Dear Members of the Graduate School of Informatics,

6th Open Research Day (ORD) of the Graduate School of Informatics will be held on 12 November 2025, Wednesday. This year’s ORD will be jointly organized with the opening ceremony of the Cisco Cyber Security Laboratory. Please note the important dates below and fill in the brief form to secure your place at this event. A detailed program will be shared later.

The aim of the Open Research Day is to get familiar with the research topics across the departments, to create new interdisciplinary collaborations, and to encourage students and research assistants to present their work before their thesis defense or conference presentations. The submitted studies will not appear in a printed proceedings volume, and no copyright will be claimed. Therefore, we solicit contributions that are:

· Titles of already published work related to any field in informatics sciences (e.g. publications based on thesis work). 

· These will not require the approval of the advisor, but the title will be used to determine the program. 

· Please make sure you reference the original paper the submission is based on.

· Original, unpublished work and work in progress. 

· We do not claim copyright. 

· These will require the approval of the advisor for graduate students.

· Any research topics/projects the project coordinators would like to present as a poster.

We kindly invite you to submit a title by the end of the deadline below and bring your poster to the Open Research Day. The poster stands are 110 x 90 cm and have a vertical/portrait orientation.

Posters will be evaluated for awards in different categories. Awardees will be able to present their work again in 5-10 minutes at a separate awards ceremony.

Register by entering your details and title via: 

https://forms.gle/FedXSeu8rZhqzZYk8

Dear Students,

In the 2025-2026 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Cybersecurity program will be held face to face on September 24, 2025 at 13:30 at II-06 in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

Dear Students,

In the 2025-2026 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Information Systems program will be held face to face on September 23, 2025 at 10:00 at Neşe Yalabık Conference Hall in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

Dear Students,

In the 2025-2026 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Data Informatics program will be held face to face on September 22, 2025 at 10:00 at Neşe Yalabık Conference Hall in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

The 5th Open Research Day is approaching! Please see the programme below:

- Opening and Keynote Presentation*: 6 December 2024, 13:00 – 13:30, Ural Akbulut Hall;

- Poster Presentations: 6 December 2024, 13:30 – 15:30, Main Hall;

- Awards ceremony and presentations: 13 December 2024, 13:30 – 14:30, Ural Akbulut Hall.

The aim of the Open Research Day is to:

- Familiarize attendees with research topics across the departments of METU Informatics Institute (II).
- Create new interdisciplinary collaborations.
- Encourage students and research assistants of METU II to present their work before their thesis defense or conference presentations.

We kindly invite you to participate in our event. In addition to the poster session, there will be a *keynote presentation titled "Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Health and Biology" by Prof. Dr. Tunca Doğan.

Dear Students,

In the 2024-2025 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Cyber Security program will be held face to face on September 25, 2024 at 13:30-16:00 at II-06 Classroom in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

Dear Students,

In the 2024-2025 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Information Systems program will be held face to face on September 24, 2024 at 14:00 at Neşe Yalabık Conference Hall in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

Dear Students,

In the 2024-2025 Academic Year Fall Term, our introduction and information meeting with our students who have been accepted to the Data Informatics program will be held face to face on September 24, 2024 at 11:00 at Neşe Yalabık Conference Hall in Informatics Institute.

We congratulate our students who have been accepted to the program and wish them success.

We are pleased to announce an upcoming seminar titled "From Bias to Balance – A Study of 114,799 Skin Lesions in the US, Nigeria, Poland, and Turkey for Fair and Balanced Artificial Intelligence in Global Dermatology." This seminar will be held on Monday, June 10th, at 14:00 in Neşe Yalabık Conference Room, Graduate School of Informatics, METU. Further details are shared below.

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar.

Speaker: Christoph Sadée, Staff Scientist, Stanford University, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR)

Date: June 10th
Time: 14:00
Location: METU, Graduate School of Informatics, Neşe Yalabık Seminar Room

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Biography:

Christoph Sadée is a staff scientist in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University. His background spans multiple different fields, from Physics, Biochemistry to Computational Modeling within the Biosciences. He initially started his work in Medical Physics on the simulation of a cancer treatment device before switching to wet-lab work and the exploration of RNA biology. Here, he holds several patents for the automated purification of biomolecules, while developing a comprehensive thermodynamic model of RNA-protein interactions, using pumilio protein Puf4 as a case study. He is currently combining his expertise in the Gevaert lab, integrating diverse data modalities into multimodal ai for medical applications.

Multimedia Informatics Spring 2023-2024 Academic Year Orientation Meeting for our newly registered students will be held on 14.02.2024 at 11:00 am at Room A-212. Welcome to our program!