Itir Onal Ertugrul

Utrecht University, Netherlands

Itir Onal Ertugrul is an Assistant Professor at Social and Affective Computing Group, Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. Prior to joining UU, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Affect Analysis Group, University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting Ph.D. student at Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics Group, TU Delft. She received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Computer Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University. Her research interests are in the broad areas of computer vision, machine learning, and affective computing, with a specific focus on automated analysis and synthesis of facial actions to understand human behavior, emotion, pain, and psychopathology.