Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in City and Regional Planning, Dokuz Eylül University — working where computational spatial science, GIScience, remote sensing and operational urban resilience meet.
A plan is only as good as what a municipality can actually run on Monday morning. So the question I keep returning to is a practical one:
Which parts of planning can be made reproducible — and what does a city gain in resilience and equity when they are?
That takes two forms. Research: evacuation accessibility, seismic road-network vulnerability, urban heat and green-space equity, flood mapping, computer vision for walkability (SAM 3), multi-objective infrastructure optimisation. And tooling: PyQGIS plugins that put those methods in a planner's hands, where they are run by people who will never open a notebook.
| 27 plugins published on the QGIS Plugin Hub |
4 funded projects · World Bank, TÜBİTAK, ministry, metropolitan |
İzmir the metropolitan region most of it is tested on |
Open methods, code and data released to be re-run |
Four lines of work. Each one starts from a question a municipality has actually asked, and ends in something that can be re-run on another city.
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When the network breaks, who cannot reach safety? Evacuation accessibility, seismic road-network vulnerability, post-disaster routing and multi-hazard decision support. Methods · NetworkX · OSMnx · graph accessibility under shock · F-BWM prioritisation |
Where is the city hottest, and for whom? Multiscale urban heat vulnerability, Local Climate Zone modelling, forest-cover dynamics and adaptation diagnostics. Methods · Sentinel-1/2 · Landsat · LCZ classification · MGWR · SHAP |
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Is the park within reach, or only nearby on the map? Park service areas, green-space accessibility justice, microclimate cooling regulation and distributional equity. Methods · network service areas · landscape structure metrics · equity indices |
Can a planner run this without writing a line of code? PyQGIS plugin ecosystems, CAD-grade planning tools, parametric settlement generation, automated zoning production and spatial database design. Methods · PyQGIS · Processing providers · PostGIS · headless test suites on two QGIS runtimes |
Multi-Objective Optimization of Urban Service Facility Location
Where public services should go, settled by evolutionary optimisation (NSGA-II) and network routing rather than by rule of thumb — holding cost efficiency, spatial equity, environmental sustainability and system resilience against each other at once, rather than optimising one and calling the rest a constraint.
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🌐 Resilient İzmir Urban Vulnerability & Multi-Hazard Systems Assessment |
Urban Resilience & Spatial Data Specialist World Bank STC · financed by the EU (TAFF), implemented by the World Bank & AFAD |
Tiered metropolitan multi-hazard risk assessment — |
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🏬 İzmir Earthquake Master Plan Working Group 6 — Urban-Regional Planning & Zoning Applications |
Lead GeoAI Data Scientist & Spatial Analyst İzmir Metropolitan Municipality / academic consortium |
Data engineering and GeoAI land-use suitability modelling (XGBoost with SHAP, so the model can be argued with), functional vulnerability and road-network accessibility simulation (NetworkX, OSMnx), and emergency assembly-area optimisation (PuLP, PostGIS) across 11 central districts. |
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🏛️ YER-SİS Phase 2 Türkiye Urban & Rural Settlement Systems Study |
Data Science & GIS Specialist Ministry of Industry & Technology, Directorate General of Development Agencies |
Multi-dimensional settlement hierarchy classification and ML typology clustering (PCA, K-means) over a six-dimension indicator framework — production, service delivery, intermediation, accessibility, social capacity, environmental vulnerability — across 6 pilot districts in Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep and Kilis. |
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📌 TÜBİTAK 1001 2025–2027 |
Researcher TÜBİTAK |
Determining road-network vulnerability and the accessibility of critical urban areas during earthquakes, through a GIS-based method. |
Complete catalogue of open-science research companions, manuscript repositories, and computational spatial models.
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Phantom Capacity in Urban Pedestrian Networks: An AI-Assisted Approach to Functional Walkability Using Street View Imagery and SAM 3. Zero-shot panoptic obstacle segmentation using Meta's SAM 3 model to measure Effective Clear Width (ECW).
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Dual Friction Mapping of Urban Pedestrian Spaces. Sidewalk-level pedestrian friction modeling using street-view visual analytics, geospatial indicators, and Geographically Neural Network Weighted Regression (GNNWR).
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Climate-Morphology-Forest Architecture Analytics. Cloud-native monitoring of forest canopy dynamics, landscape structure, risk mapping, and explainable climate drivers.
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Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Susceptibility Modelling. Geospatial vulnerability, land-cover dynamics, and multi-hazard exposure assessment for Aegean and Mediterranean coastal basins.
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Decadal Evolution of GIS in Disaster Management and Risk Assessment. Systematic bibliometric mapping, disaster response synthesis, and emergency risk screening.
