| FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES

Yücel SaygınFaculty of Engineering and Natural SciencesFaculty Member(216) 483 9576ysaygin@sabanciuniv.edu

Personal Web

http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/ysaygin/

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, 1994, 1996, and 2001, respectively.

Areas of Interest

Active database systems; data mining; data mining security; data warehouses; mobile data management.

Gul, Saima and Rabiger, Stefan and Saygın, Yücel (2022) "Context-based extraction of concepts from unstructured textual documents", Information Sciences, Vol.588, 248-264 (SCI)

Gezici, Gizem and Lipani, Aldo and Saygın, Yücel and Yılmaz, Emine (2021) "Evaluation metrics for measuring bias in search engine results", Information Retrieval Journal, Vol.24, No.2, 85-113 (SCI, SSCI)

Kaplan, Emre and Gürsoy, Mehmet Emre and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2020) "Known sample attacks on relation preserving data transformations", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol.17, No.2, 443-450 (SCI)

İnan, Ali and Gürsoy, Mehmet Emre and Saygın, Yücel (2020) "Sensitivity analysis for non-interactive differential privacy: bounds and efficient algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol.17, No.1, 194-207 (SCI)

Hatipoğlu, Emre and Gökçe, Osman Zeki and Arın, İnanç and Saygın, Yücel (2019) "Automated text analysis and international relations: the introduction and application of a novel technique for Twitter", All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, Vol.8, No.2, 183-204 (ESCI)

Göğüş, Aytaç and Saygın, Yücel (2019) "Privacy perception and information technology utilization of high school students", Heliyon, Vol.5, No.5 (ESCI)

Amro, Belal Mohammed and Levi, Albert and Saygın, Yücel (2019) "Flexible fair and collusion resistant pseudonym providing system", The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol.16, No.1, 80-87 (SCI)

Rabiger, Stefan and Spiliopoulou, Myra and Saygın, Yücel (2018) "How do annotators label short texts? toward understanding the temporal dynamics of tweet labeling", Information Sciences, Vol.457, 29-47 (SCI, SSCI)

Arın, İnanç and Erpam, Mert Kemal and Saygın, Yücel (2018) "I-TWEC: interactive clustering tool for Twitter", Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.96, 1-13 (SCI)

Kaplan, Emre and Gürsoy, Mehmet Emre and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2018) "Location disclosure risks of releasing trajectory distances", Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.113, 43-63 (SCI)

Kazmi, Mishal and Schüller, Peter and Saygın, Yücel (2017) "Improving scalability of inductive logic programming via pruning and best-effort optimisation", Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.87, 291-303 (SCI)

Gürsoy, Mehmet Emre and İnan, Ali and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2017) "Differentially private nearest neighbor classification", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SI), Vol.31, No.5, 1544-1575 (CPCI-S, SCI)

İnan, Ali and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2017) "Öğrenci verilerinin korunması: Fatih projesi ışığında teknik değerlendirme", Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi, Vol.10, No.1, 67-77 (NA)

Özalp, İsmet and Gürsoy, Mehmet Emre and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2016) "Privacy-preserving publishing of hierarchical data", ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, Vol.19, No.3 (SCI)

Dehkharghani, Rahim and Saygın, Yücel and Yanıkoğlu, Berrin and Oflazer, Kemal (2016) "SentiTurkNet: A Turkish polarity lexicon for sentiment analysis", Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol.50, No.3, 667-685 (SCI)

Hatipoğlu, Emre and Gökçe, Osman Zeki and Dinçer, Berkay and Saygın, Yücel (2016) "Sosyal medya ve Türk dış politikası: Kobani tweetleri üzerinden Türk dış politikası algısı (Social media and Turkish foreign policy: Turkish foregin policy perceptions through Kobane tweets)", Uluslararasi İlişkiler Dergisi, Vol.13, No.52, 175-197 (SSCI)

Gökçe, Osman Zeki and Hatipoğlu, Emre and Göktürk, Gökhan and Luetgert, Brooke and Saygın, Yücel (2014) "Twitter and politics: identifying Turkish opinion leaders in new social media", Turkish Studies, Vol.15, No.4, 671-688 (SSCI)

