| I am a faculty member at Department of Computer Engineering
    at Bilkent University.  
    I am the co-director of RETINA
    Vision and Learning Group. Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher
    at the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University. I completed my
    PhD, MSc and BS studies at the Department
    of Computer Engineering, of Middle
    East Technical University, Turkey. From February 2001 to May 2002 I was
    a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in
    Computer Vision Group
    and Digital Library Project.
    During summer 2004, I was a senior researcher at CLSP Summer Workshop on Joint Visual Text
    Modeling at Johns Hopkins University.
 My research interests include computer vision and multimedia data mining,
    specifically object and face recognition, semantic analysis and retrieval
    of large multimedia  collections,  historical document
    understanding and action recognition.
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