Executive Board

Dr. Sule Gunduz Oguducu is a professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University. She is teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses. She is the head of the Learning from Data Research Laboratory at the Department. 

Dr. Sule Gunduz Oguducu received a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1991, and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, in 1995. Shecarried out her Ph.D. studies from 1999 to 2003 at the Istanbul Technical University. During her doctoral study, she was a visiting research scholar at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in the Database Research Group. Dr. Gunduz Oguducu’s research interests are data mining, Web mining and recommender models.

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Online Product Recommendation Model Based on Deep Learning

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Gülşen Eryiğit is an Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. Her research focus is on Turkish Natural Language Processing (NLP). She is the founding member and the head of the ITU NLP Research Group and the coordinator of the ITU Language Technologies and Social Robotic Laboratory. She is the builder of the Turkish NLP Pipeline (tools.nlp.itu.edu.tr) servicing many academic studies in the field.

Gülşen Eryiğit received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. In 2006, she worked as a visiting student researcher at Växjö University, Sweden where she worked in the first ranked team of Conll shared tasks in 2006 and 2007 on multilingual dependency parsing. In 2007, she won Siemens Excellence award for her PhD thesis. She acted as a reviewer or co-author of various publications in prestigious journals and conferences. She was the Turkey’s representative in CLARIN (EU 7th Framework Programme, CLARIN – Common language resources and technology infrastructure). She has been serving as a consultant or technical advisor to several companies. She has been a reviewer for many research and industrial proposals for European Commission (H2020 and Cost Action Programs), TUBITAK, Turkey’s Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology and Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Parsing Web 2.0 Sentences

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