Dehkharghani, Rahim and Mercan, Hanefi and Javeed, Arsalan and Saygın, Yücel (2014) "Sentimental causal rule discovery from twitter", Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.41, No.10, 4950-4958 (SCI)

Amro, Belal Mohammed and Saygın, Yücel and Levi, Albert (2013) "Enhancing privacy in collaborative traffic-monitoring systems using autonomous location update", IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol.7, No.4, 388-395 (SCI)

Çaycı, Ayşegül and Menasalvas, Ernestina and Saygın, Yücel and Eibe, Santiago (2013) "Self-configuring data mining for ubiquitous computing", Information Sciences, Vol.246, 83-99 (SCI)

Abdalaal, Ahmed and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel (2013) "Privacy preserving publishing of opinion polls", Computers and Security, Vol.37, 143-154 (SCI)

Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Çiçek, Abdullah Ercüment and Pedersen, Thomas B. and Saygın, Yücel (2012) "A look-ahead approach to secure multiparty protocols", IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.24, No.7, 1170-1185 (SCI)

Tamersoy, Acar and Loukides, Grigorios and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Saygın, Yücel and Malin, Bradley (2012) "Anonymization of longitudinal electronic medical records", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.16, No.3, 413-423 (SCI)

Çobanoğlu, Murat Can and Saygın, Yücel and Sezerman, Uğur (2011) "Classification of GPCRs using family specific motifs", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol.8, No.6, 1495-1508 (SCI)

Nergiz, Mehmet and Tamersoy, Acar and Saygın, Yücel (2011) "Instant anonymization", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol.36, No.1 (SCI)

Yıldızlı, Can and Pedersen, Thomas Brochmann and Saygın, Yücel and Savaş, Erkay and Levi, Albert (2011) "Distributed privacy preserving clustering via homomorphic secret sharing and its application to (vertically) partitioned spatio-temporal data", International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, Vol.7, No.1, 46-66 (SCI)

Kaplan, Emre and Pedersen, Thomas Brochmann and Savaş, Erkay and Saygın, Yücel (2010) "Discovering private trajectories using background information", Data and Knowledge Engineering (Sp. Iss. SI), Vol.69, No.7, 723-736 (SCI)

Hintoğlu, Ayça Azgın and Saygın, Yücel (2010) "Suppressing microdata to prevent classification based inference", VLDB Journal, Vol.19, No.3, 385-410 (SCI)

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep and Saygın, Yücel (2009) "Recent progress in database privacy", Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.68, No.11, 1157-1159 (SCI)

Karlı, Sezin and Saygın, Yücel (2009) "Mining periodic patterns in spatio-temporal sequences at different time granularities", Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol.13, No.2, 301-335 (SCI)

Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan and Atzori, Maurizio and Güç, Barış and Saygın, Yücel (2009) "Towards trajectory anonymization: a generalization-based approach", Transactions on Data Privacy, Vol.2, No.1, 47-75 ()

Kaplan, Emre and Pedersen, Thomas Brochmann and Savaş, Erkay and Saygın, Yücel (2008) "Privacy risks in trajectory data publishing: reconstructing private trajectories from continuous properties", Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Vol.5178, 642-649 (SCI)

Bonchi, Francesco and Malin, Bradley and Saygın, Yücel (2008) "Recent advances in preserving privacy when mining data", Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol.65, No.issue , 1-4 (SCI)

İnan, Ali and Kaya, Selim Volkan and Saygın, Yücel and Savaş, Erkay and Azgın Hintoğlu, Ayça and Levi, Albert (2007) "Privacy preserving clustering on horizontally partitioned data", Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol.63, No.3, 646-666 (SCI)

Yardımcı, Galip Gürkan and Küçükural, Alper and Saygın, Yücel and Sezerman, Uğur (2006) "Modified association rule mining approach for the MHC-peptide binding problem", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4263, 165-173 (SCI)

İnan, Ali and Saygın, Yücel (2006) "Privacy preserving spatio-temporal clustering on horizontally partitioned data", Data warehousing and knowledge discovery (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Vol.4081, 459-468 (SCI)

