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Pinar Yanardag

Assistant professor

Research interests

  • Graph kernels
  • Submodular optimization
  • Human-AI collaboration
  • Augmented creativity
  • Deep learning

Google Scholar

Honors and awards

  • 2022: Honorable Mention Award, ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference
  • 2021: Best Paper Award, Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision WS, NeurIPS
  • 2020: 72nd Primetime Emmy Award Nominee for Creative Director (Westworld/HBO)
  • 2019: TUBITAK 2232 Outstanding Research Fellow

Professional affiliations

Education