He has co-authored over 150 publications on pattern recognition, multimodal interfaces, and computer analysis of human behavior. Albert has received the inaugural EBF European Biometrics Research Award (2006), Boğaziçi University Foundation’s Award of Research Excellence (2014), and the BAGEP Award of the Science Academy (2016). He serves as a Steering Board member of ACM ICMI, as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, and Int. Journal on Human-Computer Studies, and as the Chair of the Data for Refugees Challenge (D4R – http://d4r.turktelekom.com.tr) Organization Committee. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM.