Dr. Tayfun Alpay

Interests

• Recurrent Neural Networks
• Conditional Computation
• Natural Language Processing
• Data Visualization

Social

• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate

Teaching

Courses:

Please see my courses on the right/below.

Thesis supervision:

Be aware that I'm only taking on new students until Summer 2020.

Previously supervised theses:

* Using the Reformer for Efficient Summarization (BSc Thesis)
* Multimodal Integration for Empathy Recognition (MSc Thesis)
* Speed-Reading the Input of an Audio-Visual Speech Recognizer (MSc Thesis)
* On the Influence of Document Length for Sentiment Analysis (Bsc Thesis)
* Evaluation of Prefix Constraints and Their Impact on Related and Unrelated Language Pairs (BSc Thesis)
* Towards Personalized Reading Suggestions in a Newspaper App (BSc Thesis)
* Using Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Restaurant Reviews (BSc Thesis)
* Approximate Bayesian Inference in Recurrent Neural Networks (MSc Thesis)
* Attention-based Image Captioning with Recurrent Neural Networks  (BSc Thesis)
* Question Answering using Recurrent Neural Networks with Attention Mechanism (BSc Thesis)
* Vector Representation of Chat Dialogs for Text Classification (BSc Thesis)

Activities

• Member of study commission (2017-2019)
• Member of department council (2018-2020)
• Member of examination board for Intelligent Adaptive Systems (2019-2020)
• Reviewing: ICRA 2019, IROS 2019/20, ICANN 2017/18, ESANN 2018, ICDL-EPIROB 2018/20, SACJ, Artificial Intelligence Review

Awards

• Best paper award at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2018) for our contribution "Towards End-To-End Raw Audio Music Synthesis"
• Best paper award (runner up) at the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction for our contribution "Exploring Human-Robot Trust Through the Investment Game: An Immersive Space Mission Scenario"

Short Curriculum Vitae