Research Interests:
- Privacy
- Trustworthy AI
- Ethics, Values, and Norms for AI systems
Autonomous agents and Multiagent Systems
Current PhD students:
- Tamara Florijn (co-supervised with Tim Baarslag), Algorithms for Concurrent Negotiation
- Alexander Melchior (promoter: Frank Dignum), Agent-Based Modeling and Policy Analysis.
- Emre Erdogan (promoter: Frank Dignum), Computational Theory of Mind
- Anastasia Apeiron (co-supervised with Pradeep Murukannaiah), Consent Management for Responsible Autonomy
- Daan Di Scala (co-supervised with Maaike de Boer, TNO), Trustworthy AI for Recommender Systems
David van Kuijk (co-supervised with Albert Gatt), Trustworthy and Safe LLMs
PhD Students Graduated:
- Murat Sensoy, 2008, ”A Flexible Agent-Mediated E-Commerce Framework For Context Aware Service Selection”, (Now Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon, UK)
- Reyhan Aydogan, 2010, ”Negotiating with Qualitative Preferences: Methods for Generating Bids Effectively”, (Now Associate Professor at Özyegin University, Turkey)
- Özgür Kafali, 2012, ”Automated Reasoning on Exceptions in Commitment-Based Multiagent Systems”, (Now Assistant Professor at University of Kent, UK)
- Akin Günay, 2013, ”Generating, Ranking, and Enacting Commitment Protocols”, (Now Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK)
- Nadin Kökciyan, 2017, ”Detecting Privacy Violations in Online Social Networks”, (Now Assistant Professor at University of Edinburgh)
- Samaneh Heidari, 2022, (promoter: Frank Dignum), "Agents with Social Norms and Values”, (Now Software/Cloud Engineer at Aegon)
- Onuralp Ulusoy, 2022, "Privacy in Collaborative Systems", (Now Postdoc at Utrecht University)
Gönül Ayci, 2023, (co-supervised with Arzucan Özgür at Bogazici University), "Towards Trustworthy Personal Assistants for Privacy", (Now Data Scientist, ABN Amro)
Education:
2000-2003: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Department of Computer Science, Ph.D.
1998-2000: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Department of Computer Science, M.S.
1994-1998: Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Department of Computer Engineering, B.Sc.