BIO
Mustafa Sert received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Gazi University, Turkey, in 2001 and 2006, respectively.
He completed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Engineering at Başkent University.
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.
Dr. 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 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 (2018–2022) and Anadolu O.S.B. Vocational School (2020–2021).
Dr. Sert actively contributes to the academic community by serving on the technical program 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 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).
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
- [2025–to date]: Professor, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790, Turkey
- [2024-2025): Senior Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
- [2023- to date): Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2020- 2025): Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2015-to date): Member of the Faculty Board, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [2006-2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Member of the Faculty Administrative Board, Faculty of Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Aug.,2008-Feb.,2012]: Vice Chairman, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [1998-2006]: Instructor, Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [Jun.1998-Sep.1998]: Database Administrator, Computer Center, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
- [1997-1998]: Instructor, Technical Vocational School, Computer Division, Başkent University, Ankara, 06790 Turkey
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| Reviewer of following journals | |
| - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, (2023 - to date) | |
| - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (2022 - to date) | |
| - 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 | |
| - Area Chair, ACM Multimedia (2022-) | |
| - Workshop Co-Chair, PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE), (2022-) | |
| - 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 ISM (2013-), IEEE SIU (2016-), IEEE ICSC (2018-), IEEE INISTA (2021), IEEE AIKE (2023) 2014) | |
EDUCATION
- Postdoc (2025), University of California, Irvine, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Ph.D. (2006), Gazi University, Computer Science
- M.Sc. (2001), Gazi University, Computer Science
- B.Sc. (1997), Gazi University, Computer Science
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Best Paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AIxSE 2025)
- Outstanding Area Chair award in the ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia
- Outstanding reviewer award in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME) in 2021, Shenzhen, China
- Best Paper award in the 7th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 2021
- Outstanding Reviewer award in 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.