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Prof. dr. Pinar Yolum Birbil

Minnaertgebouw
Leuvenlaan 4
Kamer 3.07
3584 CE Utrecht

Prof. dr. Pinar Yolum Birbil

Professor
Responsible AI
p.yolum@uu.nl

News:

  • Last few days to submit to the IEEE Internet Computing “Humans meet AI” special issue. The call is
  • “Will AI decrease the number of junior software developers?” I was quoted in the following Volkskrant article (21/3/2025).
  • I recently gave a talk on “Fostering Trust in Hybrid Intelligence Collaborations” as part of the (13/3/2025). The recording is
  • The ̨ news article over my inaugural lecture is out! And here is the (almost) full text. (1/3/2025)
  • We are looking for a Postdoc to join our team in Hybrid Intelligence Project (28/4/2024). The call is here.
  • We finished teaching the first iteration of the Global Justice Investigations Lab (17/4/2024). Some student impressions and pictures from LinkedIn are and .
  • We are running a and at 2024. (1/3/2024).
  • Davide Dell'Anna started as an assistant professor and Anastasia Akkuzu as a PhD student the Responsible AI group (1/2/2024).
  • defended his PhD, titled "Privacy in Collaborative Systems" (7/12/2022). Short ̨ news item is here.  Photos coming soon!
  • I gave a talk on "Situation-Based Privacy Decisions" in Unversity of Groningen (19/10/2022).
  • I gave the introduction talk about our AI Masters's program during the Open Days (12/10/2022). The next one is on 10/02/2023.
  • I am giving a lecture on AI for Privacy as part of the . (6/2022)
  • We are holding the second on "HI/ESDiT collaboration on AI, human values and the law" in . (5/2022)
  • We received Utrecht Education Incentive Fund for our project on . The project will run for three years. (5/2022)
  • We will present our work (w/ ) on making privacy decisions based on situations in IJCAI-ECAI 2022. Check out the page. (5/2022)
  • We are looking for a postdoc to work on the science of Hybrid Intelligence. Details here! (Close date: 21/2/2022)
  • We received Seed Funding from Transforming Cities - Pathways to Sustainability for our project "Using Multi-Agent Systems for Simulating Online Social Network Influence on Urban Planning". Joint work with Dr. Yanliu Lin.  We are looking for two motivated MS students! (10/2021)
  • We are doing a symposium (w/ Sven Nyholm, Cindy Friendman, Bart Verheij, Matthew Dennis) titled "HI/ESDiT collaboration on AI, human values and the law" in (10/2021)
  • Our work (w/ Onuralp Ulusoy) on learning to bid for preserving privacy will appear in ACM TOIT. Find it here: (9/2021)
  • I gave a talk on AI and Privacy as part of the Knowledge-Intensive AI in  
  • Our work (w/ Can Kurtan) on using agents to recommend privacy settings for images in online social networks will appear in JAAMAS April issue. Find it here: (1/2021)
  • Our work (w/ ) on the use of trust to manage privacy is published in IEEE Internet Computing's November/December 2020 issue. Check it out here: (12/2020)
  • I am co-chairing the IJCAI 2021 Demo Track with Maria Keet. The Please consider submitting (12/2020)
  • Onuralp Ulusoy is presenting our work on "Norm-based Access Control" in (SACMAT) 2020 (6/2020)
  • Frank Dignum and I are hiring a new PhD student to work on computational theory of mind and privacy as part of the .  You can apply here.
  • We are organizing a .  Please consider submitting (1/2020)
  • We are editing a special issue of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology on Human-Centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things.  TOIT-CfP-Human-Centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things.pdf.  Submissions are due 30 June, 2020. (1/2020)
  • My piece on the relation between Newspaper (in Turkish) (12/2019)
  • I started serving on the Informatics Advisory Board of (12/2019)
  • I gave a lecture on Agent-Based Privacy Management at (7/6/2019) (Slides here)
  • I served on the Review Panel for (2/2019)
  • I am one of the panelists in (12/2018)
  • I gave a (30/11/2018)
  • I spoke at the (25/10/2018)
  • I gave a talk on collaborative privacy management in (15/7/2018)

 

Awards:

  • Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Microsoft Turkey and KAGIDER, 2017
  • Recipient of TUBITAK 2219 Scholarship for Research Visit (Sabbatical Cornell University)
  • Best Instructor of Department of Computer Engineering Award, 2015.
  • Bogazici University Academic Encouragement Award (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
  • Best paper award: Ilker Yildim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, Lale Akarun, Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach, Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW), LNAI 5881, pp.213-229, 2009.
  • Finalist for Best PC, AAMAS 2009
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