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Open research companion: mapping daytime urban heat exposure across Local Climate Zones (LCZ) with cloud-local data cubes, multi-scale MGWR, and heat-justice planning in İzmir. (Under Review at Cities)
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Open-source QGIS urban analytics for climate-resilience screening: A two-stage explainable and robust prioritization of urban fabrics using XGBoost, SHAP, and TOPSIS.
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Open RF-FLUS cellular automata and multi-hazard exposure modelling for the North Aegean Basin, Türkiye.
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Rapid flood extent mapping & exposure assessment using Sentinel-1/2 SAR/Optical imagery, GEE, and Machine Learning in Küçük Menderes Basin. (Natural Hazards, 2026)
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Open-source PyQGIS tools, CAD drafting utilities, spatial analytics, and procedural 3D urban engines.
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Comprehensive spatial-planning toolbox for QGIS — data import, spatial statistics, zoning workflows, and urban-design analysis in one ecosystem.
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Drafting-grade CAD for urban planning inside QGIS — 25+ drawing tools, AutoCAD-style command line, and road platform design.
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CAD-grade tangent arc fillet tool for QGIS — live radius preview, automatic trimming, and precise road intersection arc alignment.
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Multi-criteria spatial decision analysis (MCDA) for QGIS — AHP, ANP, TOPSIS, VIKOR, ELECTRE, WLC, fuzzy membership, and sensitivity analysis.
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Spatial statistics lab for QGIS planning workflows — Hotspot Analysis, LISA, Spatial Gini, GWR/MGWR, and spatial model comparison.
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Spatiotemporal data cubes for QGIS — xarray/Dask processing, Emerging Hotspot Analysis, time-series forecasting, and voxel rendering.
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Publication-grade cartography for QGIS — native 2.5D building extrusion, bivariate choropleths, Value-by-Alpha, cartograms, and ridge maps.
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One click from OpenStreetMap to a living 3D city in browser — procedural buildings, roads, traffic, trees, water, and theme styling.
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One-click OpenStreetMap into native QGIS — function-styled vector layers with 3D building massing across 12 cartographic themes.
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Parametric settlement-plan generation pipeline for parcels, building footprints, parking, courtyards, and landscape components.
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Parametric Generative Design & Multi-Objective Urban Physics Engine for QGIS — algorithmic generative massing and microclimate simulation framework.
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Relational database schema, table structures, and PyQGIS survey workflow for consistent land-use / land-cover inventorying across QGIS desktop and QField / Input mobile apps.
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- Phantom Capacity in Urban Pedestrian Networks: An AI-Assisted Approach to Functional Walkability Using Street View Imagery and SAM 3
Under Review, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Hilmi Evren Erdin, Nurseli Şanlı. - Dual Friction Mapping of Urban Pedestrian Spaces
Manuscript, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Kemal Mert Çubukçu. - Diagnosing Urban Heat Vulnerability through Multiscale Spatial Modelling: Evidence from Istanbul for Climate-Resilient Cities
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, H. M. Çelik. - Decadal Evolution of GIS in Disaster Management and Risk Assessment
International Journal of Engineering and Geosciences, 10(2), 173-196, 2025. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Ç. Tarhan. - Mapping Daytime Urban Heat Exposure across Local Climate Zones with Multi-Scale MGWR
Under Review at Cities, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu.
- Cloud-Native Monitoring of Forest Change in Bursa (1990-2020): Risk Mapping and Explainable Drivers
In Urban Resilience: Disasters, Climate, and Spatial Strategies, İksad Yayınevi, 2025. - Evaluating Spatial Equity in Urban Park Accessibility: A GIS-Based Analysis of the İzmir Gulf Region, Türkiye
In Architectural Sciences and Sustainable Approaches: Urban Resilience, İksad Yayınevi, 2025. - Revealing Urban Cooling Dynamics through Landscape Structure and Equity Diagnostics: A Multiscale Analysis of Park-Based Microclimate Regulation in the İzmir Gulf Region
In Landscape Research V, Livre de Lyon, 2025. - Assessing and Mapping Urban Green Spaces: A Novel Methodological Approach Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing
In Smart Buildings and Cities with Remote Sensing and GIS, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2025.
Spatial & Analytical Methods:
Computer Vision (SAM 3, Panoptic Segmentation) · GNNWR · Network Analysis · Accessibility & Service-Area Modeling · Remote Sensing (Sentinel-1/2, Landsat) · Spatial Statistics (MGWR, LISA, OLS, PCA) · Multi-Objective Optimization (NSGA-II) · Explainable AI (SHAP, XGBoost) · Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (AHP, TOPSIS, VIKOR) · Spatiotemporal Data Cubes (xarray/Dask) · PyQGIS Plugin Development · Spatial Database Design · Google Apps Script & Cloud Workflows.
Computational tools for resilient infrastructure, spatial justice, and climate-sensitive urban planning.