Burcu Sayin Günel

Hi! I'm a postdoctoral researcher currently affiliated with the Structured Machine Learning Group at the University of Trento. I obtained my PhD from the University of Trento, where I conducted research on active learning and hybrid human-machine classifiers. As an experienced AI Researcher, I am currently contributing to the TANGO Project funded by the European Commission, where we are developing AI-based support systems for decision-makers. I am particularly working on Clinical NLP and hybrid medical decision-making. My research contributions are recognized through publications in top journals and presentations at prestigious conferences worldwide. Beyond research, I co-organize workshops and conferences, promoting collaboration and innovation in AI.

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Here's some of my recent publications.

Perspective: Leveraging Human Understanding for Identifying and Characterizing Image Atypicality

We provide a model-agnostic characterization of image atypicality based on human understanding. We introduce an annotation tool that increases annotation accuracy and speed by presenting several distinct sets of auxiliary images, and that increases cost-efficiency by carefully designed sampling techniques.

The Science of Rejection: A Research Area for Human Computation

We motivate why the science of learning to reject model predictions is central to ML, and what is the role of humans.

Crowd-Powered Hybrid Classification Services: Calibration is all you need

We take the first steps toward a science for hybrid classification services, discussing key concepts, challenges, and architectures, and then focusing on a central aspect, that of ML calibration and how it can be achieved with crowdsourced labels.

Here’s my recent activities.

F+Cube Week 2022

I was invited to the F+Cube Week 2022 on November 15-23, 2022 at TU Delft. It was a pleasure to present my research and attend trainings from inspirational teaching to personal development.

New job alert

As of November 2022, I started a new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Università di Trento! I will be working on cooperative human-machine intelligence.

PhD graduation

On 26 September 2022, I became a Doctor (Cum laude) in Information and Communication Technology at Università di Trento with my PhD thesis titled “Towards reliable hybrid human-machine classifiers”.

My awards

Blue Sky Best Paper Award

Our paper "The Science of Rejection: A Research Area for Human Computation” received the Blue Sky Best Paper Award at the 9th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), Nov. 2021.

Methods Recognition

Our paper "On the state of reporting in crowdsourcing experiments and a checklist to aid current practices” received the Methods Recognition award from ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2021), in Oct. 2021.

Best Paper Award

Our paper "A Novel Approach to Information Spreading Models for Social Networks” received the Best Paper award at The Sixth International Conference on Data Analytics (Data Analytics 2017), in Nov. 2017.

Contact me: burcu.sayin@unitn.it

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