Joint Computer Science/IDSAI Seminar with Professor Gülşen Eryiğit

Speaker Biography:

Gülşen Eryiğit is the chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University, the coordinator of ITU Natural Language Processing Group, and the director of ITU TÖMER (Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center). She is the top-cited researcher in Turkey in NLP and listed in Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist Rankings career-long impact category. She received her master's and PhD degrees from ITU Computer Engineering Department in 2002 and 2007. She has worked as a referee and author in many prestigious journals and conferences on NLP. She is a senior action editor at ACL RR In recent years, she has worked as a coordinator or researcher in many scientific projects funded by EU, Tubitak, and the Ministry of Industry and Technology, and as a consultant in several industrial R&D projects funded by EU and Tubitak TEYDEB. She also acts as a project evaluator and observer for these funding agencies. She owns two issued patents. She is the person who realized the first software export from the ITU Technology transfer office. She is actively a management committee member in the European Cost Action UNIDIVE where she co-chairs the work package on "Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Language Technology". She prioritizes the development of local technologies and has been actively involved in R&D projects on language technologies with various institutional firms in Turkey through university-industry collaboration.

We look forward to your participation in what promises to be an insightful and inspiring seminar.