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September 25, 2026 - GTU Office of Press and Public Relations — GTU, which participated in the ADEP and Research Universities Meeting hosted by METU, shared its innovative smart city project as a best practice, which develops solutions to climate change through artificial intelligence and digital twin infrastructure.
The Research Universities Support Program (ADEP) and Research Universities Meeting was held on September 17, 2026, hosted by Middle East Technical University (METU). At the panel attended by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, CoHE President Erol Özvar, and Strategy and Budget President İbrahim Şenel, evaluations were made regarding the progress of ADEP projects, their scientific and social impacts, and potential areas for improvement.
During the afternoon session of the event, which was attended by the rectors and research representatives of research universities and candidate universities, selected exemplary ADEP projects from all research universities were presented and evaluated.
On behalf of GTU, Prof. Arif Çağdaş Aydınoğlu, Director of the Institute of Transportation Technologies and faculty member in the Department of Geomatics Engineering, delivered a presentation on the project he leads, titled “Development of Smart City Applications for Climate Change Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in a Digital Twin Geographic Data Infrastructure" (Dijital İkiz Coğrafi Veri Altyapısında Yapay Zekâ Teknikleri ile İklim Değişikliğine Yönelik Akıllı Şehir Uygulamalarının Geliştirilmesi).
The presentation outlined an approach for integrating the multidimensional data generated by cities today through various sensors, cameras, lighting systems, and other technologies with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital twins, artificial intelligence, and data analytics and transforming this data into decision-support processes. The collaboration model through which smart city applications implemented in the campus environment using the GTU Smart Systems Test Infrastructure are developed with the contributions of other universities and industry representatives, as well as their potential for transforming scientific outputs into social benefits, was presented to the participants. |
