Yearly Archives: 2025

Modeling Humans: Adaptive Control, Neural Networks, and Cyber-Physical Human Systems

Associate Professor Yıldıray Yıldız Bilkent University   Date/Time: Thursday, 15 May 2025, 16:30 Place: SC106 Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room Understanding and modeling human behavior is key to building smarter, safer, and more intuitive Cyber-Physical Human Systems. In this talk, I will present adaptive control strategies for modeling human pilots and drivers, with […]

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Visibility Graphs in Natural Language Processing

Happy to share our latest paper titled “Emotion Classification with Visibility Graphs” published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters! Our novel approach introduces a visibility graph-based sequential modeling to encapsulate global relationships within texts beyond the reach of fixed context windows of transformers. Being a modular graph-based extension to any transformer-based model, our proposed approach enhances […]

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UMRAM/NSC-ASBAM Spring 2025 Seminars: “Cognitive Brain Imaging in the Age of AI”

Dr. Bertrand Thirion  University of Paris Saclay   Date/Time: Thursday, 10 April 2025, 16:30 Place: SC106 Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room TBrain imaging helps us to understand how the brain works, as well as psychiatric and neurological pathologies. The development of non-invasive imaging, notably MRI, and the creation of large databases over the […]

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UMRAM/NSC-ASBAM Spring 2025 Seminars: “Neuroanatomical Networks of the Aversive Signaling Hub and the Potential Treatment of Insomnia by Modulating the Adenosine System.”

Dr. Mustafa Korkutata  Harvard University   Date/Time: Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 16:30 Place: SC106 Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room The parabrachial nucleus (PB), located in the dorsolateral pons, relays sensory information (visceral malaise, taste, temperature, pain, itch) to forebrain structures including the thalamus, hypothalamus, and extended amygdala. Within the external lateral subnucleus of […]

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Sememe Based Semantic Communications

Happy to share our latest paper titled “Sememe Based Semantic Communications” published in IEEE Communications Letters! We introduced a concept in linguistics called sememes to the domain of semantic communications. Sememes are the smallest and indivisible semantic units of word meaning. A predefined set of sememes is theoretically considered “the periodic table” of meaning in […]

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