Heysem Kaya

Assistant Professor, Utrecht University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Heysem Kaya

Emails

****@uu.nl (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Utrecht University (uu.nl)

2019 – Present

Assistant Professor

Computer Engineering, Namik Kemal University (nku.edu.tr)

2017 – 2019

Postdoc

Computer Engineering, Namik Kemal University (nku.edu.tr)

2015 – 2017

PhD student

Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University (boun.edu.tr)

2010 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee

Stan J. Meyberg

2025 – Present

PhD Advisee

Jiawei Yu

2023 – Present

PhD Advisee

Francisca Pessanha

2022 – Present

Coauthor

Albert Ali Salah

2014 – Present

PhD Advisee

Gizem Sogancioglu

2020 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Albert Ali Salah

2012 – 2015

Expertise

affective computing

emotion recognition

mood disorders

2014 – Present

computational paralinguistics

2013 – Present

Publications

A Multimodal Approach for Mania Level Prediction in Bipolar Disorder
Pınar Baki, Heysem Kaya, Elvan Çiftçi, Hüseyin Güleç, Albert Ali Salah
- 14 Nov 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Comparing Approaches for Explaining DNN-Based Facial Expression Classifications
Kaya ter Burg, Heysem Kaya
- 11 Nov 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The effects of gender bias in word embeddings on depression prediction
Gizem Sogancioglu, Heysem Kaya
- Published: 21 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 15 Feb 2026
- PAI4MH 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Speech Analysis for Automatic Mania Assessment in Bipolar Disorder
Pinar Baki, Heysem Kaya, Elvan Çiftçi, Hüseyin Güleç, Albert Ali Salah
- 2022 (modified: 10 Apr 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Towards using Breathing Features for Multimodal Estimation of Depression Severity
Francisca Pessanha, Heysem Kaya, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- ICMI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling, Recognizing, and Explaining Apparent Personality From Videos
Hugo Jair Escalante, Heysem Kaya, Albert Ali Salah, Sergio Escalera, Yagmur Güçlütürk, Umut Güçlü, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Júlio C. S. Jacques Júnior, Meysam Madadi, Stéphane Ayache, Evelyne Viegas, Furkan Gürpinar, Achmadnoer Sukma Wicaksana, Cynthia C. S. Liem, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob van Lier
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
End-to-End Modeling and Transfer Learning for Audiovisual Emotion Recognition in-the-Wild
Denis Dresvyanskiy, Elena Ryumina, Heysem Kaya, Maxim Markitantov, Alexey Karpov, Wolfgang Minker
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
3rd ICMI Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behaviour
Anika van der Klis, Heysem Kaya, Maryam Najafian, Saeid Safavi
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- ICMI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Federated learning for violence incident prediction in a simulated cross-institutional psychiatric setting
Thomas Borger, Pablo Mosteiro, Heysem Kaya, Emil Rijcken, Albert Ali Salah, Floortje Scheepers, Marco Spruit
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- Expert Syst. Appl. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Complex Paralinguistic Analysis of Speech: Predicting Gender, Emotions and Deception in a Hierarchical Framework
Alena Velichko, Maxim Markitantov, Heysem Kaya, Alexey Karpov
- 2022 (modified: 14 Nov 2022)
- INTERSPEECH 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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