Zeynep Akata

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Zeynep Akata
Alma mater INRIA Grenoble-Rhônes-Alpes (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions Technical University of Munich
Thesis Contributions to large-scale learning for image classification  (2014)
Doctoral advisor Cordelia Schmid
Website www.eml-munich.de/people/zeynep-akata

Zeynep Akata is a Liesel Beckmann Distinguished professor of computer science at the Technical University of Munich [1] where she leads the Interpretable and Reliable Machine Learning chair. Akata is also the director of the Helmholtz Institute for Explainable Machine Learning.

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Education and career

Akata received her undergraduate degree in Trakya University [2] in Turkey, her MSc from RWTH Aachen and Ph.D. in computer science at the INRIA Grenoble-Rhônes-Alpes. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with Bernt Schiele and at University of California, Berkeley with Trevor Darrell. Akata was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam from 2017 to 2019 and she was a full professor at the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen between 2019 and 2023. While in Tübingen, Akata was also a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen. [3]

Research

Akata's research interests focus on Explainable Multimodal Machine Learning which is in the intersection between Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. [4] [5]

Selected awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ "School of CIT, Department of Computer Science" . Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Mühendislik Fakültesi TC Trakya Üniversitesi".
  3. ↑ "Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems - Zeynep Akata" . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Website Zeynep Akata" . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "Blog news article". 6 December 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "Alfried Krupp Prize press release" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "ECVA Young Researcher Awards Award" . Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Award winners German Pattern Recognition Award" . Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "ERC Grants 2019" (PDF). Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  10. ↑ "News ERC Grant awarded to Zeynep Akata". Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  11. ↑ "Young Scientist Honour from the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation". 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  12. ↑ "Lise-Meitner Award" . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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