She is also the Assistant Director of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She received her B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey. After working 2 years as a software engineer, she stated her graduate study in 2002 and received her M.S. (Computer Science) in 2005 and Ph.D. (Computer Science) in 2010 from University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Her research was supevised by Dr. Roger Zimmermann and Dr. Seon Ho Kim. Her research interests include large-scale geospatial data management and indexing, sensor-rich video annotation and search, and mobile video management. Sakire Arslan Ay is a member of ACM.