğrul Yeşilbek

Summer Researcher

Kemal Tugrul Yesilbek is a senior software engineering student at Izmir University of Economics. He is interested in improving the interaction experience in video games. He is working on increasing the recognition rate in sketches via collecting data in a realistic environment.
 

 

 

Anıl Uluturk

Summer Researcher

Undergraduate Researcher
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Zeynep Mavuş

Summer Researcher

Zeynep is a senior student at the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University.  Her research interests include sketch recognition, intelligent user interfaces, machine learning. She joined IUI Lab in July,2012.


 

Alumni

 

Orhan Can Ceylan

   

Summer Research Student.

Orhan Can is a junior at Koc University. He majors in Computer Engineering and Business Administration. Orhan Can is working on multi-touch applications in Windows 7. He is interested in intelligent user interfaces and Windows Touch.

web: http://www.orhancanceylan.com/category/windowstouch




 

Emrah Şamdan

  

Summer Research Student
Emrah is a senior student at the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University. He is interested in computer graphics and sign recognition. He minors in Operational Research in Industrial Engineering at METU. Emrah joined IUI LAB in Summer 2010, and he is working on primitive extraction for free-hand strokes.

 

İsmail Ulutürk

 Summer Research Student

İsmail is a Visiting Summer Researcher. He is a third year undergraduate student at the Electronics Engineering Department of İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi. İsmail is working on recognition of freehand circuit diagrams. He is interested in machine learning, human-machine interfaces and embedded system design.

 

S. Özgür Öğüz

  

Degree earned: MS, Aug 2010

Özgür holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Koc University. He is interested in 3D graphics, physics-based simulation, human-computer interaction,  as well as machine learning, and their applications in HCI. His thesis focused on multimodal collaboration models in virtual environments with haptic, visual, and auditory feedbacks. Özgür joined the IUI Lab in 2008. He was also a member of the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (RML), and was co-supervised by Prof. Basdogan.

Current position: graduate student at UBC, Canada.

web: http://ozguroguz.com/

 

H. Gökhan Himmetoglu

 

He got his M.Sc. degree from UBC in 2011. Currently, he is working at Amazon. 

blog: gokhanhimmetoglu.blogspot.com

website: www.cs.ubc.ca/~ghimmeto 

 

Mustafa Emre Acer

  Research Engineer

Current position: MS student at CMU

Mr. Acer graduated from Middle East Technical University, with a B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2008. He worked on sound processing and broadcast tracking projects at the TUBITAK UZAY Institute during his junior and senior years. He joined the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab to work on sketch recognition, intelligent user interfaces and machine learning.

blog: http://meacer.blogspot.com

 

Ayça Küçük

 ayca

Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

Kristin Aslaner

  

Undergraduate Researcher