Alper Demir
About Me
I am currently an Assistant Professor at İzmir University of Economics. I worked a post doctoral researcher in the Autonomous Agents Research Group at the University of Edinburgh between August 2024 and July 2025.
I have received my B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, in 2014, 2016 and 2019, respectively. During my graduate years, I have worked as a Teaching Assistant in the same department and studied Reinforcement Learning, and Fully and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.
News
- [Oct. 2024] Our papers about traffic patterns and water consumption in Izmir are published online.
- [Feb. 2023] Our paper about self memory management with intrinsic motivation is published online.
- [Dec. 2022] Our paper on behavior analysis of İzmir residents is published online.
Weekly Schedule
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:15 | |||||
| 09:25 - 10:10 | |||||
| 10:20 - 11:05 | Office Hour | CE 308-2 & CE 315-2 (Lab) | |||
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Office Hour | CE 308-2 & CE 315-2 (Lab) | |||
| 12:10 - 12:55 | |||||
| 13:05 - 13:50 | CE 477-1 | Tural Haciyev (MSc) | CE 308-1 & CE 315-1 (Lab) | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | CE 477-1 | CE 308-1 & CE 315-1 (Lab) | Berkay Eren (MSc) | ||
| 14:55 - 15:40 | CE 477-1 | CE 308-1 & CE 315-1 | CE 308-2 & CE 315-2 | ||
| 15:50 - 16:35 | CE 308-1 & CE 315-1 | CE 308-2 & CE 315-2 | |||
| 16:45 - 17:30 | CE 308-1 & CE 315-1 | CE 308-2 & CE 315-2 |
Teaching
Courses
SE 113 - Introduction to Programming (2020-2021) CE 221 - Data Structures and Algorithms I (2021-2022) CE 308 - Computing Theory (2019-2020, 2021-2022, 2022-2023) CE 315 - Automata Theory and Formal Languages (2022-2023) SE 375 - System Programming (2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023) CE 407 - Introduction to Cloud Computing (2019-2020) CE 477 - Data Science (2022-2023) CE 533 - Artificial Intelligence (2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2022-2023)
Academic Service
Conference Reviewing
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2021, 2022)
- International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (2022)
- Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (2025)
Journal Reviewing
- Applied Intelligence (2023, 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence Review (2024)
- International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2024)
- Artificial Intelligence Communications (2024)
- Knowledge-based Systems (2024)
- Machine Learning (2024)
Research
I work on improving the quality and speed of reinforcement learning in fully and partially observable environments. My work extends to intrinsically motivated agents, multi-agent problems and application of RL. I am also interested in data science.
Research Interests
Data Science Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
Projects
"Solving Asymmetric Social Dilemmas in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Local Information", Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens, 2024 - 2025, Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Forming Useful Memory in Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning", Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Grant No: 120E427, 2021 - 2023, İzmir, Turkey "YÖK Program Ve Kontenjan Yonetim Sistemi (YÖK Pkys)", Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Grant No: 115G086, 2018 - 2019, Ankara, Turkey "Subgoal Identification in Sequential Decision Making under Partial Observability", Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Grant No: 215E250, 2016 - 2018, Ankara, Turkey
Publications
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