Deniz Iren; PhD, PMP
Associate Professor of Affective Computing
Information Science, Open Universiteit, Netherlands
I am a scientist, manager, teacher, entrepreneur, and software developer with 20+ years of experience in industry-academia collaboration settings. I hold a tenured faculty position as associate professor at the Department of Information Science. My research passion is to develop computational systems that perceive and respond to human emotions. These keywords describe my research areas: affective computing, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. Since 2020, my efforts have contributed to the acquisition of €9.2 million in research funding, including €4.7 million for projects under my leadership. I teach machine learning and data science courses, both at the faculty and as a part of postgraduate programs. Outside my work, I am a competitive adventure race athlete and an ultramarathon runner. Well, there is a whole lot to tell about myself. Here are some links that might help.
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On my ResearchGate profile you can find about my research activities and my publications. |
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In this YouTube channel, I share videos about data analytics and machine learning. |
 | The blog of my adventure race team; Rock Lizards invites you to explore the frontiers of your body and mind. |
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I invite you to visit my photoblog and see the world through my lens. |
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| email: | deniz.iren@ou.nl |
| Skype: | deniz.iren |
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News
- 22.11.2024: Augmented Reality Tutor - ART is awarded the Education Product of the Year Prize by the Open Universiteit. Here is a LinkedIn Post by Open Universiteit (in Dutch), my LinkedIn Post about the award, and the website of ART.
- 22.11.2024: As a part of the Education Day of the Open Universiteit, I gave a hands-on workshop about how to use the Augmented Reality Tutor -ART for teachers. In the workshop, the participants experienced creating a course, uploading course material, and configuring ART to support their students in their courses. Here is the LinkedIn Post about it.
- 18:11:2024: Our Erasmus+ KA220-HED project proposal entitled Innovative Training for International Software Quality Standards (IT-ISQS) is accepted by Turkish National Agency. The project aims to understanding of international software quality standards. I have a role in the project to explore how LLMs can be tailored to software quality education. The project budget is €250,000. Here is the LinkedIn Post about it.
- 01.11.2024: Our Horizon 2020 proposal "EYE-Teach" is accepted. In this project, we will combine AI and eye tracking to explore children's reading comprehension processes, and in turn help teachers teach reading. The project budget is €3,000,000 and duration is 36 months. Here are the CORDIS project page, a blog post (in Dutch) and a LinkedIn post (in Dutch) about the project.
- 28.10.2024: My NWO Open Competition XS proposal is accepted. The project will explore how to trigger biofeedback mechanisms using deepfakes. We will focus on diagnosing and treating facial palsy, enabling blended-care. The project budget is €50,000. Here are a few related links: The list of all 28 accepted proposals in this round. | My LinkedIn post about the project. | My department's blog post (in Dutch).
- 25.10.2024: Our PhD-candidate Krist Shingjergji won the best poster award at Alice&Eve workshop for celebrating women in computing. Here is the link to the poster.
- 17.10.2024: I presented ART and other research valorization projects at the Open Day of Brightlands Smart Services Campus. Here is a short report of the day.
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16.10.2024: Assigned as associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Affective Computing.
- 11.10.2024: I organized a workshop on AI Assistants as a part of the AI in Education conference and Prof. Dr. Roland Klemke's Inaugural Festivities.
- 06.10.2024: The exhibition of ART as a part of the Weekend of Science at the Discovery Museum. Users from 4 to 65 ages interacted with ART. Here are my observations.
- 17.09.2024: We presented our research paper Unilateral Facial Action Unit Detection: Revealing Nuanced Facial Expressions at ACII2024 in Glasgow Here is the preprint.
- 16.09.2024: Panel discussion on affective computing between regulations and innovation took place at ACII2024. Here is my post about it.
- 15.09.2024: Andreas and I gave a tutorial about the Impact of the AI Act on Affective Computing as a part of the ACII2024 in Glasgow.