October 2017: My research team won the 1^st place in Physionet Challenge 2017 (a.k.a. AliveCor) among 75 teams. Physionet is the grand forum of “Computing in Cardiology” which offers free access via the web to large and growing collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software.

September 2017: The Finnish science magazine Rajapinta (Interface) published an interview with me about my Nature – SREP article, “Personalized Monitoring and Advance Warning System for Cardiac Arrhythmias“. (see in English)

August 2017: My article, Real-Time Vibration-Based Structural Damage Detection Using One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks, became the 3^rd most popular paper of the Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier) journal.

July 2017: The PhD theses that I supervised, “Quantum Cuts, A Quantum Mechanical Spectral Graph Partitioning Method for Salient Object Detection”, won the Best Nordic PhD Thesis Award in SCIA 2017.

March 2017: Our Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier) article, Real-Time Vibration-Based Structural Damage Detection Using One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks, became the 5th most popular paper of the journal.

January 2017: Our IEEE Transaction article, Real-Time Patient-Specific ECG Classification by 1D Convolutional Neural Networks became the 5th most popular paper of the year 2016 in IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering.  

September 2016: My research team won the 2nd place in Physionet Challenge 2016 among 48 teams. Physionet is the grand forum of “Computing in Cardiology” which offers free access via the web to large and growing collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software. 

April 2015: We got the 3rd place in IEEE Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Challenge@NER 2015 among 280 teams. 

2010-2015: The article, “Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks by Multi-Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization“,  is the 4th most cited paper in the Elsevier Neural Networks journal.

September 2015: The paper, “Visual Saliency by Extended Quantum Cuts“, was nominated for the Best Paper Award in Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2015). 

August 2014: The paper, “Automatic Object Segmentation by Quantum Cuts“, won the IBM Best Student Paper Award at Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014).

September 2013: The paper, “QUANTUM MECHANICS IN COMPUTER VISION: AUTOMATIC OBJECT EXTRACTION“, was nominated for the Best Paper Award in Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2013). 

2014: MUVIS systems ranked 2nd in MSR-Bing Image Retrieval Challenge

2013: MUVIS solution won the 3rd place in Competition on Counter Measures to 2D Face Spoofing Attacks  at ICB 2013

June 2013: The paper, “Evolutionary Feature Synthesis by Multi-dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization” won the Best Paper Award at  EUVIP.

November 11, 2012: Alya Nickole Kiranyaz was born.