BIO
Mustafa Sert received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Gazi University, Turkey, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a research scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, while also holding the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Baskent University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of audio signal processing, machine learning, and semantic multimedia. In particular, his expertise includes deep learning, language-based audio analysis, speech processing, acoustic pattern recognition, audio-video content understanding, and multimodality.

Dr. Sert is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Baskent University. He has served as a member of the administrative board of the Distance Education Center (BUZEM) since 2011 and as a board member of the Faculty of Engineering since 2021. He previously served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Computer Engineering from 2008 to 2012, as a member of the Faculty Administrative Board from 2008 to 2021, and as a board member of Kazan Vocational School from 2018 to 2022, as well as Anadolu O.S.B. Vocational School from 2020 to 2021.

Dr. Sert actively contributes to the academic community by serving on the technical reviewing and organizing committees of several international conferences, including IEEE ICCE, IEEE ICME, VLDB, FUZZ-IEEE, ACM MM, IEEE ISM, and ACM MMM. He is also a reviewer for top-tier journals such as IEEE/ACM TASLP, IEEE SPL, Springer MTAP, Springer SIVP, IEEE TII, IEEE Access, IEEE TFS, IEEE TMM, and IEEE TPAMI.

Dr. Sert has received multiple recognitions for his contributions to academia, including two Outstanding Reviewer Awards from IEEE ICME (2020, 2021) and the Outstanding Area Chair Award from ACM Multimedia (2024). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is also a member of the Technical Communities on Computer Communications (TCCC), Multimedia Computing (TCMC), and Semantic Computing (TCSEM). Additionally, he has been selected for the technical committees of IEEE CTSoc’s Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS), Consumer Communications Networks and Connectivity (CCN), and Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI in Consumer Electronics (MDA).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • [2020- to date): Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [2015-to date): Member of the Faculty Board, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [2006-2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Member of the Faculty Administrative Board, Faculty of Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Vice Chairman, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [1998-2006]: Instructor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey
  • [Jun.1998-Sep.1998]: Database Administrator, Computer Center, Başkent University, Ankara, 06530 Turkey
  • [1997-1998]: Instructor, Technical Vocational School, Computer Division, Başkent University, Ankara, 06810 Turkey

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer of following journals
  - IEEE Signal Processing Letters (IEEE SPL), (2017 - to date)
  - IEEE Access, (2019 - to date)
  - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), (2016 - to date)
  - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII), (2019 - to date)
  - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (IEEE/ACM TASLP), (2015 - to date)
  - Springer's Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, (2015 - to date)
  - Springer's Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, (2010 - to date)
  - Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, TUBITAK (2015 - to date)
  - Gazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, (2013 - to date)
Organization committee member of following conferences
  - Demo co-chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (IEEE AI4I, 2018)
  - Workshop co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM, 2017-2018)
  - Workshop co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM, 2017)
  - Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC, 2017-2018)
- Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM, 2016)
  - Publicity co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC, 2016)
  - Local arrangements co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE, 2015)
  - Local arrangements co-chair, International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB, 2012)
  - National Symposium on Network and Information Security (ABGS, 2010)
PC member and reviewer of following conferences
  - IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) -  SIU 2013 to date
  - IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) - ISM 2008, ISM 2009
  - International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS) - FQAS 2009
  - International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) - ISCIS 2006
Session chair of the following conferences
  - IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM 2013, 2014)

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. (2001 - 2006), Computer Engineering, Gazi University, Ankara TURKEY.
    Under the supervision of Prof. Buyurman Baykal and Prof. Adnan Yazici in METU
  • M.Sc. (1999 - 2001), Computer Engineering, Gazi University, Ankara TURKEY
    Under the supervision of Prof. S. Gökhun Tanyer in Başkent University
  • B.Sc. (1997), Computer Engineering, Gazi University, Ankara TURKEY

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Outstanding reviewer award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME) in 2020, London, United Kingdom
  • Research project with grant number 109E014 has selected and published in "Success Stories Booklet" of TUBITAK Academic Research Funding Programs Directorate (ARDEB). In this booklet, 120 projects of approx. 10000 successfully completed projects are included on the basis of research groups (2015).
  • [Jun.1997-Aug.1997]: Oracle Traning Certificates - SQL, SQL *Plus, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 Reports, Developer 2000 Oracle Forms, Develop Apps. Using Database Procedures, ORACLE Database Administration and Backup and Recovery. Oracle Training Center/
  • Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.