Prof.Dr. Adnan YAZICI received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of EECS, Tulane University, LA, USA, in 1991.  He has been a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.  He has published over 200 international technical papers and co-authored/edited three books entitled Fuzzy Database Modeling (Springer), Fuzzy Logic in its 50th Year: New Developments, Directions and Challenges (Springer), and Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing: A Decision Support Perspective (Springer). His current research interests include data science, multimedia databases and information retrieval, wireless multimedia sensor networks, and fuzzy database modeling. He was a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award in 2011 and the Parlar Foundation’s Young Investigator Award in 2001. He was the Conference Co-Chair of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering in 2007, the 38th Very Large Data Bases in 2012, and the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems in 2015. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and a member of ACM, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee.

1987 - 1991

Doctorate

Tulane University, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science, United States Of America

1978 - 1982

Undergraduate

Istanbul Technical University, Maden Fakültesi, Petrol Ve Doğalgaz Mühendisliği Bölümü, Turkey

1991

Doctorate

Integrating Advanced Data Models for Large Knowledge-Based Applications

Tulane University, Engineering, Computer Science

C1 Advanced

English

A2 Elementary

Russian

1999 - Continues

Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Computer Engineering

1993 - 1999

Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Computer Engineering

1991 - 1993

Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Computer Engineering

2010 - Continues

Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering

2021

Postgraduate

Multi-Stream Orientation and Position based Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton Based Activity Recognition

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

C.Tangirbergenov(Student)

2020

Doctorate

Multilevel object tracking on big graph data using interval type-2 fuzzy systems in wireless multimedia sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

C.Küçükkeçeci(Student)

2019

Postgraduate

Fuzzified semantic WEB reasoning for activity detection in WMSN applications

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.NAİL(Student)

2019

Postgraduate

BB-PLUS: an efficient approach for subgraph isomorphism problem in big graph databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.Taşkomaz(Student)

2018

Doctorate

Indexing both content and concept for high-dimensional multimedia data

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ARSLAN(Student)

2018

Doctorate

An intelligent fuzzy clustering approach for energy-efficient data aggregation in wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ALPER(Student)

2017

Doctorate

A lightweight wireless multimedia sensor network architecture with object detection and classification capability

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.CİVELEK(Student)

2017

Doctorate

A Lightweight wireless multimedia sensor network architecture with object detection and classification capabilities

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.Civelek(Student)

2016

Postgraduate

BB-Graph: A new subgraph isomorphism algorithm for querying big graph databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.ASİLER(Student)

2016

Doctorate

An adaptive, energy-aware and distributed fault-tolerant topology-control algorithm for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

F.DENİZ(Student)

2015

Postgraduate

Database security in private database clouds

BAYKAL N. (Co-Consultant), YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant)

O.ÇINAR(Student)

2014

Postgraduate

An efficient fuzzy fusion-based framework for surveillance applications in wireless multimedia sensor networks

COŞAR A. (Co-Consultant), YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant)

S.ALPER(Student)

2014

Doctorate

Fusion of multimodal information for multimedia information retrieval

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

T.YILMAZ(Student)

2014

Postgraduate

Doküman kategorizasyonu ve imza bölge analizi

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

İ.CÜCELOĞLU(Student)

2013

Doctorate

Design and implementation of a novel visual analysis system for image clasiffication

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ü.Lütfü(Student)

2013

Postgraduate

Frequency-driven late fusion-based word decomposition approach on the phrase-based statistical machine translation systems

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.TATLICIOĞLU(Student)

2013

Postgraduate

Integration of multimodal multimedia database system architecture with query level fusion

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.SATTARI(Student)

2013

Doctorate

Design and implementation of a novel visual analysis system for image classification

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ü.LÜTFÜ(Student)

2013

Postgraduate

Describing the software architecture of a multimedia data management system

YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant), OĞUZTÜZÜN M. H. S. (Co-Consultant)

Ç.AVCI(Student)

2013

Doctorate

Fault-tolerant topology control in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.BAĞCI(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

FMDBMS-a fuzzy MPEG-7 database management system

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

N.İLKER(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

Fusing semantic information extracted from visual, auditory and textual data of videos

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.GÜLEN(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

Turkish large vocabulary continuous speech recognition by using limited audio corpus

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.SUSMAN(Student)

2012

Doctorate

An energy-efficient and reactive remote surveillance framework using wireless multimedia sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.ÖZTARAK(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

