Abdullah Uz Tansel

Abdullah Uz Tansel is a Professor at the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. He also serves as a Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center of CUNY. His academic journey includes degrees from Middle East Technical University (BS, MS, PhD in Computer Engineering) and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

• Research Focus: Temporal databases, Semantic Web, Blockchain databases, and WEB3.0. He pioneered the first book on temporal databases and holds a patent on temporal RDF extensions.
• Key Publications: 15+ peer-reviewed articles in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Database Engineering, ACM, and Information Systems, with recent works (2024) addressing temporal data management in RDF and integrity constraints.
• Awards & Grants: Recipient of multiple Teaching Excellence Awards, Sabbatical Leaves, and PSC-CUNY research grants for temporal data modeling.
• Service: Active in committees at Baruch College, CUNY, and international conferences like ICDE and WMSCI. Organized departmental conferences and supervised curriculum development.
• Professional Affiliations: ACM and IEEE Computer Society member, with editorial roles in journals like AETiC and Journal of Information & Management.