After obtaining his BSc (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) and MSc in Economics (University of Vienna), he gained his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 2008. Until 2015 Kabadayı has mainly worked on the economic, financial and labor history of the Ottoman Empire. With UrbanOccupationsOETR he has pursued his academic career further as an economic historian, within the fields of digital and geospatial humanities, focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.
Elif Sertel is a Professor at Geomatics Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul Technical University where she was ranked as the first student among 2002 Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering graduates. She received her master’s degree (2004) and doctoral degree (2008) in Geomatics Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University. She conducted her PhD dissertation work at Rutgers University, USA as a Fulbright Scholar. She is the first Geomatics Engineer selected for Fulbright scholarship in Turkey. She investigated impact of land cover change especially due to the urbanization on regional climate in her PhD study. She held post-doctoral researcher position at Rutgers University. Dr. Sertel became an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University in July 2009. She was entitled as Associate Professor in April 2010 and Professor in March 2016.
She held the Director position at Istanbul Technical University - Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing (ITU-CSCRS) between 2012 and 2021, where she was the Vice-Director between 2009 and 2012. Prof. Sertel has been serving as an expert and Vice-Chair for the evaluation of European Union (EU) projects.
Prof. Sertel received Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2017 (TÜBA-GEBİP 2017) and she is the first Scientist received this award in Geomatics Engineering field.
web.itu.edu.tr/~sertele/
Batuhan Sarıtürk is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Koc University. He received his BSc degree (2012) from Karadeniz Technical University, MSc (2015) and PhD (2022) degrees from Istanbul Technical University from the Department of Geomatics Engineering. He worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University from 2013 to 2022. His main research areas include photogrammetry, remote sensing, computer vision, image processing, machine/deep learning, and geographical information systems.
Cengiz is a MSc student on Satellite Communication and Remote Sensing program at Istanbul Technical University. His research interests primarily revolve around machine/deep learning and computer vision, particularly in the context of multi-modal earth observation data.
Efe graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University History department in 2016. Currently, he is a PhD student in the History Department at Koç University. His interests include the economic and demographic geography of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-nineteenth century, with a specific emphasis on the city of Bursa and its environs. In his research he links individuals and their family members across three sources: Ottoman population registers, tax surveys, and probate inventories in the period 1820-1850. By supplementing them with related archival material he explores occupational life and work cycles and intergenerational wealth and status transfer. Acknowledging that geography is an essential dimension of wealth-creation and lifestyles, his studies use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology to spatially analyze social, economic, demographic, and migration networks and the role of topography in their creation.
Gafur Semi Şengül is a Research Fellow at Koç University. He received his bachelor's degree in Geomatics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2023, graduating with second-degree honors. He continues his academic journey as a Master of Science (M.Sc.) student at ITU in the same discipline. He is interested in Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing and Machine/Deep Learning tasks, including object detection, image segmentation, image classification, and feature extraction within GeoAI applications.
İlay Nur Tümer graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Geomatics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2022 and is currently pursuing a Master's degree at Istanbul Technical University. Her academic interests include remote sensing, object-based classification, machine learning, image analysis and Geographical Information Systems.
Paria has obtained her MSc. degree in Satellite Communication and Remote sensing at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) in 2015. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at İTÜ. Her academic interests focus on utilizing the availability and volume of remotely sensed satellite images and data with particular emphasis on ``Long-Term Satellite Image Time-Series analysis``, ``Analysis of Land Use/Cover Change`` and ``Satellite Aerosol Products and Atmospheric Pollution``.
Ana Basiri is a Professor in Geospatial Data Science and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow's College of Science and Engineering. Ana works on developing (theoretical and applied) solutions that consider gaps, unavailability, and biases in data as a useful source of data to make inference about the underlying reasons that caused missingness or biases. For this, she leads a team of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with world-leading academic and industrial partners, including Ordnance Survey GB, Uber, Alan Turing Institute, and engage with the public, policymakers, and government. Ana is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Navigation, and associate editor of several journals including IET Smart Cities, and has received several awards and prizes, including Women Role Model in Science by Alexander Humboldt and European Commission Marie Curie Alumni.
gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/anabasiri/
His interests are: Bronze and Iron Age Anatolian and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology; Classical Archaeology; Lydian, Persian, and Greek Interaction in Western Anatolia; Landscape Archaeology; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Digital Archaeology
Piet Gerrits received his undergraduate degree in (Geo-)Archaeology with a specialization in GIS at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Working with the Barcın Höyük excavation and UrbanOccupationsOETR projects during his graduate studies at Koç University (MA 2018), he gained an interest in developing spatial databases and conducting computational research in archaeology and history. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Geospatial Data Science at the University of Glasgow, focusing on the use of historical maps and census data to gain better understanding of the long-term role of transport in urbanization.
I received my master's degree in Geomatics Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2022 and, my master's thesis was about ''Monitoring Urban Heat Island by Using Remote Sensing Data''. I am currently a Ph. D. student at ITU. My research focus on ''Analysis of climate change using satellite image'', ''Land Cover/Land Use Change Modelling'', ''Satellite Image Processing'' and ''Earth Observation''.
Aybike Aydın is in her third year in Geomatics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. She is interested in analysing change detection using remote sensing data and also machine learning applications on remote sensing, which she is working on improving herself.