Sinan KALKAN

Sinan KALKAN is a full professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He actively contributes to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics, with a focus on imbalanced learning, bias/fairness, and detection/segmentation tasks. As a member of multiple research centers (METU Robotics and AI Center, METU Image Processing Lab, COVIG Lab (Denmark), and BCCN Center (Germany)), he drives collaborative innovation across Turkey, Denmark, and Germany.

Research Interests include:

• Computer Vision (Object Detection, Segmentation, Recognition)
• Machine/Deep Learning (Imbalance Problems, Bias and Fairness)
• Robotics (Human-Robot Interaction, Context Modeling)

Recent Article Trends show expertise in:

• Unified loss functions for detection/classification
• Uncertainty-aware neural architectures
• Fairness in affective computing
• Imbalance mitigation strategies
• Energy modeling under climate change
• Transformer-based time-series forecasting

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (2016)

Labs and Teams:

• METU Robotics and AI Center
• METU Image Analysis Center
• METU Image Processing Laboratory
• METU Balance
• METU Energy
• Cambridge University AFAR