Mustafa Sert received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He has been an assistant professor of computer engineering at the Baskent University. He has research interests in theory and applications of audio signal processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, and multimedia databases. He mainly focuses on semantic content extraction from audio and video data, audio scene recognition, video concept detection, multimodality, and content modeling for multimedia search and retrieval. He serves in technical reviewing and organization committees of several international conferences including VLDB 2012, FUZZ-IEEE 2015, IEEE ISM (2008-2009, 2017), FQAS 2009, IEEE ICSC 2016-2017, IEEE IRC 2017, and IEEE BigMM 2016. He also serves as a reviewer of the IEEE&ACM TASLP, IEEE SPL, Springer MTAP, Springer SIVP, and IEEE TFS. Dr. Sert is senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society