General Chairs

Albert Ali Salah
Bogazici University

Albert Ali Salah received the Ph.D. degree from the Computer Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Between 2007-2011 he worked at the CWI Institute, Amsterdam and the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He is currently an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering Department and the chair of the Cognitive Science program. He works on computer vision, multimodal interfaces, pattern recognition, and computer analysis of human behavior, with more than 100 publications in related areas, including an edited book on computer analysis of human behavior. For his work on facial feature localization, he received the inaugural EBF European Biometrics Research Award in 2006. In 2010 he co-chaired the eNTERFACE Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, and thereafter served in the eNTERFACE Steering Committee. He initiated the International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding in 2010 and acted as a co-chair between 2010-2014. He is a General Chair of the 2014 ACM Int. Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). He served as a Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE), Journal on Multimodal Interfaces, IEEE Trans. Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Pervasive Computing and ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. He is an editorial board member of JAISE, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies, and IEEE Trans. Autonomous Mental Development. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, EUCogIII, the IEEE AMD Technical Committee taskforce on Action & Perception, IEEE Biometrics Council, and the Turkish RoboCup National Committee.

Personal website: 
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/

Professor Tonta is with the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.  He teaches courses and carries out research on information retrieval, information architecture, information systems design, networked information services, digital libraries, electronic publishing, open access and bibliometrics.  In the past Professor Tonta served as the founding director of the National Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM) of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), the Chair of the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, the Chair-elect of the Information Management Committee (IMC) of NATO's Research & Technology Organization (RTO) and Director of IMC's Lecture Series on Electronic Information Management.  He has been involved in the projects supported by the European Commission (most recently, MedOANet and PASTEUR4OA) and TUBITAK.  His works appeared in a number of professional journals.  He was the editor of Türk Kütüphaneciliği, the quarterly journal of the Turkish Librarians' Association (TKD) and Bilgi Dünyası, the bi-annual publication of the Turkish University and Research Libraries Association (ÜNAK) and currently serves as the editorial (advisory) board member of several journals including Information Development and LIBER Quarterly. Professor Tonta is the recipient of Hacettepe University's Science Award (2010). He is currently the Deputy Chair of UNESCO Turkey's Memory of the World Committee. Professor Tonta is a member of several professional organizations including the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and served in the Organizing and Programme Committees of several international conferences including IMCW, ICKM, and ELPUB. Professor Tonta received his graduate degrees in library and information studies from the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.), the University of Wales (M.Lib.), and Hacettepe University (M.A.).

Personal website: 
http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html

Program Chairs

Almıla Akdağ Salah 
Bogazici University

Alkim Almila Akdag Salah has received her BS in industrial design and MA in art history from Istanbul Technical University. She obtained her PhD degree in 2008 from the Art History Department of UCLA, under the supervision of Prof. Donald Preziosi. She was one of the first Digital Humanities Fellows of UCLA. As a digital humanities researcher, she uses various computational methodologies such as social network analysis, image analysis, text analysis and computational analysis of artworks. In 2011 she received a VENI grant from the Netherlands Research Council NWO and worked as a researcher at the New Media Department of University of Amsterdam from 2011 onwards. She taught courses on Information Visualization at Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), University of Amsterdam and Bogazici University. She is currently affiliated with the e-Humanities group of KNAW, Netherlands, and she is an adjunct faculty at Bogazici University. She is a management committee member of the COST action KNOWESCAPE as the workgroup leader of Visual Analytics of Knowledge Spaces.

Personal website: 
almilakdag.wordpress.com

Cassidy Sugimoto

Sugimoto researches within the domain of scholarly communication and scientometrics, examining the formal and informal ways in which knowledge producers consume and disseminate scholarship. She has co-edited two volumes and has published 50 journal articles on this topic.  Her work has been presented at numerous conferences and has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Sloan Foundation, among other agencies. Sugimoto is actively involved in teaching and service and has been rewarded in these areas with an Indiana University Trustees Teaching award (2014) and a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (2009). Sugimoto has an undergraduate degree in music performance, an M.S. in library science, and a Ph.D. in information and library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Personal website: 
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto/index.php

Umut Al 
Hacettepe University

Dr. Al currently works as an associate professor at the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. He received both his MA (2002) and PhD degrees (2008) in Library and Information Studies from the same Department.  He teaches courses and carries out research on scholarly communication, marketing of information services, information seeking behavior, information brokerage, research methods, information technology and bibliometrics.  He published several papers in professional journals (such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Library & Information Science Research, Libri, Scientometrics) and is a member of professional associations (such as Association of University and Research Librarians, Turkish Librarians' Association). He is an advisory board member and reviewer of several journals including Information Worldand Turkish Librarianship. He also worked as a project manager and researcher in several national projects and as a researcher in EU-supported projects.

Personal website: 
http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~umutal/

Doctoral Consortium Chair

Judit Bar-Ilan

Judit Bar-Ilan is professor at the Department of Information Science of Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She received her PhD in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and started her research in information science in the mid-1990s at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She moved to the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University in 2002. She is a member of the editorial boards of JASIST, Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, PLoS ONE, Cybermetrics, and Online Information Review. Her areas of interest include: informetrics, information retrieval, Internet research, information behavior and usability.

Andrea Scharnhorst

Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst is Head of Research and Innovation at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) a Dutch institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy (KNAW) and NWO. DANS hosts two services EASY - a Trusted Digital Repository for research data primarily from the social sciences and humanities, and NARCIS - a portal to Dutch Research Information. Dr. Scharnhorst is also affiliated as scientific coordinator of the Computational Humanities Programme with the e-humanities group of the KNAW in Amsterdam. Starting in physics she got her PhD in philosophy of science. She co - edited books on Innovation Networks (with A. Pyka) and on Models of Science Dynamics (with K. Börner and P. van den Besselaar). She is editorial board member of Scientometrics. Her current work in the information sciences is devoted to the development of knowledge maps for library collections, research data archives and on-line knowledge spaces such as Wikipedia. She is chair of the COST Action TD1210 KnoweScape (2013-2017).

@ScharnhorstA, andrea.scharnhorst@dans.knaw.nl

Publication Chair

Orçun Madran

Orçun Madran, received his undergraduate degree in Information Management in 1999 and MA in Management Information Sciences in 2005.

He is currently working as an academic staff at the Department of Information Management at Hacettepe University.

He is also teaching e-learning and instructional technology related courses both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He is still working on a thesis about Educational Technology. His main research areas include distance education, e-learning and mobile information systems.