Almila Akdag Salah is an Assoc. Prof. at Istanbul Sehir University, and a lecturer at Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. She studied at the Art History Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), focusing on technoscience art and its place in the art historical canon. She was one of the first Digital Humanities Fellows of UCLA. Upon completing her Ph.D., she became a Postdoctoral researcher with the Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) – Knowledge Space Lab project, which contributed to the new research area of maps of science. Almila joined the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam, New Media Studies) with an NWO VENI grant on the online art platform deviantArt. She was associated with the e-Humanities group at KNAW and was a Management Committee member for the FP7 COST project KNOWeSCAPE on knowledge spaces. She is currently the Visual Media and Interactivity WG leader at DARIAH (the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), and a member of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), Low Countries.
She collaborates with Lev Manovich (CUNY), Albert Ali Salah (Utrecht University, Social and Affective Computing), Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Department of Informatics) among others. In 2017, she worked at the Nagoya University's Department of Social Informatics as a visiting fellow with Kazushisa Todayama and Minao Kukita on ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital Humanities & Digital Art History
Image analysis, automatic emotion detection.
Social Media
Visual culture, social network analysis.
Data Mining & Visualization
Text mining and analysis, big data visualization.
Archival Sciences & Bibliometrics
Evolution of knowledge orders, scientometrics, citation networks
Social AI
AI Ethics, Social media applications of AI, Digital Humanities & AI
PROJECTS
DeviantArt + artworks
Image analysis, automatic emotion detection.
DeviantArt + Culture
Visual culture, social network analysis, social media metrix.
DeviantArt + Networks
Complex networks, text mining and analysis, big data visualization.
Scientific Collaborations
Scientometrics, citation networks, evaluation of scientific groups
Knowledge Space Lab
Analysis and evolution of knowledge orders, Wikipedia & UDC
EDUCATION
AFFILIATIONS
Sehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
ASSOC. PROF.
DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEDIA
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Utrecht university, Utrecht, Holland
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
University of california, los angeles
2008 PHD Department of Art History
Istanbul technical university
2002 MA Department of Art History
1998 BA Department of Industrial Design
1994 ST. Georg österreıchısche schule