Title
Senior Research Scholar @UCI
Associate Professor of CSE @Baskent University
Samueli School of Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Area of Study/Expertise
Audio-Video Analysis, Acoustic Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, NLP, Multimodality.
Office Location
EH 4437
Phone Number
(949) 824-0000
Email
msert@uci.edu
Mustafa Sert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mustafa Sert is currently a senior research scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, while also holding the position of Associate Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Engineering at Başkent University. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of audio signal processing, machine learning, semantic multimedia, and software engineering (SWE). In particular, his expertise includes deep learning, language-based audio analysis, speech processing, acoustic pattern recognition, audio-video content understanding, and multimodal analysis (research).
Mustafa Sert is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Başkent University. He has been an administrative board member of the Distance Education Center (BUZEM) since 2011 and a board member of the Faculty of Engineering since 2021. He previously served as the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Computer Engineering (2008–2012), a faculty administrative board member of the Faculty of Engineering (2008–2021), and as a board member of Kazan Vocational School (2018–2022) and Anadolu O.S.B. Vocational School (2020–2021).
He serves on the technical reviewing and organizing committees of several international conferences, including IEEE ICCE (2022-), IEEE ICME (2019-), VLDB 2012, FUZZ-IEEE (2015-), ACM MM (2019-), IEEE ISM (2008-), and ACM MMM. He is also a reviewer for top-tier journals such as IEEE/ACM TASLP, IEEE SPL, Springer MTAP, Springer SIVP, IEEE TII, IEEE Access, IEEE TFS, IEEE TMM, and IEEE TPAMI.
Dr. Sert has received recognitions for his contributions to academia, including a Best Paper award in the 7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 2021, two Outstanding Reviewer awards from IEEE ICME (2020, 2021) and the Outstanding Area Chair award from ACM Multimedia (2024). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is also a member of the Technical Communities on Computer Communications (TCCC), Multimedia Computing (TCMC), and Semantic Computing (TCSEM). Additionally, he has been selected for the technical committees of IEEE CTSoc’s Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS), Consumer Communications Networks and Connectivity (CCN), and Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI in Consumer Electronics (MDA).
Education
- B.S., Gazi University, Computer Science and Engineering, 1997
- M.S., Gazi University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2001
- Ph.D., Gazi University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2006
Professional Experience
- [2024- present): Senior Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
- [2023- present): Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2020- present): Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2015-present): Member of the Faculty Board, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2006-2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Member of the Faculty Administrative Board, Faculty of Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Vice Chairman, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [1998-2006]: Instructor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Jun.1998-Sep.1998]: Database Administrator, Computer Center, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [1997-1998]: Instructor, Technical Vocational School, Computer Division, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
Academic Distinctions
- Senior Research Scholar, Dept. of EECS, University of California, Irvine
- Senior Member of the IEEE
- TC member of the IEEE CTSoc AVS
- TC member of the IEEE CTSoc MDA
- TC member of the IEEE CTSoc CCN
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Area Chair award in the ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia
- Outstanding Reviewer Award in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME) in 2021, Shenzhen, China
- Best Paper award in the 7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 2021
- Outstanding Reviewer award in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME) in 2020, London, United Kingdom
- Research project with grant number 109E014 has selected and published in “Success Stories Booklet” of TUBITAK Academic Research Funding Programs Directorate (ARDEB). In this booklet, 120 projects of approx. 10000 successfully completed projects are included on the basis of research groups (2015).
- [Jun.1997-Aug.1997]: Oracle Traning Certificates – SQL, SQL *Plus, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 Reports, Developer 2000 Oracle Forms, Develop Apps. Using Database Procedures, ORACLE Database Administration and Backup and Recovery. Oracle Training Center
Professional Activities
Reviewer of following journals
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, (2023 – present)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (2022 – present)
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters (IEEE SPL), (2017 – present)
- IEEE Access, (2019 – present)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), (2016 – present)
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII), (2019 – present)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (IEEE/ACM TASLP), (2015 – present)
- Springer’s Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, (2015 – present)
- Springer’s Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, (2010 – present)
- Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, TUBITAK (2015 – present)
- Gazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, (2013 – present)
Organization/Technical committee member of following conferences
- Area Chair, ACM Multimedia (2022-)
- Workshop Co-Chair, PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE), (2022-)
- Demo co-chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (IEEE AI4I, 2018)
- Workshop co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM, 2017-2018)
- Workshop co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM, 2017)
- Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC, 2017-2018)
- Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM, 2016)
- Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC, 2016)
- Local arrangements co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE, 2015)
- Local arrangements co-chair, International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB, 2012)
- National Symposium on Network and Information Security (ABGS, 2010)
PC member and reviewer of following conferences
- IEEE ICCE (2022-), IEEE ICME (2019 -), ACM MM (2020-), IEEE ICASSP (2021-), EUSIPCO (2022, 2023)
- IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 – present
- IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) – ISM 2008, ISM 2009
- International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS) – FQAS 2009
- International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) – ISCIS 2006
Session chair of the following conferences
- IEEE ISM (2013-), IEEE SIU (2016-), IEEE ICSC (2018-), IEEE INISTA (2021), IEEE AIKE (2023) 2014)