Seminars
Enhancing Efficiency in Large-Scale Search: From Traditional to Neural Retrieval Systems
PhD Thesis📅 23.02.2026 — 13:30 👤 Speaker: ERMAN YAFAY 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.ISMAIL SENGOR ALTINGOVDE 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Efficient retrieval of relevant documents from massive collections remains an essential challenge in Information Retrieval (IR). Modern search engines face immense…Advancing Dialogue Systems with Temporal Contextual Topic Forecasting and Controlled Response Retrieval
PhD Thesis📅 23.02.2026 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: EMRE KULAH 🎓 Supervisor(s): ASSOC.PROF.DR.HANDE ALEMDAR 📍 Location: A101 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Dialogue systems powered by large language models (LLMs) show strong generative abilities but often struggle with informal language, long-term coherence, and grounded responses in…FROM SYNTHETIC MEDIUM TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATION: FINE-TUNING A MEDICAL LLM FOR DDX
MSc Thesis📅 23.01.2026 — 10:00 👤 Speaker: EZGI CAVAS 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.NIHAN KESIM CICEKLI, DR.AYSENUR BIRTURK 📍 Location: A101 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: Access to large-scale, annotated EHR is limited by privacy rules. This creates a major setback for training strong clinical NLP models. Synthetic data provides a…GRAPH-BASED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FROM LARGE-SCALE BIOMEDICAL NETWORKS
PhD Thesis📅 22.01.2026 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: GOKHAN OZSARI 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.HALIT OGUZTUZUN,PROF.DR.M.VOLKAN ATALAY 📍 Location: A101 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention in drug discovery due to their ability to model graph-structured biological and chemical data,…SEMANTIC MATCHING FOR REVIEWER ASSIGNMENT: AN ABLATION STUDY OF DENSE RETRIEVAL AND LLM REASONING
MSc Thesis📅 22.01.2026 — 10:00 👤 Speaker: IREM DERELI 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.NIHAN KESIM CICEKLI 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: Assigning suitable academic reviewers to research projects is a complex task that requires understanding both the semantic content of project descriptions and the diverse research…Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation via Decomposional Reasoning and Active Learning
MSc Thesis📅 13.01.2026 — 14:00 👤 Speaker: AHMET KAGAN KAYA 🎓 Supervisor(s): ASSOC.PROF.DR.R.GOKBERK CINBIS 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 90 min. 📝 Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive domains is currently challenged by two critical bottlenecks: the computational cost of inference and…Real-Time Global Illumination with Deep Radiance Reconstruction under Camera and Object Motion
PhD Thesis📅 13.01.2026 — 11:00 👤 Speaker: GULCE BAL 🎓 Supervisor(s): PROF.DR.AHMET OGUZ AKYUZ 📍 Location: A105 ⏲ Duration: 120 min. 📝 Abstract: Real-time global illumination is challenging due to the high computational cost of simulating complex light transport. Existing learning-based methods relying on precomputed radiance…Machine Learning Solutions for High Dynamic Range Content Creation and Perceptual Image Quality Evaluation
Seminar📅 24.12.2025 — 13:00 👤 Speaker: Dr. Uğur Çoğalan 📍 Location: BMB5 ⏲ Duration: 60 min. 📝 Abstract: Conventional imaging sensors often struggle to capture the full dynamic range of real-world scenes, leading to a loss of detail in shadows and highlights. This talk presents a holistic approach to overcoming these limitations by…