Dr. Yunus Serhat Bıçakçı is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Marmara University, where he leads the GeoAI Research Group. He is also an Affiliate Research Software Engineering Scientist in the Geospatial Data Science Group at the University of Glasgow. His research explores how multimodal artificial intelligence, vision-language models, and geographic information science intersect to tackle environmental, urban, and criminology challenges. He previously conducted postdoctoral research at UCL’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science and actively develops open-source scientific software for geospatial research.
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PhD in Applied Informatics, 2021
Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
MSc in Information Systems, 2013
Sakarya University
BSc in Business Administration, 2011
Anadolu University
BSc in Engineering, 2011
Ankara University
Academic appointments and research positions
Recent peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, and preprints in GeoAI
Scientific research tools, Python packages, and open datasets
Geospatial Vision-Language Model analysis for street-level imagery. Automated downloading of Mapillary street images by geographic location and structured multi-attribute urban scene understanding via open-weight multimodal VLMs.
A high-performance Python implementation of the Spatial Point Pattern Test (SPPT) for aggregated count data. Accelerated with sparse-matrix operations and bootstrap resampling to quantify spatial distribution similarity and calculate S-Index metrics.
Selected academic honors, international committee chairs, and recognitions