Hasan Davulcu

Dr. Hasan Davulcu is a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. Dr. Davulcu developed patented AI and machine learning algorithms to mine information from multi-lingual text, image and video sources on social networks. His research in data mining and machine learning were published at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society conferences and journals. His sociocultural modeling work in US DOD Minerva Research Initiative funded "Funding Allies for the War of Words'' project was recognized with a 2011 HSCB Focus Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering OASD (R&E). He is currently the PI of an NSF Partnership for Innovation (PFI:BIC) grant focusing on behavioral analytics for detecting financial fraud and PI of a DoD Minerva Research Initiative project titled "New Analytics for Measuring and Countering Social Influence and Persuasion of Extremist Groups''. Davulcu holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey and, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stony Brook University, New York. He is co-founder & CTO of ARTIS MAGI -- a startup developing and deploying highly complex and proprietary algorithms derived from social science and artificial intelligence to pinpoint pivotal target audiences and sway them in desirable directions.