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Maastricht University – Ph.D., Affective Computing and Machine Learning

• Doctoral Thesis: Bimodal Emotion Recognition Through Audio-Visual Cues

Isanbul Technical University – M.Sc., Computer Engineering

• Graduated with Honors
• Master Thesis: Face Track Retrieval and Recognition Across Age

Istanbul Technical University - B.Sc., Computer Engineering

• Graduated with Honors
• Bachelor Thesis: An Energy Efficient Routing Technique and Implementation in WSNs

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Amsterdam

• Advisors: Prof. Dr. Raquel Fernández Rovira
• Research Area: Face-to-face dialogue modelling

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robots, Agents and Interaction (RAI) Group at Maastricht University

• Advisors: Dr. Stylianos Asteriadis, and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss
• Research Area: Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI), and Human Behavioral Analysis.

Doctoral Researcher at Maastricht University

• Advisors: Dr. Mirela Popa, Dr. Enrique Hortal, Dr. Stylianos Asteriadis, and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss
• Research Area: Affective Computing, Explainable AI, and Human Behavior Analysis

Research Intern in Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (CVHCI) Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Advisor: Dr. Makarand Tapaswi
• Research Area: Computer Vision
• I visited the CVHCI again in the summer 2015, where I conducted the research for my master thesis.

Research Assistant in the Smart Interaction and Machine Intelligence Technologies (SiMiT) Lab at Istanbul Technical University (ITU)

• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hazim Kemal Ekenel
• Research Area: Computer Vision, Human-computer Interaction, Mobile Gaming.

Nomination for best paper award

• Our paper titled Contrastive self-supervised learning for sensor- based human activity recognition was nominated for best paper award at the 2021 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021).

Ranked 1st in the International Challenge on Biometric Recognition in the Wild 2016 (ICB-RW)

ITU Scholarship as project assistant within the scope of the (CAMOMILE) project

Received scholarships sponsored by the Ministries of Higher Education in both Yemen and Turkey, aimed at advancing the education of talented Yemeni students.

Graduated in the top 0.2% of high school graduates nationwide in Yemen