Selim Balcısoy

Prof. Dr. Selim Balcısoy graduated from ETH Zurich in Electronics Engineering in 1996. In 2001, he completed his PhD on "Analysis and Development of Interaction Techniques between Real and Virtual Worlds" in the field of Computer Science in EPFL Lausanne. He worked on mobile graphics as a senior research engineer at Nokia Research Center (USA) between 2001-2004. He has been working as a faculty member at Sabancı University since 2004. Dr. Balcısoy established the Behavioral Analytics and Visualization Laboratory (BAVLAB) jointly with MIT Media Lab in 2015. Two technopark companies were established within BAVLAB and more than ten industry supported research projects were successfully completed. Dr. Balcısoy's research areas are: Data Analytics, Visual Analytics, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Cultural Heritage and Mobile Graphics. He has publications in more than 80 international refereed journals and conferences, 2 IBM Research Awards, one TÜBİTAK Career Award and two US patent office patent.

My research interests are Augmented Reality, Visual Analytics and Behavioural Analytics. I am investigating human behaviors using large datasets and developing tools and interfaces for domain experts to assist their decision and sense making from those behaviors. I have worked on financial services, insurance, telecom, migration and Human Resources data sets and published intensively on data visualization and data science domains.