Served as:
Independent Expert and Vice Chair for evaluating EU Project proposals in FP7 and H2020 Programmes (ICT, FET)
Member of Advisory Board for project evaluations at Health Institutes of Türkiye (TÜSEB)
Project Evaluator for the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TÜBİTAK EEAG, BİDEB, ARDEB and TEYDEB)
Reviewer for Research and Development Centers (Ministry of Industry and Technology of Türkiye)
Reviewer for the following journals:
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
IEEE Pervasive Computing
IEEE Access
IET Image Processing
IET Biometrics
IET Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Image and Vision Computing
Signal Processing: Image Communication
Signal Processing
Signal, Image and Video Processing
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Machine Learning
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Electronics Letters
Reviewer/Technical Committee member for the following conferences:
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Int. Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security
3DTV Conference
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
European COST Action 2102, SSPnet, Int. Conf. on Cross Modal Analysis on Verbal Comm.
IEEE Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU)
TÜBİTAK Horizon 2020 Above-Threshold-Award for the CoMove Project submitted to the call H2020-ICT-2019-2 (researcher).
The supervised engineering project group won the second prize (in İstanbul region) in the “2242 Priority Areas University Students Project Competition” organized by the Scientific and Technological Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) with their project entitled “Fully Autonomous Supermarket”. This project was also a finalist in the IEEE Turkey Section Graduation Projects Competition, 2019.
The supervised engineering project group won the first prize (in İstanbul region) in the “2242 Priority Areas University Students Project Competition” organized by The Scientific and Technological Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) with their project entitled “Face-Fill System”, 2018.
¨Project Performance Award for the completed TÜBİTAK-1001 project entitled “Spontaneous Affect Recognition from Speech and Facial Expressions for Human-Computer Interaction”, EEAG-110E056.
Best Paper Award, EUSIPCO'2000 (European Signal Processing Conference).
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK–BAYG), Ph.D. research scholarship, 1999–2002.
Best research presentation award, Bilkent University, 1997.
Bilkent University Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, M.S. Program, 1995–1997.
Bilkent University Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, B.S. Program, 1991–1995.