Adnan YAZICI

Prof. Dr. Adnan YAZICI is a full Professor and Director of the Multimedia Database Laboratory at the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tulane University, USA, in 1991.

• Research Areas: Intelligent database systems, multimedia and video databases, information retrieval, wireless multimedia sensor networks, data science, and fuzzy database modeling.
• Leadership & Editorial Roles: Conference Co-Chair for major IEEE and Very Large Data Bases conferences; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
• Professional Affiliations: Member of ACM, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee.
• Awards:
  • IBM Faculty Award (2011)
  • Parlar Foundation’s Young Investigator Award (2001)