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Faculty Member:

 

Prof. Dr. Hatice KÖSE
 Hatice_Kose  

Prof. Dr. Hatice Kose is a full-time member of the AI and Data Engineering Department of the Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey, coordinating the Cognitive Social Robotics Lab, and Game and Interaction Technologies Lab. She is in the academic board of Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, and Game and Interaction Technologies Graduate programs and former coordinator of the Computer Engineering Graduate Program. She received her PhD degree from the Computer Engineering Department, Bogazici University, Turkey. In 2006-2010, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, in the EU Project RobotCub. She was a visiting researcher at Imperial College in 2010, and at University of Manchester in 2016. Her current research focuses on affective and social robots for children. Her research team is working on the emotion/stress recognition of children, and gesture/sign language recognition/generation in robots. Her motivation is to use the assistive robots and turn-taking based interaction games in the therapy and education of children with communication impairment (children with hearing impairment and children with Autism). She is leading several research projects, supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), and ITU Scientific Research Foundation, and takes part in several Horizon2020 projects and Cost actions. She is an IEEE Senior Member since March, 2019.

Selected Projects:

  • (2022-2025) EraPerMed project, TECH-TOYS: Acquire digiTal biomarkErs in InfanCy witH sensorized TOYS for early detection and monitoring of neurodevelopmental disorders-ITU Coordinator;
  • (2022-2026) Cost Action CA21131 - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research (MultiplEYE)-WG2
  • (2019-2022) -Erasmus+ project; Affective loop in Socially Assistive Robotics as an intervention tool for children with autism (EMBOA)-ITU Coordinator;
  • (2018-2020)- TUBITAK project; Roborehab: An Assistant Robot for Audiology Rehabilitation of Children-PI;
  • (2015-2018) - Horizon2020 project; Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing (Etexweld) –Researcher;
  • (2014-2018) - Horizon 2020 COST Action “Play For Children With Disabilities (LUDI)”-MC;
  • (2006-2010) – FP6, Robotcub – Research Fellow (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Graduate Students:

PhD. Students:

 

 

Res. Asst. Pınar ULUER
 Pinar_Uluer  I am currently a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering at Galatasaray University. I received my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Galatasaray University and my PhD degree from the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. My research interests include human-robot interaction, focusing more on the child-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, and affective computing.

 

Cemal GÜRPINAR
 Cemal_Gurpinar  I am presently employed by ROKETSAN A.. and pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at ITU. I received my bachelor's and master's degrees in computer engineering from ITU's Department of Computer Engineering. My research interests include human-robot interaction, with an emphasis on the recognition of children's emotions from images and videos, as well as affective computing.


MSc. Students:

 

 

Res. Asst. Barış BİLEN
 Baris_Bilen  I am currently in my thesis period of MSc. in Computer Engineering at ITU. I am working as a research assistant in the department of AI and Data Engineering at ITU. My B.Sc. is from Mechatronics Engineering at YTU. I am interested in robotic applications in human-robot interaction, specifically on social navigation with emotions.
 

Res. Asst. Erhan BİÇER
 Erhan_Bicer  I am currently in my thesis period of MSc. in Computer Engineering at ITU. I am working as a research assistant in the department of AI and Data Engineering at ITU. I am interested in efficient deep learning applications in human-robot interaction, specifically computationally efficient emotion recognition.
 

Res. Asst. Şeyma TAKIR
 Baris_Bilen  I am in my second year in the master's program in the department of computer engineering at ITU and I am also a research assistant in the department of artificial intelligence and data engineering at this university. I completed my undergraduate education in mechatronics engineering at YTU. My current research topics are emotion and rppg signals detection in children, robot-child interaction.
 

Nursena BÖLÜK
 Nursena_Boluk  I am currently in my thesis period of MSc. in Computer Engineering at ITU. I am working as a Turkcell research assistant in the faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering at ITU. My research focuses on gaze analysis and gaze target detection in human-robot interaction.
 

Sevgi Nur BİLGİN AKTAŞ
 Sevgi_Nur_Bilgin  I am a master student at ITU and currently in the thesis period. I graduated from Biomedical Engineering and did a double major in Computer Engineering at FSMVU. I work as a Touch Systems and UI Development Team Lead at Baykar Defense. My research focuses on human-robot interaction and emotion recognition from physiological data.
 

Ahmet Kemal YETKİN
 Ahmet_Kemal_Yetkin  I am in the thesis period of MSc. in Computer Engineering at ITU. I am working as a Software Test Automation Engineer at Hepsiburada. My thesis topic is about speech-based emotion recognition.