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Mustafa MISIR, Assoc.Prof. (Chair)

Department of Computer Engineering, Istinye University, Turkey

Assoc. Prof., CS, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016-2019
Postdoc, Computer Science, University of Freiburg, 2015-2016
Postdoc, Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 2013-2015
Visiting Res., Informatics, BarcelonaTech (UPC) & University of Zurich, 2013
Postdoc, Computer Science, INRIA Saclay - Universite Paris Sud XI, 2012-2013
PhD, Computer Science, KU Leuven, 2009-2012

Email: mustafa.misir [at] istinye.edu.tr
Address: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Istinye University, Topkapi Campus, Maltepe Mah., Edirne Cirpici Yolu, No.9, 34010 Zeytinburnu, Istanbul/Turkey

Google Scholar (h-Inx: 16) / Researcher ID: A-6739-2010 / Orchid ID: 0000-0002-6885-6775 / LinkedIN

Leading the Machine lEarning and Operations Research (MEmORy) Lab ; Member of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Research Center

News

A conference paper on Algorithm Selection was accepted to LOD 2019, 06/2019
Moved to Istinye University, Department of Computer Engineering, Turkey, 04/2019
Having a stream on Hyper-heuristics in EURO 2019, Dublin, 06/2019
Organizing an invited session on Automated Algorithm Design in MCDM 2019, Istanbul, 06/2019
A book chapter on Data-Driven Bundle Design was published, 03/2019
Won 2-years TUBITAK 2232 Reintegration Fellowship grant on Automated Algorithm Design, 08/2018
Organized a stream on Hyper-heuristics in EURO 2018, Valencia, 07/2018
Visited CODeS research group at KU Leuven, 03/2018
Presented a keynote talk on Automated Algorithm Design in ISCC 2017, Guangzhou, 12/2017
Organized a special session on Algorithm Algorithm Design in IEEE CIEL 2017, Hawaii, 11-12/2017
Delivered a tutorial on Algorithm Selection in SEAL 2017, Shenzen, 11/2017
Gave a keynote talk on Algorithm Selection in CENet 2017 , Shanghai, 07/2017
Visited ASAP research group at University of Nottingham, 05-06/2017
7+1 papers were accepted/published in AIJ, JoH, MIC, DSO, IEEE CEC and SEAL, 2017
A new, up-to-date Hyper-heuristic Bibliography is online [ PDF BOOK ]

Research Interests

Automated Algorithm Design (Machine Learning + Algorithm Design)
Data Science / Analytics
Operations Research

which relate to

Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Intelligence, Meta/Hyper-heuristics, Adaptive/Reactive/Autonomous Search, Algorithm Portfolios, Algorithm Configuration (Tuning + Control), Meta-learning, Empirical Algorithmics, Design of Experiments, Recommender Systems (Collaborative Filtering), Boolean Satisability, Constraint Programming, Combinatorial Optimisation, Data Mining (Knowledge Discovery), Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems and Automated Planning/Scheduling

Achievements / Awards

TUBITAK 2232 Reintegration Research Fellowship 2018
China Thousand Young Talents Program 2016 Nominee
Best Paper Runner-up in the 9th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION) Conference 2015 for OSCAR
ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2013 Finalist (for Young Researchers in CS and Applied Math)
ERCIM (Marie Curie) Alain Bensoussan Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012
1st International Cross-Domain Heuristic Search Challenge (CHeSC) 2011 Winner
1st International Nurse Rostering Competition (INRC) 2010 Finalist team member
KU Leuven PhD Scholarship in Computer Science 2009-2012
Turkish National Ministry of Education Overseas PhD Scholarship, 2008 (declined)
Yeditepe University (Turkey) BSc Fellowship (2002-2007), Undergraduate Assistantship (2006-2007) and Graduate Assistantship (2007-2008) in Computer Engineering