Sibel Adalı

Sibel Adalı is a Turkish-American computer scientist who studies trust in social networks and uncertainty in decision-making. She is a professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the associate dean for research in the Rensselaer School of Science.

Education and career Adalı graduated in 1991 from Bilkent University, with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and information science. She went to the University of Maryland, College Park for her graduate studies in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, Query Processing in Heterogeneous Mediated Systems, was supervised by V. S. Subrahmanian.

She became a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996.

Book Adalı wrote the book Modeling Trust Context in Networks (Springer, 2013).

Personal Adalı maintains a website of Turkish poetry, with translations into many other languages.

She is the sister of electrical engineer Tülay Adalı.