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Postdoctoral researcher
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Betül Bayrak is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from NTNU in 2025, where her dissertation focused on counterfactual explanations and evaluations. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Çankaya University (2020) and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Gazi University (2017). Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), with a particular focus on instance-based explanations and evaluation, and on integrating uncertainty quantification with explainability methods for temporal data.