Editorial & Other Services

Editorial Activities

• Editorial Board Member: Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2023 - Present.
• Associate Editor: Journal of Probability and Statistical Sciences, 2007 - 2013 & 2021- Present.
• Associate Editor: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2008 - 2016.
• Editorial Board Member: Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, 2007 - 2012.
• Scientific Advisory Board Member for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), 2007 and Abstract reviewer for OHBM 2007.

Professional Service

• NASEM (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) Volunteer, 2023 - Present.
• AI@AU Research Committee Member, September 2022 - Present.
• American Statistical Association AL-MS Chapter - Auburn University Representative, September 2022 - Present.
• Planning Committee Member of NASEM AI-Biological Data Workshop "Engaging Scientists to Prevent Harmful Exploitation of Advanced Data Analytics and Biological Data --- A Workshop Series", 2022-2023 (co-organized and attended at the first workshop on 11/15/2022 and second workshop on 02/09/2023).
• Reviewer for the Simons Collaboration Grants, 2022.
• Seminar Organizer: Organized Statistics and Data Science Seminars at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Fall 2020 & Spring 2022.
• Expert reviewer for the 2016 evaluation of H2020 MSCA IF - MAT proposals.
• Member of Board of Directors of IASC-ERS (International Association for Statistical Computing- European Regional Section), 2012-2016.
• Reviewer Panel/Jury Member for TUBITAK Projects, 2011-2013.
• Substitute council member of the Turkish Statistical Society (Turk İstatistik Derneği) October, 2010 - 2016.
• External consultant/reviewer for TUBITAK Projects, 2010, 2011, 2012.
• Department Chair, March 10, 2010- March 10, 2011.
• Contact Member for the Turkish language in the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms Project, 2008 - Present. (see http://isi.cbs.nl/glossary.htm).
• Faculty Council Member as assistant professor for the Sciences Faculty Council at Koc University, 2008 - 2011.
• Faculty Council Member as assistant professor for the Arts and Sciences Faculty Council at Koc University, 2006 - 2008.

Organizational Activities

• Seminar Organizer: Organized Statistics and Data Science Seminars at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Fall 2020 & Spring 2022.
• Deputy Director at SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute), RTP, NC, 2017-2019. Organized or co-organized numerous undergraduate workshops, professional development workshops, workshops for URMs, research workshops under year-long programs.
• Co-organizer (with A. Manukyan) of the Invited Session titled "Instance and Graph Based Learning from High Dimensional Data" at the International Conference on Information Complexity and Statistical Modeling in High Dimensions with Applications, Cappadocia, Turkey, May 18-21, 2016.
• Organizer of the Special Topic Session 72 (STS072) titled "Graph theoretic methods for spatial data analysis" at the 59th International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China, August 25-30, 2013.
• Scientific Programme Committee member and co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee of 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012.
• Scientific Programme Committee and co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee member of Pre-world-congress Meeting of Young Researchers in Probability and Statistics 2012 (PWCYPS 2012), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 6-8, 2012
• Scientific Programme Committee member and Chair of an Invited Session at NEDETAS (New Developments in Theory and Applications of Statistics) Conference, Ankara, Turkey, May 2-4, 2011.
• Scientific Programme Committee member at the 3rd International Conference of the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Working Group on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM 10), London, UK, December 10-12, 2010.
• Organizer and Chair for the Session (ES27) titled "Analysis of spatial data: estimation, modelling, and inference" at the 3rd International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM 10), London, UK, December 10-12, 2010.
• Organizer and Chair for Invited Paper Meeting 35 (IPM35) titled "Spatial Statistics: Recent Advances in Epidemiological Applications" at the 57th Session of the ISI, Durban, South Africa, August 16-22, 2009.
• Organizing Committee Member for the 21st National Mathematics Symposium. Istanbul, Turkey, September 1-4, 2008.
• Seminar Organizer: Co-organized Math-Sci Seminars at College of Arts and Sciences, Koc University, Fall 2006 --- Spring 2007.

Refereeing Activities

•  Refereeing for Journals:
  Risk Analysis, 2023; Statistics & Probability Letters, 2022; TEST, 2022; Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2021; International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2021; Pattern Recognition, 2021; Journal of Spatial Science, 2021; Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, 2020; Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2019; Involve, 2018; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2016; Journal of Applied Statistics, 2015; Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2013; JABES, 2013;  Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 2013, 2019;  SERRA, 2013; Biometrical Journal, 2010;  Annals of Applied Statistics, 2010; Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2005, 2007, 2009(x3), 2010, 2011(x3), 2014; Journal of Forestry Faculty of Istanbul University (in Turkish, İstanbul Universitesi Orman Fakultesi Dergisi), 2010; Math World Magazine (in Turkish, Matematik Dunyası Dergisi), 2010; Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2009; Computational Statistics, 2009; International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2009; Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, 2009; Journal of Statistical Research (in Turkish, İstatistik Araştırma Dergisi), 2008, 2009, 2011(x2); Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2008; Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2007; Discrete Mathematics, 2006;
  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2006; Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 2004, 2010(x2).
•  Reviewed 17 articles, 1 chapter, and 2 books for Mathematical Reviews, 2008 - 2017.

Professional Membership

• Member of International Exchange Alumni, 2017- Present.
• Member of WAYS (World Association of Young Scientists), 2015- Present.
• Member of ICoRSA (International Consortium of Research Staff Associations), 2015- Present.
• Marie Curie Alumni Association, 2014 - Present.
• The Young Statistician Group in The IASC, 2014 - 2017.
• Bernoulli Society January, 2012 - 2016.
• TIES (The International Environmetrics Society) January, 2012 - 2016, 2019 - Present.
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 2005, October 2011 - 2016 and SIAG (SIAM Activity Group) on Uncertainty Quantification January, 2012 - 2016.
• IAENG (International Association of Engineers), 2010 - Present.
• TMD (Turkish Mathematical Society, in Turkish, Turk Matematik Derneği), 2007 - 2016.
• AMS (American Mathematical Society), 2007 - 2019.
• IASC-ISI (The International Association for Statistical Computing-A Section of the International Statistical Institute), 2007 - 2017.
• IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics), 2003 - Present.
• ISI (International Statistics Institute), 2007 - Present.
• ASA (American Statistical Association), 1999 - 2004, 2017-Present.
• The Classification Society, 2022 - 2023.

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