Graduate School of Informatics

As a result of the applications for Health Informatics Department M.S. and Ph.D. Programs for 2018-2019 Fall semester,

interviews will be held for M.S. programs on thursday, June 28, 2018

and for Ph.D Programs on Friday, June 29, 2018.

Candidates listed below who are invited to the interviews are expected to be present in front of the Informatics Institute  Conference Room-2 at specified time intervals.

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THEIR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS TO THE INTERVIEWS

M.S. Program Interviews

28 June 2018 / 09:30 - 12:30 

Ph.D. Program Interviews

29 June 2018 / 09:30 - 13:30 

Title: COGNITIVE, PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR AND SOCIAL FACTORS IN TOOL MAKING IN CHILDREN

PhD Candidate: Gökhan Gönül

Program: Cognitive Science Department 

Date: 10 July Tuesday15:30

Place: Conference Hall-01

Abstract:Making tools and using tools expertly has been considered as one of the most distinctive abilities of humans. However, pre-school children are not proficient in every aspect of tool-related behaviors, in particular tool making. The cognitive, perceptual-motor and social factors in the tool making in children have been disregarded by researchers hitherto. Considering the cognitive and social abilities of humans, this thesis aims to provide a new way of looking at human tool making. In addition, it is aimed to find facilitative factors in the process of tool making.

Dr. Itır Önal Ertuğrul (Carnegie Mellon University) is going to give a seminar titled "Automated Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Actions". You are all kindly invited.

Location: Conference Room (124), METU Informatics Institute

Time: 28 June 2018, 11:30-12:30


Abstract: Automated analysis of facial actions is a challenging task due to moderate to large head rotation in real-world conditions and differences in the factors of domains such as view angle and resolution. In addition to their automated analysis, synthesis of facial actions has drawn much attention, as it is useful in face data augmentation for emotion recognition. In this talk, I will present 1) a deep approach for multi-label facial action unit detection and its application to assess treatment response in patients treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); 2) a capsule-based approach to detect multiple action units from facial images having wide range of head orientations; 3) cross-domain generalizability problems of current facial action unit detection models and possible adversarial domain adaptation solutions; and 4) a kinship synthesis framework, in which facial expression videos of probable children are synthesized from videos of parents.

Biography: Itır Önal Ertuğrul received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Computer Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University in 2011, 2013 and 2017, respectively. She worked as a Research Assistant at Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University between 2011 - 2017. During her Ph.D., she visited Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics Group at Delft University of Technology as a visiting Ph.D. student between July – September 2016. After her Ph.D., she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Affect Analysis Group, University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include affective computing, facial expression analysis and biomedical signal processing. For more information, please see her webpage at http://user.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~itir/

Cybersecurity Department Applications of Transfer from MSc Non-Thesis to MScThesis are evaluated  and the names of the candidates who are eligible for the transfer to the Thesis Master program are given below.

As a result of the applications for Cybersecurity Department M.S. non-thesis Program for 2018-2019 Fall semester,

interviews will be held on Monday, June 25, 2018.

Candidates listed below who are invited to the interviews are expected to be present in front of the Informatics Institute II-02 (S-02) class at specified time intervals.

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THEIR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS TO THE INTERVIEWS.

GROUP 1:  11:00-12:00

GROUP 2: 12:00-13:00

GROUP 3: 13:00-14:00

As a result of the applications for Cognitive Science Department Ph.D. Program for 2018-2019 Fall semester,

interviews will be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Candidates listed below who are invited to interviews are expected to be present in front of the Informatics Institute II-03 (S-03) class at 10:00.

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THEIR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS TO THE INTERVIEWS.

EROLCAN AKBABA

ALAZ AYDIN

DİDEM AYHAN

ÇAĞDAŞ BOSTANCI

RAUF KAAN DENİZER

AYŞENUR HÜLAGÜ

BORABAY KADİRDAĞ

EMRE CAN KAYA

GALİP ORAL OKAN

CEYHUN ÖZSOYLU

MANI TAJADDINI

ÇAĞATAY TAŞCI

EFECAN YILMAZ

Interviews for 2018-2019 academic year fall semester Cyber Security Department Non-Thesis Program will be held on 25 July 2018.Candidates who will be invited to the interviews will be announced during the day.

There will not be any interviews for the Master without thesis program.

Interviews for 2018-2019 academic year fall semester Information Systems Department Master and PhD Programs will be held between 03-05 July 2018. Candidates who will be invited to the interviews will be announced after the application period ends.