ABOUT
Hello, I am Fırat.
Psychologist, M.Sc. · Cognitive scientist · Statistics tutor
For 13 years I have been teaching one-to-one statistics and biostatistics at every level, from undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers. I also serve as a statistics advisor on medical research projects.
I completed my B.Sc. in Psychology and my M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at METU. In my research I apply deep learning, computer vision and affective computing methods to speech and EEG data.
As someone who both teaches statistics and uses it in his own research, I prefer to talk about real data in a lesson, not the textbook example.
Education
- Cognitive Science, M.Sc.Middle East Technical University (METU)
- Psychology, B.Sc.Middle East Technical University (METU)
Research interests
- Speech emotion recognition
- EEG and neural decoding
- Affective computing
- Deep learning
- Computer vision
- Explainable AI
Publications and projects
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PUBLICATION · 2020
Turkish Emotion Voice Database (TurEV-DB)
Canpolat, S. F., Ormanoğlu, Z., & Zeyrek, D. · LREC 2020. A Turkish emotional speech corpus; openly available and still being cited.
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MASTER'S THESIS
Speech emotion recognition with spectrograms and convolutional neural networks
An approach that turns the audio signal into an image, classifies it with a CNN and explains it with Grad-CAM.
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PROJECT
Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB)
Contribution to updating the corpus of Turkish discourse connectives.
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ADVISING
Statistics advising in medical research
Analysis and reporting for clinical studies in paediatrics and neurology.
The first step is one message.
Tell me your course and your date, and we will plan the rest together.