Caglar Yildirim

Research interests

• Human-computer interaction
• Applied machine learning
• Data visualization
• Games

Education

• PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Iowa State University
• MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Iowa State University

Biography

Caglar Yildirim is an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on human-computer interaction, mixed reality, data visualization, games, and applied machine learning. Yildirim is a member of the Data Visualization Lab and has served on the Khoury Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and the Khoury MSCS Curriculum Committee at Northeastern.

Yildirim earned his doctorate and master’s in human-computer interaction from Iowa State University. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2019, he was an assistant professor at State University of New York at Oswego, where he directed the Virtual Reality Lab and taught in the HCI graduate program. Notable journals Yildirim has published in include CHI 2021, IEE AIVR and IEEE GEM. Outside of research and teaching, he loves to cook and bake.

Labs and groups

• Data Visualization

Recent publications