Rate My Professor Ismailcem Arpinar

Ismailcem Budak Arpinar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia School of Computing. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1998, with a thesis on the formalization of workflows and correctness issues in concurrent environments. He also holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the same university in 1993, where he developed MoodView, an advanced graphical user interface for object-oriented database management systems, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 1991. Arpinar's career at the University of Georgia began in December 1998 as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS) Lab. He advanced through roles including Research Computational Biologist in the Department of Genetics from April to July 2001, Assistant Professor of Computer Science from August 2001 to August 2007, and has served as Associate Professor since August 2007. Prior to joining UGA, he worked as a Software Engineer at AYDIN Software and Electronics Industry Co. from March 1997 to December 1998, Research Scientist at Middle East Technical University's Software Research and Development Center from February 1992 to March 1997, and Software Engineer at the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey from August 1991 to February 1992.

Arpinar's research focuses on Human Brain Inspired AI, Neuro-symbolic Computing and Knowledge-infused Learning, Time-series Forecasting and Foundation Models, Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs, Social Computing and Social Media Analytics, Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, and Databases and Distributed Information Systems. He is a member of the LSDIS Lab and contributes to the University of Georgia Obesity Research Initiative. With 89 publications listed on ResearchGate and over 3,000 citations on Google Scholar, his influential works include 'OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis' (2005, 502 citations), 'Ontology-driven web services composition platform' (2005, 286 citations), 'Ontological evaluation and validation' (2010, 259 citations), 'Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships' (2004, 248 citations), and 'Semantic association identification and knowledge discovery for national security applications' (2005, 240 citations). These contributions have significantly impacted fields such as ontology evaluation, semantic web technologies, information fusion, and social network analytics.