Ünal, Aykut and Saygın, Yücel and Ulusoy, Özgür (2006) "Processing count queries over event streams at multiple time granularities", Information sciences, Vol.176, No.14, 2066-2096 (SCI)

Şaykol, Ediz and Saygın, Yücel and Erçil, Aytül and Willis, Andrew and Cooper, David and Joukowski, Martha S. (2005) "A web service platform for web-accessible archaeological databases", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3733, 362-370 (SCI)

Azgın Hintoğlu, Ayça and Saygın, Yücel (2005) "Suppressing microdata to prevent probabilistic classification based inference", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3674, 155-169 (SCI)

Azgın Hintoğlu, Ayça and Saygın, Yücel and Benbernou, Salim and Hacid, Mohand Said (2005) "Privacy preserving data mining services on the web", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3592, 246-255 (SCI)

Saygın, Yücel and Reisman, Arnold and Wang, Yungtong (2004) "Value of information gained from data mining in the context of information sharing", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol.51, No.4, 441-450 (SCI)

Oliveira, Stanley R. M. and Zaïane, Osmar R. and Saygın, Yücel (2004) "Secure association rule sharing", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Vol.3056, 74-85 (SCI)

Verykios, V. S. and Elmagarmid, A. K. and Bertino, E. and Saygın, Yücel and Dasseni, E. (2004) "Association rule hiding", IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.16, No.4, 434-447 (SCI)

Gezici, Gizem and Yanıkoğlu, Berrin and Tapucu, Dilek and Saygın, Yücel, "Sentiment analysis using domain-adaptation and sentence-based analysis", Advances in Social Media Analysis, Gaber, Mohamed Medhat and Cocea, Mihaela and Wiratunga, Nirmalie and Göker, Ayşe (eds.), Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, June 2015, 45-64

Çaycı, Ayşegül and Eibe, Santiago and Menasalvas, Ernestina and Saygın, Yücel, "Bayesian networks to predict data mining algorithm behavior in ubiquitous computing environments", Analysis of Social Media and Ubiquitous Data: International Workshops MSM 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2010, and MUSE 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Atzmueller, Martin and Hotho, Andreas and Strohmaier, Markus and Chin, Alvin (eds.), Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2011, 119-141

Saygın, Yücel and Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan, "Condensation-based methods in emerging application domains", Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques, Bonchi, Francesco and Ferrari, Elena (eds.), Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, November 2010

Bonchi, Francesco and Saygın, Yücel and Verykios, Vassilis and Atzori, Maurizio and Goukalas, Aris and Kaya, Volkan and Savaş, Erkay, "Privacy in spatiotemporal data mining", Mobility, data mining, and privacy: geographic knowledge discovery, Giannotti, Fosca and Pedreschi, Dino (eds.), Berlin: Springer Heidelberg 2008, 297-333

Pedreschi, Dino and Bonchi, Francesco and Turini, Franco and Verykios, Vassilios and Atzori, Maurizio and Malin, Bradley and Moelans, Bart and Saygın, Yücel, "Privacy protection: regulations and technologies, opportunities and threats", Mobility, data mining, and privacy: geographic knowledge discovery, Giannotti, Fosca and Pedreschi, Dino (eds.), Berlin: Springer Heidelberg 2008, 101-119

Saygın, Yücel, "Privacy and confidentiality issues in data mining", Encyclopedia of data warehousing and mining, Wang, John (ed.), London: Idea Group Publishing 2006

Saygın, Yücel, "Hoarding in mobile computing environments", Mobile computing handbook, CRC Press, January 2005

Saygın, Yücel, "Sanitization and anonymization of document repositories", Web and Information Security, Hershey, PA, USA: Idea Group Inc., January 2005, 133-148

Saygın, Yücel and Wang, Yungtong and Reisman, Arnold, "A game theoretic approach to value information in data mining", Icm Millennium Lectures on Games, Petrosyan, Leon and Yeung, David W.K. (eds.), Berlin: Springer Verlag, January 2003