Algorithms for the weapon - target allocation problem

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.TURAN(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

Semantic classification and retrieval system for environmental sounds

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ç.OKUYUCU(Student)

2012

Postgraduate

Expert finding in domains with unclear topics

TAŞKAYA TEMİZEL T. (Co-Consultant), YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant)

G.HÜLYA(Student)

2011

Doctorate

Rule-based in-network processing for event-driven applications in wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ö.ŞANLI(Student)

2011

Postgraduate

Semi-automatic semantic video annotation tool

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.AYDINLILAR(Student)

2011

Postgraduate

Named entity recognition in Turkish with Bayesian learning and hybrid approaches

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.REHA(Student)

2011

Doctorate

Exploiting information extraction techniques for automatic semantic annotation and retrieval of news videos in Turkish

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.KÜÇÜK(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

Static range assignment in wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.UZUN(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

A web based GIS mashup for archaeology

YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant), COŞAR A. (Co-Consultant)

B.ÖZTÜRK(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

Fuzzy unequal clustering in wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.BAĞCI(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

Pattern extraction by using both spatial and temporal features on Turkish meteorological data

KARAGÖZ P. (Co-Consultant), YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant)

I.GOLER(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

Integration of fuzzy object-oriented multimedia database components

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

U.DEMİR(Student)

2010

Doctorate

Design and implementation of spatiotemporal databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.SÖZER(Student)

2010

Postgraduate

Implementation of X-tree with 3D spatial index and fuzzy secondary index

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.KESKİN(Student)

2009

Postgraduate

Content-based audio management and retrieval system for news broadcasts

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.DOĞAN(Student)

2009

Doctorate

Automatic semantic content extraction in videos using a spatio-temporal ontology model

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Y.YILDIRIM(Student)

2009

Postgraduate

Fuzzy decision fusion for single target classification in wireless sensor networks

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.GÖK(Student)

2008

Postgraduate

Efficient index structures for video databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.AÇAR(Student)

2008

Postgraduate

Object extraction from images/videos using a genetic algorithm based approach

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

T.YILMAZ(Student)

2008

Doctorate

Coupling speech recognition and rule-based machine translation

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.KÖPRÜ(Student)

2008

Postgraduate

Fuzzy association rule mining from spatio-temporal data: An analysis of meteorological data in Turkey

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ÜNAL(Student)

2008

Doctorate

Development of a decision support system for performance-based landfill design

Yazıcı A. (Co-Consultant), Ünlü K.

B.ÇELİK(Student)

2007

Postgraduate

A constraint based real-time license plate recognition system

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.GÖKAY(Student)

2007

Postgraduate

An intelligent fuzzy object-oriented database framework for video database applications

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

N.BURCU(Student)

2006

Postgraduate

Veri ambarı ve OLAP teknolojilerinden yararlanılarak karar destek amaçlı raporlama aracı gerçekleştirimi

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.DÜZGÜNOĞLU(Student)

2006

Doctorate

Web sayfaları için anlamsal erişim sistemi

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.SEZER(Student)

2005

Postgraduate

Fuzzy spatial data cube construction and its use in association rule mining

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

N.IŞIK(Student)

2005

Postgraduate

Structural and event based multimodal video data modeling

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.ÖZTARAK(Student)

2005

Doctorate

A fuzzy petri net model for intelligent databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

B.BOSTAN(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

An XML based content-based image retrieval system with MPEG-7 descriptors

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ARSLAN(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

Fuzzy querying in XML databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.ÜSTÜNKAYA(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

Semantik video modeling and retrieval with visual, auditory, textual sources

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

N.Durak(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

An XML based content-based image retrieval system with MPRG-7 descriptors

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.Arslan(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

Semantic video modeling and retrieval with visual, auditory, textual sources

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

N.DURAK(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

A new technique: Replace algorithm to retrieve a version from a repository instead of delta application

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ONUR(Student)

2004

Postgraduate

Fuzzy querying im XML databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

E.Üstünkaya(Student)

2003

Postgraduate

An indexing technique for similarity-based fuzzy object-oriented data model (food index)

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ç.İNCE(Student)

2002

Postgraduate

A Video database management system based on MPEG-7 standard

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ö.YAVUZ(Student)

2002

Postgraduate

A video database management system based on MPEG-7 standard.

