VAROL AKMAN
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BIO
Akman is a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University. He arrived at Bilkent in 1988 and was promoted to Associate Professorship in 1990 and Professorship in 1995.
Akman’s research is concentrated in AI & NLP and AI & Law. He also works on societal impact of the Internet.
A Fulbright scholar (1980-’85), Akman received a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the supervision of Professor W. Randolph Franklin. Prior to joining Bilkent, he held a research position (1986-’88) with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, and a visiting faculty position (1985-’86) with Universiteit Utrecht.
Akman is the founding chair (2002-’15) of Bilkent’s Philosophy Department.
SNAIL MAIL
Department of Computer Engineering
EA Building, Room 503
Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
Bilkent, Ankara 06800, Turkey
PHONE NUMBERS, ETC.
[country code: 90, area code: 312]
Secretary: 290 1218
Office: 290 1537
Fax: 266 4047
Zoom or Webex: akm**@bilkent.edu.tr (replace asterisks w/obvious letters)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
AI and NLP, esp. the role of context in natural language understanding.
AI and Law, esp. ethical and social implications.
Social Aspects of the Internet, esp. Twitter as a political medium.
RECENT COURSES
CS 461 – Artificial Intelligence
CS 483 – Natural Language Processing
CS 513 – Implications of the Internet
CS 578 – Natural Language Processing
CS 590 – Research Seminar I
CS 690 – Research Seminar II
CONFERENCE DUTIES
2020
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Control Theory and Applications (ICoCTA 2020), Sydney, Australia, 17-19 February 2020
- Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020), Valletta, Malta, 22-24 February 2020
- Program Committee, Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (NLPinAI 2020), a special session within ICAART 2020, Valletta, Malta, 22-24 February 2020
- Technical Committee, 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction (MLHMI 2020), Singapore, 20-22 March 2020
- Technical Committee, 6th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICCAI 2020), Tianjin, China, 23-26 April 2020
- Technical Committee, 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Control Technologies (AIACT 2020), Hangzhou, China, 24-26 April 2020
- Program Technical Committee, 2nd International Conference on Big Data Engineering (BDE 2020), Shanghai, China, 29-31 May 2020
- Technical Committee, 4th International Conference on Deep Learning Technologies (ICDLT 2020), Beijing, China, 10-12 July 2020
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (CLNLP 2020), Seoul, South Korea, 20-22 July 2020
- Technical Committee, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems and Engineering (ICAISE 2020), Cairo, Egypt, 7-9 August 2020
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Computational Intelligence (ISOCI 2020), Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020
- Technical Committee, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR 2020), Xiamen, China, 25-27 September 2020
- Technical Committee, 4th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI 2020), London, United Kingdom, 9-11 October 2020
- Technical Program Committee, International Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (AITC 2020), Beijing, China, 22-24 October 2020
- Technical Program Committee, 2nd High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence Conference (HPCCI 2020), Chengdu, China, 23-25 October 2020
- Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI 2020), Berlin, Germany, 18-20 November 2020
- Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (E&C 2020), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 12-13 December 2020
- Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEEN 2020), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 12-13 December 2020
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Control (AIRC 2020), Cairo, Egypt, 12-14 December 2020
2021
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (ICAIE 2021), Chengdu, China, 18-20 January 2021
- Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2021), 4-6 February 2021
- Program Committee, Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (NLPinAI 2021), 4-6 February 2021
- Technical Committee, 2nd International Conference on Control Theory and Applications (ICoCTA 2021), Guangzhou, China, 23-25 February 2021
- Technical Committee, 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Control Technologies (AIACT 2021), Shanghai, China, 26-28 March 2021
- Technical Committee, 5th International Conference on Robotics: Design and Applications (RDA 2021), Shanghai, China, 26-28 March 2021
- Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2021), Hong Kong, 21-23 April 2021
- Technical Committee, 7th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICCAI 2021), Tianjin, China, 23-26 April 2021
- Technical Committee, 3rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems and Engineering (ICAISE 2021), Beijing, China, 28-30 May 2021
- Technical Committee, International Workshop on Software Engineering and Applications (WSEA 2021), Chengdu, China, 28-31 May 2020
- Program Technical Committee, 3rd International Conference on Big Data Engineering (BDE 2021), Shanghai, China, 29-31 May 2021
- Program Committee, 12th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2021), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21-23 June 2021
- Organizing Committee, 3rd World Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Robotics-2021), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 24-26 June 2021
- Technical Committee, European Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ECCSIT 2021), Budapest, Hungary, 9-11 July 2021
- Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence (NLPAI 2021), Chengdu, China, 16-18 July 2021
- Technical Committee, 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS 2021), Tokyo, Japan, 16-18 July 2021
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (CLNLP 2021), Dalian, China, 23-25 July 2021
- Technical Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Algorithms (AI2A 2021), Singapore, 23-25 July 2021
- Technical Committee, 5th International Conference on Deep Learning Technologies (ICDLT 2021), Qingdao, China, 23-25 July 2021
- Technical Program Committee, International Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (AITC 2021), Beijing, China, 18-21 August 2021
- Technical Committee, 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robots (ICACR 2021), Nanning, China, 25-27 September 2021
- Scientific Committee, 2nd Symposium of Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Studies (SIAIS 2021), Atasehir, Istanbul, 2021 (TBA)