Deniz Iren; PhD, PMP
Assistant Professor
Information Sciences, OU
I am an assistant professor at the Center for Actionable Research of the Open Universiteit (CAROU). My research topics are; human-computation, emotion analytics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing (NLP).
Currently, I am working on several projects:
- Digipro: An energy-efficient smart-house system empowered by IoT, digital twins, and AI.
- Empathic Business Intelligence (EBI): Multimodal emotion recognition algorithms that detect patterns of emotions on business artefacts as a new source of business intelligence source.
- Social Media Complaint Analytics: Process Mining for analyzing complaints on social media that takes the form of highly-complex multi-party conversation.
- Steel Microstructure Segmentation: End-to-end automation of the detection and segmentation of steel microstructures on microscopy images.
I teach both at the faculty and in certification programs specifically designed for companies. The courses I give are; data analytics, business analytics, machine learning, text analytics, social network analysis, business intelligence, and crowdsourcing.
In addition to my academic career, I am an amateur adventure race athlete and a photography enthusiast. Well, there is a whole lot to tell about myself. Thus, you better check the links below to get to know me.
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