Academic Background

• 2014, PhD, Computer Engineering, Yıldız Technical University
  
• 2007, MSc, Computer Engineering, Kocaeli University
• 2003, BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2003, BSc, Business Administration (Minor), Istanbul Bilgi University 

Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Text Mining
• Data Science
• Big Data Analytics

Academic Appointments:

• 2023- Director of Institute of Graduate Programs, İstanbul Bilgi University
• 2021- Member of Faculty Board of Directors, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science, İstanbul Bilgi University
• 2020-2023  Visa Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science, İstanbul Bilgi University
• 2019- Member of Faculty Board, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science, İstanbul Bilgi University
• 2019-2023  Coordinator of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science for Quality Commission-MUDEK and WSCUC accreditation programs

• 2019- Head of Department of Computer Engineering, İstanbul Bilgi University
• 2016- Assistant Professor, İstanbul Bilgi University Computer Engineering Department
• 2007-2016, Teaching Staff, İstanbul Bilgi University Computer Engineering Department, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
• 2003-2007, Research Asisstant, İstanbul Bilgi University Computer Engineering Department

Projects:

• TÜBİTAK 2556 | 123N661: Equity-Based Blockchain Crowdfunding Platform Issuing Security Tokens for Turkish and Qatari Start-Up Equity (Researcher), 2024-

• TÜBİTAK COST 2519 | 121K733: CA16102 - European Network on Individualized Psychotherapy Treatment of Young People with Mental Disorders”, (Researcher), 2022 -
• TÜBİTAK SAYEM | 3219501: Smart Home Platform – Smart Bathroom Technologies, (Director), 2022 -
• BILGI RDI | Sürdürülebilir Kentlere Doğru: İstanbul’da Akıllı Park Sistemi ve Politika Geliştirme Projesi, 2020, (Researcher)
• BILGI RDI | POlarization viewed from SOcial choice Perspective (POSOP), (Researcher), 2020
• BILGI BAP | Scientific Research Fund,  Media Monitoring and Text Analysis Web Application for Social Scientists”, (Director), 2018-2019.

Awards:

• Fatma Hilal Börklü, Deniz Günenç, Doç. Dr. Tuğba Dalyan, “A Transformer-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Model for School-Age Children”, TÜBİTAK 2209-A, 2024.
• Emine Esin Yılmaz, Onur Çalışkan, Resul Erdem Arduç, Doç. Dr. Tuğba Dalyan, “Machine Learning-Natural Language Processing Based User Recommendation Model Developed Using Vehicle Features and Description Texts in Second Hand Vehicle Selection”, TÜBİTAK 2209-A, 2024.
• Yunus Emre Şimşek, Tarık Emre Talay ve Pelin Kaya, Doç. Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Tuğba Dalyan, “Irony Detection from Turkish Text”, 2209-A TÜBİTAK, 2023.

• Ahmet Emre Serdemir, Mehmet Beşenk, Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Tuğba Dalyan, “An ANN-based Automatic Circuit Netlist Generator”, 2209-A TÜBİTAK, 2022.
• Horizon2020 - Eşik Üstü Ödülü, Microorganism (MI) Ecosystem Monitoring System (MOS) with Citizen Science Activities (CSA) MIMOSCSA 2024, 2020
• Cenk Anıl Bahçevan, Emirhan Kutlu ve Tuğba Yıldız, Tübitak 2242 Competition, AVICENA: Health Bot, İstanbul Bölge İkincisi, 11 Ekim 2018 (2nd Place).
• Cenk Anıl Bahçevan, Gözde Şintürk, Miraç Şanyılmaz, Tuğba Yıldız Tübitak 2242 Competition, UNICORN : Question-Answer System, 22-25 Ekim 2016, (3rd Place).
• Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2012). “Corpus-Driven Hyponym Acquisition for Turkish Language”, CICLing 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics 2012, Proceedings Part I, LNCS 7181, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 29-41 (Best Paper Award)

Publication List:

International Journal Articles (SCI Index):

Serhat Atik, Tuğba Dalyan (2023), "Feature Selection Optimization with Filtering and Wrapper Methods: Two Disease Classification Cases", Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 31(1), 329–1342.

Hasan Han, Oğuzcan Karadeniz, Tuğba Dalyan, Elena Battini Sönmez, Baykal Sarıoğlu (2023), "Acknowledge of Emotions for Improving Student-Robot Interaction", Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, 7(1), 1209-1224. 

Emrecan Çelik, Tuğba Dalyan,  Unified benchmark for zero-shot Turkish text classification (2023), Information Processing & Management, 60(3), 103298.

