Faculty Member, PhD
Tuğrul Cabir Hakyemez
Education
Ph.D. in Management Information Systems 2022
Boğaziçi University
Thesis: Developing a Dynamic Predictive Policing System
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bertan Badur
M.A. in Management Information Systems 2015
Sakarya University
Thesis: Designing a Decision Support System for Predicting First-Year Student Academic Performance (in Turkish)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Erman Coşkun
B.S. in Industrial Engineering 2011
Sakarya University
Courses
Current Courses
- Data Analytics for Business (MIS 303)
- Startup Design Project (BUS 445)
- Intermediate Programming (MIS 102)
- Management Support Systems and Business Intelligence (MIS 402)
Previously Taught (İstanbul Bilgi University)
- Business Information Systems (MIS 202)
- Machine Learning for Managerial Decision Making (MIS 315)
- Information Systems Project 1 & 2 (MIS 497/498)
Areas of Interest
- Spatiotemporal Data Analysis
- Graph Learning
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Urban Analytics
- Data Science
- Predictive Maintenance
- Graduate Employability
Rewards and Achievements
Istanbul Bilgi University 2025
Outstanding Faculty Award
TÜBA – TEKNOFEST Doctoral Science Award 2024
First Prize – Social Sciences and Humanities
Boğaziçi University, Scientific Research Commission 2022
Ph.D. Thesis Award
Other Information
Refereed Journal Articles
Dedeoğlu, Çağdaş, Hakyemez, T. C., & Taylor, B. (2026). Beyond Religious-Secular Divides: Dark Green Religion, Islam, and Environmental Behavior in Türkiye. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ESCI).
Hakyemez, T. C., & Badur, B. (2026). Enhancing deep learning-based crime hotspot predictions with theory-based environmental risk scores. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 19(1), 39. (SSCI)
Hakyemez, T. C., & Badur, B. (2023). Incorporating park events into crime hotspot prediction on street networks: A spatiotemporal graph learning approach. Applied Soft Computing, 148, 110886. (SCI-E)
Hakyemez, T. C., & Badur, B. (2021). Crime risk stations: Examining spatiotemporal influence of urban features through distance-aware risk signal functions. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(7), 472. (SCI-E)
Hakyemez, T. C., & Mardikyan, S. (2021). The interplay between institutional integration and self-efficacy in the academic performance of first-year university students: A multigroup approach. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(1), 100430. (SSCI)
Hakyemez, T. C., Babaoglu, C., & Basar, A. (2023). Putting spatial crime patterns in their social contexts through a contextualized colocation analysis. GeoJournal, 1–21. (ESCI)
Akar, E., Hakyemez, T. C., Bozanta, A., & Akar, S. (2022). What sells on the fake news market? Examining the impact of contextualized rhetorical features on the popularity of fake tweets. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 12(1), e202201. (ESCI)
Ozturan, M., Alacam, S., Coskun-Setirek, A., Hakyemez, T. C., Kebapci, H., Ozturk, E., & Tasan, E. (2017). A citizen-centric integrated information system for municipalities. Journal of Public Administration and Governance, 175–197.
Akkaya, A., Hakyemez, T. C., Kutbay, E., & Bayraktar, B. K. How does students’ learning (achievement) relate to their level of we-intention and their learning methods on Facebook? Yönetim Bilişim Sistemleri Dergisi, 2(2), 61–69.
International Conference Proceedings
Hakyemez, T. C., & Adar, O. (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of hyperparameter optimization algorithms for short-term electricity load forecasting. In Proceedings of IEEE ICECER 2025, December 6–8, Madagascar.
Hakyemez, T. C., Bozanta, A., & Coşkun, M. (2018). K-Means vs. Fuzzy C-Means: A comparative analysis of two popular clustering techniques on the featured mobile applications benchmark. Proceedings of 5th International MIS Conference, 1–21, Ankara.
Hakyemez, T. C., & Coskun, E. (2014). A data mining approach towards predicting the academic success of students based on demographic features and high school education parameters. GIBA Conference, 708–713.
Hakyemez, T. C., Cekici, T., & Gundogan, T. (2013). Extreme logistics: Comparison with traditional logistics services and an overview of the situation in Turkey. IX. Logistics and Supply Chain Congress.
Preprints
Hakyemez, T. C., & Adar, O. (2024). Testing the efficacy of hyperparameter optimization algorithms in short-term load forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15047.