Sibel Adalı is a Turkish-American computer scientist who studies trust in

social network A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

s and uncertainty in decision-making. She is a professor of computer science at

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

, and associate dean for research at Rensselaer.

Education and career

Adalı graduated in 1991 from

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

, with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and information science. She went to the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

for her graduate studies in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, ''Query Processing in Heterogeneous Mediated Systems'', was supervised by V. S. Subrahmanian. She became a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996.

Book

Adalı wrote the book ''Modeling Trust Context in Networks'' (Springer, 2013).

Personal

Adalı maintains a web site of Turkish poetry, with translations into many other languages. She is the sister of electrical engineer

Tülay Adalı Tülay Adalı is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion.

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