Tuğba Dalyan, Özgür Özdemir, Hakan Ayral (2022), "A Comprehensive Study of Learning Approaches for Author Gender Identification", Information Technology and Control Journal, 51(3) : 429-445.

Özgür Özdemir, Emre Salih Akın, Rıza Velioğlu, Tuğba Dalyan (2021), "A comparative study of neural machine translation models for Turkish language", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 42(3) : 2103-2113.

Elena Battini Sönmez, Hasan Han, Oğuzcan Karadeniz, Tuğba Dalyan, Baykal Sarıoğlu (2021), "EMRES: A new EMotional RESpondent robot", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 14(2) : 772-780.

Tuğba Yıldız, Elena Battini Sönmez, Berk Dursun Yılmaz, Ali Emre Demir (2020), Images captioning in Turkish language: database and model, Journal of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Gazi University, 35 (4) : 2089 -2100.

Tuğba Yıldız (2019), A comparative study of author gender identification, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 27(2) : 1052-1064.

Tuğba Yıldız and Savaş Yıldırım, (2019), “A cascaded framework for identification and extraction of antonym for Turkish language”, Soft Computing, 23 : 7853–7864.

Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2018), “Learning Turkish Hypernymy Using Word Embeddings”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 11(1): 371-383

Tuğba Yıldız, Banu Diri, Savaş Yıldırım, (2017). “Turkish synonym identification from multiple resources: monolingual corpus, mono/bilingual on-line dictionaries and WordNet”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 25(2):752-760.

Tuğba Yıldız, Banu Diri, Savaş Yıldırım, (2016). “Acquisition of Turkish meronym based on classification of patterns”. Journal of Pattern Analysis and Applications, 19(2): 495–507.

TR Index:

İslam Mayda, Banu Diri, Tuğba Dalyan, (2021), " Türkçe Tweetler üzerinde Makine Öğrenmesi ile Nefret Söylemi, Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi,24: 328-334, https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.903854.

Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2018), "Türkçe için karşılaştırmalı metin sınıflandırma analizi", Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, DOI: 10.5505/pajes.2018.15931.

Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2018), "A Comparison of Different Approaches to Document Representation in Turkish Language", Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, DOI: 10.19113/sdufbed.15893.

International Journal Articles:

Gurkan Sahin, Banu Diri, Tugba Yildiz, (2016). Extraction of Turkish Semantic Relation Pairs using Corpus Analysis Tool. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, 5(6): 491-499.

Savas Yildirim, Tugba Yildiz, (2015). An Unsupervised Text Normalization Architecture for Turkish Language. Research in Computing Science, 90: 183-194.

Book Chapters:

Ahmet Suerdem, Tuğba Dalyan, Savaş Yıldırım (2023). Detection of Change in the Senses of AI in Popular Discourse. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13397. Springer, Cham.

Tuğba Dalyan, İrem Otay, Mehmet Gülada, (2022) "Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy AHP&TOPSIS for ERP Software Selection", In: Kahraman, C., Tolga, A.C., Cevik Onar, S., Cebi, S., Oztaysi, B., Sari, I.U. (eds) Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. INFUS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 505. Springer, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09176-6_78.

Tuğba Yıldız, İrem Otay,  (2020) "Multi-criteria Cloud Computing Service Provider Selection Employing Pythagorean Fuzzy AHP and VIKOR", INFUS: International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Intelligent and Fuzzy Techniques: Smart and Innovative  Solutions, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, 423-431.

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, Banu Diri,  (2016) A Study on Turkish Meronym Extraction Using a Variety of Lexico-Syntactic Patterns. In: Vetulani Z., Uszkoreit H., Kubis M. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9561, pp 386-394. Springer, Cham.

Tuğba Yıldız, Banu Diri, Savaş Yıldırım, (2014). “An Integrated Approach to Automatic Synonym Detection in Turkish Corpus”, 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, POLTAL, Proceedings Part I, LNAI 8686, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp. 116-127.

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, Banu Diri, (2013). “Extraction of Part-Whole Relations from Turkish Corpora”, CICLing 2013: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, LNCS 7816, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 126-138.

Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2012). “Corpus-Driven Hyponym Acquisition for Turkish Language”, CICLing 2012: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Proceedings Part I, LNCS 7181, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 29-41.

Savaş Yıldırım, Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Tuğba Yıldız, (2009). “Pronoun Resolution in Turkish Using Decision Tree and Rule-Based Learning Algorithms”, LNCS 5603, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 270-278

International Conference Papers:

Hasan Berat Gürbüz, Abdurrahim Balta, Tuğba Dalyan; Y. Dağhan Gökdel, Engin Afacan (2023), "Img2Sim-V2: A CAD Tool for User-Independent Simulation of Circuits in Image Format", 19th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 10.1109/SMACD58065.2023.10192193.

