Alper Demir

About Me

I am currently a post doctoral researcher in the Autonomous Agents Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.

I also hold my position as an Assistant Professor at İzmir University of Economics.

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.

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

Projects

• "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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