Mustafa Sert

Mustafa Sert, currently serving as Associate Professor at Başkent University's Department of Computer Engineering and as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, has made significant contributions to audio signal processing, machine learning, and semantic multimedia. He earned his PhD (2006), MSc (2001), and BSc (1997) in Computer Engineering from Gazi University, supervised by prominent academics.

• PhD: Gazi University (2006)
• MSc: Gazi University (2001)
• BSc: Gazi University (1997)

His research focuses on audio-visual content analysis, multimodal information fusion, and machine learning applications in semantic multimedia systems. He leads projects at the intersection of deep learning, speech processing, and acoustic pattern recognition, with work appearing in venues like IEEE Access, ACM Multimedia conferences, and Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).

Recent publications demonstrate trends in automated audio captioning, medical speech analysis, and educational data mining, with applications spanning mental health detection, chatbot development, and reviewer selection systems. His work integrates transformer architectures, convolutional networks, and fuzzy decision-making models.

Scientific Recognitions:

• Best Paper Award (7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 2021)
• Outstanding Reviewer Awards (IEEE ICME 2020, 2021)
• Outstanding Area Chair Award (ACM Multimedia 2024)

Academic Leadership includes roles as Senior IEEE Member, technical committee board positions in IEEE CTSoc divisions, and ACM membership. He supervises over 20 graduate students in topics ranging from depression detection through speech to geothermal permeability estimation, while maintaining active involvement in conference organization and journal reviewing for top-tier publications.