About

 
Cengiz Acartürk
dr., prof.UJ
3 Ingardena Street, 30-060 Kraków

I am a faculty member at the Centre for Cognitive Science at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. My current research interests cover eye tracking applications, group eye tracking, and eye movements in reading. I teach graduate courses on visual cognition, oculomotor control in reading, and methodology of cognitive science.

I have been teaching courses on visual cognition, psychology of reading, methodology of cognitive science. In the past, I thought courses on human factors in cyber-physical systems, cyber systems and information security, cognition and machine learning, artificial intelligence for cognitive science.

Faculty Member, Centre for Cognitive Science
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland2021-ongoing

Graduate and undergraduate-level academic supervision and teaching

Faculty Member, Cyber Security Graduate Program
Informatics Institute, METU, Ankara, Turkey2017 – 2021

Graduate-level academic supervision and teaching

Faculty member, Cognitive Science Graduate Program
Informatics Institute, METU, Ankara, Turkey2012 – 2021

Graduate-level academic supervision and teaching

Postdoctoral Researcher, MLDC Microsoft Language Development Center
Microsoft Portugal, Lisbon2011 – 2012

Research and language-specific consultancy on the development of an Automatic Speech Recognition and Text to Speech system for Turkish

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science Graduate Program
Informatics Institute, METU, Ankara, Turkey2010 – 2011

 “Investigation of Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Natural Languages within the Framework of Cognitive Science and Comparison of Experimental Methodologies” (funded by TUBITAK BIDEB The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Informatics
University of Hamburg, Germany2006 – 2010

At the Cross Modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems (CINACS) Project, funded by DFG International Research Training Group (IRTG). Knowledge and Language Processing Institute (WSV), Center for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISR), Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany. Theoretical and applied research on the analysis of multimodal comprehension and learning

M.Sc., Cognitive Science Graduate Program
Informatics Institute, METU, Ankara, Turkey2002 – 2005

Thesis title: Gradient Characteristics of the Unaccusative / Unergative Distinction in Turkish: An Experimental Investigation

Technical/User Support Group member (2001-2002) and User Support Group leader (2002-2006)
METU Computer Center, Ankara, Turkey2001 – 2006

Activities of promoting the availability and accessibility of the IT resources provided by the university, involved in setting up an HCI Lab and eye tracking facility

B.Sc., Department of Mechanical Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey1992 – 1998