Yunus Serhat Bıçakçı

Yunus Serhat Bıçakçı

Assistant Professor

Marmara University

University of Glasgow

Biography

Dr. Yunus Serhat Bıçakçı is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Marmara University and 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.

Download my CV.

Interests
  • GeoAI & Geospatial Intelligence
  • Vision-Language Models (VLMs) & Multimodal AI
  • Spatial Data Science & Urban Semantics
  • Remote Sensing & Street-Level Analytics
  • Environmental Criminology
Education
  • 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

Experience

Academic appointments and research positions

 
 
 
 
 
Faculty of Applied Sciences, Marmara University
Assistant Professor
Jan 2025 – Present Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Research and teaching in GeoAI, multimodal vision-language models, spatial data science, and urban analytics.
 
 
 
 
 
Geospatial Data Science Group, University of Glasgow
Affiliate Research Software Engineering Scientist
Jun 2024 – Present Glasgow, UK
Advancing open-source scientific software, multimodal foundation models, and geospatial intelligence frameworks in collaboration with the GDS Glasgow team.
 
 
 
 
 
Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jan 2023 – May 2024 London, UK
Conducted spatial data science, geographic profiling, and machine learning research for crime science and environmental criminology.

Honors & Awards

Selected academic honors and research recognitions

Best Short Paper Award
Awarded for the research paper “A Graph-Based Community Detection Approach for Identifying the Semantic Neighbourhoods within London’s Airbnb Properties” presented at the 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science in Tartu, Estonia.

Contact