About

I am the head of the Pervasive Systems research group at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Formerly, I worked as a faculty member at the Department of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University and Galatasaray University. I received my PhD in computer science from the University of Twente. I also visited USC’s Autonomous Networks research group (ANRG) during my PhD studies.

Research Interests

My objective is to utilize sensing technologies available on the Internet of Things, mobile and wearable devices, and machine learning techniques to build context-aware, intelligent and resource-efficient systems that ease people’s lives across different areas: well-being, health, assistive living, industrial applications, smart cities. My research interests are on applied machine learning, human activity and well-being recognition, edge AI in the fields of wearable and ubiquitous computing, the Internet of things, and protocol design for resource efficiency in Wireless Networks.

News and Announcements

• On April 2, I’ll be speaking at the Science Track of the National Autonomous Systems Congress 2025 in the Netherlands
• (March 17, 2025) I participated in the committee of Lin Zhou’s PhD thesis defence at Hasso Plattner Institute (University of Potsdam): “Personalized Mobile Gait Analysis: Towards Wearable-Based Rehabilitation in Daily Life”
• (February 2025) Gergana Georgieva successfully defended her MSc thesis: “Leveraging Earable Sensors for Lightweight Gait-Based User Recognition”
• (January 2025) Yixiang Lu successfully defended his MSc thesis: “Resource-Efficient Deep Learning For Mobile Activity Recognition On Edge Devices”
• (December 2024) I have joined Lorentz Center Informatics Scientific Advisory Board
• (November 2024) Invited to serve on the TPC of SenSys 2025
• (November 2024) Starting to serve as an Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies PACM IMWUT.
• (September 2024) I delivered a keynote speech entitled “Beyond the Basics: Enhancing Lightweight Models for Resource-efficient Human Activity Recognition” at the 9th International Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IWOAR) held at HPI in Potsdam.
• (August 2024) Sümeyye Ağaç successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Enhancing Lightweight Models for Efficient Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition.”
• (June, 2024) I participated in the committee of Seyed Keyarash Ghiasi’s PhD thesis defence at TUDelft: “Passive Visible Light Communications”
• (June, 2024) Berrenur Saylam successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Machine Learning for Well-being Assessment: Exploring Digital Biomarkers”.
• (February 29, 2024) I participated as an opponent in the committee of Nikita Sharma’s PhD thesis defence at the University of Twente: “Sensing the Care:: Advancing Unobtrusive Sensing Solutions To Support Informal Caregivers Of Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment”
• (January, 2024) I joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing as an Associate Editor.
• (December 13, 2023) I participated in the grading committee of Zhitao He’s PhD thesis defence at Uppsala University: “Enabling Scalable Security in Internet of Things”
• (November 13, 2023) I was one of the panelists at the N2Women Meeting as part of SenSys 2023 conference.
• (November 2022) Together with Albert Ali Salah, we hosted an Expert Workshop in the HumMingBird project about ‘Making the most of mobile phone data to map migration’ at Bogazici University.
• (2021) I received the Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), Turkey