News:
- We are looking for a Postdoc to join our team in Hybrid Intelligence Project (28/4/2024). The call is here.
- We finished teaching the first iteration of the Global Justice Investigations Lab (17/4/2024). Some student impressions and pictures from LinkedIn are here and here.
- We are running a Hybrid Intelligence Competition at AAMAS and at HHAI 2024. (1/3/2024).
- Davide Dell'Anna started as an assistant professor and Anastasia Akkuzu as a PhD student the Responsible AI group (1/2/2024).
- Onuralp Ulusoy defended his PhD, titled "Privacy in Collaborative Systems" (7/12/2022). Short UU news item is here. Photos coming soon!
- I gave a talk on "Situation-Based Privacy Decisions" in Unversity of Groningen (19/10/2022).
- I gave the introduction talk about our AI Masters's program during the Open Days (12/10/2022). The next one is on 10/02/2023.
- I am giving a lecture on AI for Privacy as part of the Responsible AI course at SIKS. (6/2022)
- We are holding the second workshop on "HI/ESDiT collaboration on AI, human values and the law" in HHAI Conference. (5/2022)
- We received Utrecht Education Incentive Fund for our project on UU Open Source Investigations Lab. The project will run for three years. (5/2022)
- We will present our work (w/ Nadin Kokciyan) on making privacy decisions based on situations in IJCAI-ECAI 2022. Check out the project page. (5/2022)
- We are looking for a postdoc to work on the science of Hybrid Intelligence. Details here! (Close date: 21/2/2022)
- We received Seed Funding from Transforming Cities - Pathways to Sustainability for our project "Using Multi-Agent Systems for Simulating Online Social Network Influence on Urban Planning". Joint work with Dr. Yanliu Lin. We are looking for two motivated MS students! (10/2021)
- We are doing a symposium (w/ Sven Nyholm, Cindy Friendman, Bart Verheij, Matthew Dennis) titled "HI/ESDiT collaboration on AI, human values and the law" in 4TU.Ethics bi-annual conference on Ethics and Technology (10/2021)
- Our work (w/ Onuralp Ulusoy) on learning to bid for preserving privacy will appear in ACM TOIT. Find it here: PANOLA: A Personal Assistant for Supporting Users in Preserving Privacy (9/2021)
- I gave a talk on AI and Privacy as part of the Knowledge-Intensive AI in Bristol Interactive AI School.
- Our work (w/ Can Kurtan) on using agents to recommend privacy settings for images in online social networks will appear in JAAMAS April issue. Find it here: Assisting humans in privacy management: an agent-based approach (1/2021)
- Our work (w/ Nadin Kökciyan) on the use of trust to manage privacy is published in IEEE Internet Computing's November/December 2020 issue. Check it out here: TURP: Managing Trust for Regulating Privacy in Internet of Things (12/2020)
- I am co-chairing the IJCAI 2021 Demo Track with Maria Keet. The CFP is here. Please consider submitting (12/2020)
- Onuralp Ulusoy is presenting our work on "Norm-based Access Control" in The ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) 2020 (6/2020)
- Frank Dignum and I are hiring a new PhD student to work on computational theory of mind and privacy as part of the Hybrid Intelligence Project. You can apply here.
- We are organizing a workshop on AI for Privacy. Please consider submitting (1/2020)
- We are editing a special issue of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology on Human-Centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things. TOIT-CfP-Human-Centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things.pdf. Submissions are due 30 June, 2020. (1/2020)
- My piece on the relation between AI and Privacy in the Birgün Newspaper (in Turkish) (12/2019)
- I started serving on the Informatics Advisory Board of Lorentz Center (12/2019)
- I gave a lecture on Agent-Based Privacy Management at Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) (7/6/2019) (Slides here)
- I served on the Review Panel for NSERC Discovery Grant (2/2019)
- I am one of the panelists in IEEE Spoken Languages Technology Workshop (12/2018)
- I gave a Cyber-Security Seminar at TU Delft (30/11/2018)
- I spoke at the Belgian Cybersecurtiy Convention (25/10/2018)
- I gave a talk on collaborative privacy management in ICML Workshop on Privacy in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (15/7/2018)
Awards:
- NC State University, Department of Computer Science, Alumni Hall of Fame, 2017
- Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Microsoft Turkey and KAGIDER, 2017
- Recipient of TUBITAK 2219 Scholarship for Research Visit (Sabbatical Cornell University)
- Best Instructor of Department of Computer Engineering Award, 2015.
- Bogazici University Academic Encouragement Award (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
- Best paper award: Ilker Yildim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, Lale Akarun, Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach, Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW), LNAI 5881, pp.213-229, 2009.
- Finalist for Best PC, AAMAS 2009