Ahmet Emre Sertdemir, Mehmet Beşenk, Tuğba Dalyan, Yiğit Dağhan Gökdel and Engin Afacan (2022), "From Image to Simulation: An ANN-based Automatic Circuit Netlist Generator (Img2Sim),"  18th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SMACD55068.2022.9816254.

Hasan Han, Oğuzcan Karadeniz, Elena Battini Sönmez,Tuğba Dalyan, Baykal Sarıoğlu (2021), Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild with Application in Robot, 2021 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), IEEE Explore, Ankara, Turkey.

Berk Dursun Yılmaz, Ali Emre Demir, Elena Battini Sönmez and Tuğba Yıldız, (2019) "Image Captioning in Turkish Language,"  Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference (ASYU), Izmir, Turkey.

Eimal Dorani, Nevcihan Duru and Tuğba Yıldız, (2019) "An Empirical Investigation of Performances of Different Word Embedding Algorithms in Comment Clustering," 2019 Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference (ASYU), Izmir, Turkey.

Salih Emre Akın, Tuğba Yıldız, (2019) "Sentiment Analysis through Transfer Learning for Turkish Language", International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2019), IEEE Explore, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Rıza Velioğlu, Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, Sentiment Analysis Using Learning Approaches over Emojis for Turkish Tweets, III. Uluslararası Bilgisayar Bilimleri ve Mühendisliği Konferansı (UBMK 2018).

Cenk Anıl Bahçevan, Emirhan Kutlu, Tuğba Yıldız, Deep Neural Network Architecture for Part-of-Speech Tagging for Turkish Language, III. Uluslararası Bilgisayar Bilimleri ve Mühendisliği Konferansı (UBMK 2018).

Ahmet Süerdem, Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, (2018). “Detection of different senses of AI in popular discourse via word embeddings”, 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, pp. 219-220.

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, Özge Şamlı, (2017). “Question Classificaition via Deep Neural Network”, 8th Language & Technology Conference, Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, pp. 219-220.Gürkan Şahin, Banu Diri, Tuğba Yıldız, (2016). “A hybrid method for extracting Turkish part-whole relation pairs from corpus”, 24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU), pp. 1037-1040.

Gürkan Şahin, Banu Diri, Tuğba Yıldız, (2015). “Analysis of Lexico Syntactic Patterns for Antonym Pair Extraction from a Turkish Corpus”, 4th International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies and Applications, ICAITA, Dubai, UAE, pp. 11-17.

Gürkan Şahin, Banu Diri, Tuğba Yıldız, (2015). “Pattern and semantic similarity based automatic extraction of hyponym-hypernym relation from Turkish corpus, 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 674-677.

Tuğba Yıldız, Banu Diri, SavaşYıldırım, (2013).  “Analysis of Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Meronym Extraction from a Turkish Corpus”, 6th Language and Technology Conference, Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC, Poland.

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım, (2012). “Association rule based acquisition of hyponym and hypernym relation from a Turkish corpus”, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), Trabzon/Turkey.

Savaş Yıldırım, Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Tuğba Yıldız, A Decision Tree and Rule-based Learning Model for Anaphora Resolution in Turkish, 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics October 5-7, 2007, Poznań, Poland, pp.89-93. 

National Conference Papers:

Tugba Dalyan, Nevcihan Duru, (2006).  “A Novel 1R Approach To Derive Rules”, in TAINN Turkish Artificial Intelligence Neural Network Program, 21- 23 Haziran 2006, pp. 141-150.

Tuğba Yıldız, Savaş Yıldırım ve Turgay Altılar, (2008). “İstenmeyen İletilerin Paralelleştirilmiş KNN Algorithması ile Tespiti”, Akademik Bilişim Konferansı, 31 Ocak-2 Şubat, 2008, pp. 627-632.

Tuğba Yıldız, Ruhan İkeda, (2007). “GNU/Linux Üzerinde Müzik”, Akademik Bilişim Konferansı, 31 Ocak-2 Şubat 2007.

Posters:

Savaş Yıldırım, Tugba Yıldız, (2012). “Automatic Extraction of Turkish Hypernym-Hyponym Pairs From Large Corpus”. COLING 2012 (DEMOS), pp. 493-500.

AWARDS (Best Paper Award: Second Place)

Savaş Yıldırım, Tuğba Yıldız, (2012). “Corpus-Driven Hyponym Acquisition for Turkish Language”, CICLing 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics 2012, Proceedings Part I, LNCS 7181, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 29-41