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Academic Work Experience

Acting Professor (W2) (04/‘24 - 03/‘25). The Center for Information and Language Processing, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, LMU Munich.

Lecturer (10/‘23 - 03/‘24) The Center for Information and Language Processing, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, LMU Munich.

Junior Research Group Leader. (Dec'22 - Now, on temporarl leave), Longitudinal analysis of change and variety in natural language data ( at SAIL (SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems), Computational Linguistics, Linguistics,  University of Bielefeld).

Post-Doc. (Oct'21 - Nov'22), Computational Linguistics, Linguistics,  University of Bielefeld.

Post-Doc. (Jan'20 - Sep'21), Language Technology Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg.

Post-Doc. (Jul'16 - Dec'19), Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg.

Research Associate (Dec'05 - Aug'12) Human Computer Interaction Research and Application Laboratory, Computer Center, Middle East Technical University.

Academic Degrees

Ph.D.  (2015), Departments of Informatics , University of Hamburg , Germany

Knowledge and Language Processing Working Group CINACS (Cross-Modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems) International Research Group. 

M.Sc.  2010,  Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

B.Sc.  2005,  Computer Education & Instructional Technology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Research Interests

Multimodal Learning, (Multimodal) Hate Speech, Situated Language Understanding, Meaning Recovery, Gaze-integrated NLP, Multimodal Communication, Eye Tracking Methodology, Human-Computer Interaction, Meaning Extraction/Intent Recognition, Embodied Cognition

Hobbies

Scuba Diving, Underwater Photography, Underwater Ecology, Traveling