Duygu Sezen Islakoğlu
I am a PhD student in the Data Intensive Systems group at Utrecht University under supervision of Dr. Mel Chekol and Prof. Yannis Velegrakis. I am interested in the intersection of knowledge graphs and language models.
Before joining Utrecht University, I was a Master of Artificial Intelligence student at KU Leuven. I worked with Dr. Sebastijan Dumancic and Prof. Hendrik Blockeel for my master thesis "Understanding Events in Continuous-time Dynamic Graphs". In 2020, I graduated from Koç University with double major in Computer Engineering and Mathematics.
Proud to be one of the alumni of Kabatas High School and Nesin Mathematics Village.
scroll down for the paintings and photography ↓
publications
| [1] | D. S. Islakoglu*, Jan-Christoph Kalo*, ChronoSense: Exploring Temporal Understanding in Large Language Models with Time Intervals of Events, ACL 2025 Main [paper] [code] |
| [2] | D. S. Islakoglu*, M. Chekol, Y. Velegrakis, Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Time Interval Prediction in Text-Enhanced Temporal Knowledge Graphs, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2024, Best Research Paper Award [paper] [arxiv] [code] |
| [3] | D. S. Islakoglu*, I. Saccardi*, A. Neerincx, F. L. Vinella, Symbiotic Child Emotional Support with Social Robots and Temporal Knowledge Graphs, Human-centered Design of Symbiotic Hybrid Intelligence, Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2022 [paper] |
news
| May 16, 2025 | Our paper "ChronoSense: Exploring Temporal Understanding in Large Language Models with Time Intervals of Events" is accepted to ACL Main 🎉 Super excited for the conference! |
| April 10-12, 2025 | I attended ASML PhD Master Class. |
| Mar 11, 2025 | I will be a workshop chair at Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-Trained Language Models Workshop at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025). |
| Feb 27, 2025 | I was at the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data. |
| Nov 18-22, 2024 | I attended BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2024, Dijkstra Fellowship Day @CWI, Dutch Belgian Database Day (DBDBD). What a week. |
| May 30, 2024 | Our paper received Best Research Paper Award in Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2024 Main Track 🎉 |
| May 13-17, 2024 | I was a conference volunteer at IEEE ICDE 2024 (International Conference on Data Engineering). |
| Feb 24, 2024 | Our paper is accepted to Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2024! 🎉 |
| Sept 30, 2023 | I attended Synapse AI Symposium in Milan. |
| July 10-14, 2023 | I participated in ACM Summer School on Data Science 2023 in Athens. |
| Jun 21, 2023 | I was at Google I/O Connect 2023 Amsterdam. |
| Jun 7, 2023 | I presented my work during the poster session at Werkconferentie Open Overheid. |
| Apr 19-20, 2023 | I attended ICT Open 2023. |
| Oct 31, 2022 | I was a moderator at ICAI Day: AI & Climate Change. |
| Aug 7-10, 2022 | I attended Oxford Machine Learning Summer School. |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Dr. Mel Chekol and I have been received a teaching award for our MSc course Knowledge and Data Engineering. |
| May 15, 2022 | Our paper Symbiotic Child Emotional Support with Social Robots and Temporal Knowledge Graphs is accepted at Human-Centered Design of Symbiotic Hybrid Intelligence Workshop at Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference 2022 in Netherlands. |
| Dec 7, 2021 | I gave a short presentation at DBDBD 2021 about Learning Embeddings of Events in Continuous-time Dynamic Graphs. |
paintings
photography
