Department website renewal
The website is being reorganized with a restrained academic design and expanded information on the department, education, people, research, students, and prospective students.
News & Events
Department News and Announcements
Academic events, department notices, student announcements, and selected achievements are published here.
Students present medical AI research at the CVPR 2026 Med-Reasoner Workshop
Alperen Demirci and Bora Dere, students in Hacettepe University’s Artificial Intelligence Engineering undergraduate program, together with Computer Engineering student Ezel Bayraktar, presented their joint research at the Medical Reasoning with Vision-Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner) Workshop, held in conjunction with CVPR 2026 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Their paper, “When the Right Answer Is Missing: Probing Hallucination in Medical Reasoning Models via NOTA Evaluation”, investigates whether medical vision-language models can recognize when a correct answer is unavailable and how reliably they avoid hallucinating under such conditions.
The study was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Erkut Erdem and Prof. Dr. Aykut Erdem and appears in the CVPR 2026 Workshop Proceedings.
New academic structure
The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering operates within the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences alongside the Department of Computer Engineering.
Undergraduate curriculum development
The revised curriculum emphasizes strong foundations, coordinated laboratory courses, data engineering, ML systems, research practice, and flexible technical electives.
Hacettepe and ASELSAN advance joint AI research through ASELABS
Building on the 2025 agreement to establish the ASELSAN–Artificial Intelligence Laboratory under the ASELABS Program, Hacettepe University and ASELSAN signed contracts for three joint projects to be conducted within the laboratory. The collaboration brings together academic expertise and industrial research capabilities to support applied research and technology development in artificial intelligence.