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ö.Yavuz(Student)

2002

Postgraduate

Fuzzy functional dependency and fuzzy normal forms in fuzzy relational databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

Ö.BAHAR(Student)

2001

Postgraduate

Implementation of index structures for fuzzy spatial querying

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.SÖZER(Student)

2001

Postgraduate

Spatio-temporal querying in video databases

ÇİÇEKLİ F. N. (Co-Consultant), YAZICI A. (Co-Consultant)

M.KÖPRÜLÜ(Student)

2001

Doctorate

An Intelligent fuzzy object-oriented database system

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.KOYUNCU(Student)

1999

Postgraduate

Uncertainity management in spatial dtabase applications

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

K.AKKAYA(Student)

1999

Postgraduate

Uncertanity management in spatial database application

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

K.Akkaya(Student)

1998

Postgraduate

Design and implementation of multimedia database applications

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

R.SAVAŞ(Student)

1998

Postgraduate

Implementation of the extended complex values for uncertain data.

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.SOYSAL(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Fuzzy functional and fuzzy multivalued dependencies in fuzzy relational databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.İlker(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Computerised aircraft maintenance management system

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.Şenol(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Fuzzy Functional and fuzzy multivalued dependencies fuzzy relational databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.İLKER(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Computerized aircraft maintenance management

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.ŞENOL(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

An implementation of fuzzy control algorithms for controlling the crane arm of multi-barreled rocket launcher ammunition transport vehicles

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.Bostan(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

An Implementation of fuzzy control algorithms for controlling the crane arm of multi barraled rocket louncher ammunition transport vehicles

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.BOSTAN(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Ensuring multilevel database security using fuzzy logic

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.KÖKSAL(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

A Formal conceptual approach for fuzzy object-oriented database design

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

A.ÇINAR(Student)

1997

Postgraduate

Modeling uncertainity in a deductive object-oriented database

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

B.BOSTAN(Student)

1996

Postgraduate

Fuzzy indexing with multi level grid file

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.CİBİCELİ(Student)

1995

Postgraduate

Extended relational database management systems for document retrieval

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.ARIKAN(Student)

1995

Postgraduate

Fuzzy object-oriented database modelling incorporated with logic

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.KOYUNCU(Student)

1995

Postgraduate

Fuzzy object-oriented database modeling incorporated with logic

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.Koyuncu(Student)

1995

Postgraduate

Data model for the representation of complex and uncertain information

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

O.MERDAN(Student)

1995

Postgraduate

Data models for the representation of complex and uncertain information

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

O.Merdan(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Computer-based automation of the material requirements planning (MRP)

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

H.ERYÜKSEL(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Fuzzy object modelling inobject-oriented environment

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.AKSOY(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Study of transitive closure algorithms in deductive databases

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

L.YAVUZ(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Study of transitive closure algorithms in deductive database

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

L.Yavuz(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Handling fuzzy complex objects in knowledge-based systems

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

M.TURHAN(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Design and analysis of lot sizing techniques for an MRP system

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.Zencirci(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Design and analysis of lot sizing techniques for an mrp systems

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

S.ZENCİRCİ(Student)

1994

Postgraduate

Fuzzy object modeling in object-oriented environment

YAZICI A. (Consultant)

D.Aksoy(Student)

2022

Kucukbay S. E. , YAZICI A., KALKAN S.

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, vol.81, no.21, pp.30911-30930, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)

2022

Kizilkaya B., Ever E., Yatbaz H. Y. , Yazici A.

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, vol.18, no.2, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)

2022

ASİLER M., YAZICI A., George R.

JOURNAL OF BIG DATA, vol.9, no.1, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)

2022

Keskin S., YAZICI A.

ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION, vol.11, no.3, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)

2021

Keskin S., YAZICI A.

14th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS), Bratislava, Slovakia, 19 - 24 September 2021, vol.12871, pp.109-126

2019

Sert S. A. , YAZICI A.

2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ 2019, Louisiana, United States Of America, 23 - 26 June 2019, vol.2019-June

2017

Sert S. A. , YAZICI A., Cosar A.

25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Antalya, Turkey, 15 - 18 May 2017

2011

Goler I., KARAGÖZ P., YAZICI A.

26th Annual International Symposium on Computer and Information Science, ISCIS 2011, London, England, 26 - 28 September 2011, pp.505-510

2017 - Continues

IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems

Assistant Editor

Total Citations (WOS): 1098

h-index (WOS): 16