We are actively seeking enthusiastic M.Sc. and Ph.D. students to work on tractable learning algorithms with exact dynamics in deep learning and non-convex optimization problems. Multiple funds are available from TUBITAK, Koç University (KU), and KUIS AI Center. For further information, please send an email to Asst. Prof. Zafer Doğan at zdogan@ku.edu.tr.

We are looking for highly motivated graduate students for our project “Deep Learning for Sketch Recognition”. Please send an email to T. Metin Sezgin at mtsezgin@ku.edu.tr with your CV, transcript, and a paragraph explaining your motivation for applying to this position.

We are looking for highly motivated graduate students for our projects BeyondMoore and SparCity. Please fill out this form. Note that this form is NOT an official application but serves as a fast evaluation form. PhD and MSc applicants still need to officially apply for the Koç University Graduate Program. for more details about positions please click here.

We are looking for highly motivated graduate students for our project "The Road Less Travelled: One-Shot Learning of Rare Events in Autonomous Driving". Please send an email to Fatma Güney at fguney@ku.edu.tr with your CV, transcript, and a paragraph explaining your motivation for applying to this position (half a page max).

This summer, we are organizing an online AI Summer Camp for high school students! There will be introductory-level courses as well as practical sessions in various subjects of AI such as Computer Vision, Robotics, and Natural Language Processing.

Join our webinar to find out more about the Koç University Iş Bankası Artificial Intelligence Research Center Ph.D. and Master Fellowships for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Admission. We are going to hold an “Ask me Anything” event online on May 15th, between 15:00-17:00. We will briefly introduce faculty members, research areas, infrastructure and funding opportunities, and answer questions from the participants. Send your questions before the webinar and make sure you check the KUIS AI Center research areas, faculty members and projects on our website. Please fill out the form if interested: https://kocun.zoom.us/webinar/register/3316194390839/WN_jsgIGEl-SAGmWemPIKlseg

We congratulate  Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aykut Erdem, Committee Member of KUIS AI Center, who is awarded the 2021 Science Academy Young Scientists Award Program (BAGEP 2021).

We are experiencing a paradigm shift to learned nonlinear models in signal-image-video processing. There are no theoretical bounds on the performance limits of learned models, it is not possible to tell how much the results can be further improved. In order to fill this gap in the state of the art, this project aims following.

Our preliminary results demonstrate that even though these tasks are very intuitive for humans, the implemented baselines could not cope with the underlying challenges.

Recent paper by Zana Buçinca, Yücel Yemez, Engin Erzin, and Metin Sezgin: "AffectON: Incorporating Affect Into Dialog Generation" has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Recent paper "Cyberphysical Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" is published as part of the Cover Feature of IEEE Computer. Three blockchain-based energy-trading models are proposed to overcome the technical challenges and market barriers as well as enhance the adoption of this disruptive technology.

A new single input multiple output deep temporal regression network (DTRN) to detect the vocal tract (VT) contour and the separation boundary between different articulators.