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Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Program, Sabanci University

Schedule: At my office Mon-Fri 10-4pm most days, except for lecture hours (Tuesdays: 11:40-12:30 and Fridays: 3:40-5:30).

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Teaching

CS404 in Fall 2024 : Capacity will be increased to let anyone graduating this year to take the course. If you want to follow the course until Add/Drop period, here is the course page: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MrkOWrNZzBdfXwyJwsxEVps9No0rlw_h?usp=drive_link

Here is a link to be added to Sucourse asap, before the Add/Drop period: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnNKxpuS1NpCnzEAgqxMOgws9_WRgbXTJ7ow-L1jqFg/edit?usp=sharing

Research

I work in computer vision and machine learning with a focus on handwriting recognition (online, offline; English, Turkish), biometric verification (signature, fingerprint), biometric privacy and image understanding (face, plant…), attribute-based classifiers and NLP applications (sentiment analysis, information summarization).

Education

  • Galatasaray High School (1983).
  • B.E. in Computer Engineering and B.A. in Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, 1988.
  • M.S. and PhD from Dartmouth College, USA (1992,1993).

Short Bio

Berrin Yanikoglu is a Professor of Computer Science and the founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Data Analytics (VERIM), at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bogazici University, Turkey in 1988 and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, USA in 1993. Prof. Yanikoglu worked at Rockefeller University, Xerox Imaging Systems and IBM Almaden Research Center, before joining Sabanci University in 2000. Her research interests lie in the intersection of computer vision and machine learning areas, currently focusing on hate speech detection, supervised and self-supervised image understanding, handwriting recognition for Ottoman text, medical image understanding, and text summarization. She is an Editor for the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Contact

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey 34956  

Office: FENS 2056

berrin at sabanciuniv.edu