Mustafa Sert is a professor of
Computer Engineering
and
Artificial Intelligence Engineering.
His research and teaching interests include audio signal processing, machine learning, semantic multimedia, and software engineering.
In particular, his expertise covers deep learning, language-based audio analysis, speech processing, acoustic pattern recognition, audio–video content understanding, and multimodal learning
(research).
Mustafa Sert is the Vice Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering
at Başkent University.
He has served as a member of the administrative board of the Distance Education Center (BUZEM) since 2011 and as a member of the Faculty of Engineering board since 2021.
He previously served as the vice-chair of the
Department of Computer Engineering (2008–2012),
a member of the Faculty of Engineering administrative board (2008–2021),
and as a board member of the Kazan Vocational School (2018–2022) and the Anadolu O.S.B. Vocational School (2020–2021).
He serves on the technical program and organizing committees of several international conferences, including
IEEE ICCE (2022–), IEEE ICME (2019–), VLDB (2012), FUZZ-IEEE (2015–), ACM MM (2019–), IEEE ISM (2008–), and ACM MMM.
He is also a reviewer for leading 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 several recognitions for his academic contributions, including a
Best Paper Award at the 7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine (2021),
a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence × Software Engineering (AIxSE 2025),
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).
In addition, 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).
Latest News since 2020
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Sept. 2025
Our edited book Semantic Computing and AI: Transforming Knowledge into Intelligence has been published by World Scientific .
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Oct. 2025
We received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence × Software Engineering (AIxSE 2025).
- Nov. 2024
I received Outstanding Area Chair Award in the ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia - Nov. 2024
I received Outstanding Area Chair Award in the ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia - Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, 2024
I will be serving as Area Chair for the 32nd ACM Multimedia Conference 2024, Melbourne, Australia -
Oct. 1, 2024
I am with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. [msert [at] uci [dot] edu] - Feb. 3-5, 2025
I'm serving as Program Co-Chair of the IEEE AIxMM 2025, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Feb. 3-5, 2025
I'm serving as Program Co-Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2025, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Dec. 11-13, 2024
I'm serving as Program Co-Chair of the IEEE ISM 2024, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan - Dec. 11-13, 2024
I'm serving as Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE AIxDKE 2024, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan - Mar. 22, 2024
My students Ozan Dede, Huseyin Boran Kuscu, Safa Eren Surmeli, Erdem Veziroglu, and Eyup Can Yonter received TUBITAK 2209-A research project support. Congratulations! - Feb. 5-7, 2024
I will be serving as Publicity Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2024, Laguna Hills, California, USA - November 2024
My students Yesim Akar, Taner Gulez, Yagmur Sahin, and Mehmet Cagdas Saygili have successfully completed their master's degrees. Congratulations! - Dec. 11-13, 2023
I will be serving as Program Co-Chair of the IEEE ISM 2023, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Oct. 2023
Selected as the IEEE CTSoc MDA TC Board member - Sep. 2023
Selected as the IEEE CTSoc AVS TC Board member - Sep. 25-27, 2023
We are organizing IEEE AIKE 2023, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Apr. 19, 2023
My students Zeynep Karkiner, Begum Yaman, Begum Zengin, and Feride Nursena Cavli received TUBITAK 2209-A research project support. Congratulations! - Jan. 6-8, 2023
We are organizing NarSUM@ACM MM 2023, Ottawa, Canada - Feb. 1-3, 2023
I will be serving as Publicity Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2023, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Jan. 18, 2023
My students Elifnur Benhur, Melek Imgeus Tanyeri, and Mehmet Ceylan received TUBITAK 2209-A research project support. Congratulations! - Jan. 6-8, 2023
I will be serving as Workshop Co-chair of the IEEE ICCE 2023, Las Vegas Convention Center(LVCC), NV, USA - Jan. 5, 2023
My student, Aysegul Eren Ozkaya, has successfully attained her PhD degree. Congratulations! - Oct. 2022
Selected as the IEEE CTSoc CCN TC Board member - Dec. 5-7, 2022
I will be serving as Program Co-chair of the IEEE ISM 2022, Naples, ITALY - Sep. 19-21, 2022
I will be serving as Publicity Co-chair of the IEEE AIKE 2022, Laguna Hills, California, USA - Oct. 10-14, 2022
I will be serving as Area Chair for the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2022), Lisbon, Portugal - Aug. 29- Sep. 2, 2022
I will be serving as PC member of the 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022), Belgrade, Serbia - Jul. 18-23, 2022
I will be serving as PC member of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022 IEEE), Padua, Italy - Jan. 26-28, 2022
I will be serving as Publicity Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2022 (Onsite and Virtual) - Nov.29-Dec.2, 2021
I will be serving as Program Chair of the IEEE ISM 2021 (Virtual) - Nov. 29, 2021
Our paper "Early detection of respiratory diseases caused by COVID-19 and integration into tele-health service via speech, voice and cough analysis software" received best paper award in the 7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 2021 - Oct. 20-24, 2021
I will be serving as Area Chair for the ACM MM 2021 (Onsite and Virtual) - July 5-9, 2021
I received Outstanding Reviewer Award in IEEE ICME 2021, Shenzhen, China - March 1 - July 1, 2021
We attended to the DCASE2021 Challenge - Jan. 27-29, 2021
I will be serving as Publicity Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2021 (Onsite and Virtual) - Dec 31, 2020
We successfully completed TUBITAK EEEAG project entitled "Early Detection of Respiratory Diseases Related to Covid-19 with Speech and Cough Analysis Software and Integration to Telehealth Service" - Dec.2-4, 2020
I will be serving as Workshop Chair of the IEEE ISM 2020 (Virtual) - Oct. 12-16, 2020
I will be serving as PC member of the ACM MM 2020, Seattle, United States - July 6-10, 2020
I received Outstanding Reviewer Award in IEEE ICME 2020, London, UK - February 3-5, 2020
I will be serving as Publicity Chair of the IEEE ICSC 2020, San Diego, California
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