The Koç University-Iş Bankası Artificial Intelligence Research Center (KUIS AI) was established in early 2020 to create a center of excellence in Turkey and the region in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. The Center has 15+ core faculty and 20+ affiliated faculty from multiple disciplines, including engineering, medicine, economics, management, basic and social sciences. The core faculty comes from the College of Engineering at Koç University, which has established itself as a key contributor to AI-related technologies in a short amount of time, helping to attract faculty members from top institutions and boasting a select body of alumni.
Research areas at the center include autonomous driving, bioinformatics, computer vision, deep learning, intelligent interaction, interpretability/explainability, multi-media processing, natural-language processing, reinforcement learning, representation learning, robotics and more.