# Mehmet Onur Keskin - AI Researcher > AI researcher working on how autonomous agents can perceive, model, and adapt to human behavior in order to make better joint decisions. Research sits at the intersection of multi-agent systems, affective computing, and adaptive information retrieval. - **Website**: https://monurkeskin.com - **Full Context**: https://monurkeskin.com/llms-full.txt - **Google Scholar**: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jGrLNAEAAAAJ - **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monurkeskin - **X (Twitter)**: https://x.com/MehmetOnurKesk1 - **ORCID**: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8025-4304 - **Semantic Scholar**: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2086876375 - **Location**: Amsterdam, the Netherlands --- ## Research Focus Areas 1. **Multi-Agent Systems & Automated Negotiation**: Designing autonomous agents that model human preferences, arguments, and affective signals during real-time negotiations to reach mutually optimal agreements under uncertainty. 2. **Affective Perception & Continual Learning**: Converting nonverbal facial feedback (arousal and valence) into adaptive decision-making functions without catastrophic forgetting across repeated human-robot interactions. 3. **Adaptive Information Retrieval (RAG & Query Routing)**: Dynamic routing of queries across retrieval modalities (textual vs. multimodal) and architectures (dense vs. late-interaction) based on query characteristics. 4. **Embodied AI & Robotic Optimization**: Deploying decision-making and negotiation architectures on physical robotic platforms and complex real-world workflows. --- ## Academic Background & Visiting Positions - **M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence** *(summa cum laude)* - Ozyegin University, Interactive Intelligent Systems Lab (Advised by Dr. Reyhan Aydogan). - **TU Delft** (Interactive Intelligence Group, Prof. Catholijn Jonker): Multimodal human-agent negotiation with controlled human experiments. - **University of Cambridge** (Affective Intelligence & Robotics Lab, Prof. Hatice Gunes): Continual learning for facial expression-based adaptive negotiation strategies. - **Brown University** (E-GLAMOR Group, Prof. Amy Greenwald): Autonomous supply chain management, game-theoretic dispatching algorithms (Runner-up, IJCAI SCML 2021). - **Oregon State University** (CoRIS Institute, NSF REU Scholar, Prof. Yigit Menguc): Optimization algorithms for robotic 3D printing. --- ## Selected Publications - **[RetrievalRouter: Joint Modality and Architecture Selection for Document Retrieval](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#kuru2026retrievalrouter)** (EMNLP 2026) *Emre Kuru, Mehmet Onur Keskin, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi* - **[Personalized Affective Perception via Continual Learning in Human-Agent Negotiation](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#keskin2026personalized)** (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2026) *Mehmet Onur Keskin, Berk Buzcu, Nikhil Churamani, Reyhan Aydogan, Hatice Gunes, Catholijn M. Jonker* - **[Evaluating Modern RAG: Textual, Multimodal, Dense, and Late Interaction Pipelines](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#kuru2025evaluating)** (ACM SIGIR Workshop, 2025) *Emre Kuru, Mehmet Onur Keskin* (arXiv:2608.23176) - **[An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#keskin2025adaptive)** (ACM IVA 2025) *Mehmet Onur Keskin, Umut Çakan, Reyhan Aydogan* (DOI: 10.1145/3717511.3747087) - **[Taking into Account Opponent's Arguments in Human-Agent Negotiations](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#dogru2025taking)** (ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2025) *Anıl Doğru, Mehmet Onur Keskin, Reyhan Aydogan* (DOI: 10.1145/3691643) - **[NEGOTIATOR: A Comprehensive Framework for Human-Agent Negotiation Integrating Preferences, Interaction, and Emotion](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#keskin2024negotiator)** (IJCAI 2024) *Mehmet Onur Keskin, Berk Buzcu, Berkecan Koçyiğit, Umut Çakan, Anıl Doğru, Reyhan Aydogan* (DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2024/1012) - **[A Decentralized Token-Based Negotiation Approach for Multi-Agent Path Finding](https://monurkeskin.com/publications/#keskin2021decentralized)** (EUMAS 2021) *Mehmet Onur Keskin, Cihan Eran, Reyhan Aydogan* (Second Best Paper Award) --- ## Honors & Key Recognition - **Second Best Paper Award** - 18th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2021) - **1st Place Winner** - IBM Watson Human Multi-Agent Immersive Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020 - **Runner-up** - Supply Chain Management League at IJCAI 2021 (SCML 2021) - **IEEE CS Richard Merwin Student Scholarship** - **Young Researcher Participant** - Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) - **Best Research Assistant Award** - Ozyegin University --- ## Industry Experience - **Co-founder & CTO**, Kanzy Financial Technologies (London, UK): Built Finguru, an AI-assisted brokerage platform. Led agent orchestration, persistent memory, user preference modelling, and compliance reasoning. Supported by NVIDIA Inception and Google for Startups AI. --- ## Site Navigation - Home / About: https://monurkeskin.com/ - News: https://monurkeskin.com/news/ - Publications: https://monurkeskin.com/publications/ - CV: https://monurkeskin.com/cv/ - Full Context for LLMs: https://monurkeskin.com/llms-full.txt