BACKGROUND

Born: 1969, Adana, Turkey.

Education 1975-1980 LÜTFIYE KISACIK PRIMARY SCHOOL. 1980-1987 ADANA ANATOLIA HIGH SCHOOL. 1987-1991 BS Degree MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (METU), Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Ankara, Turkey. 1992-1994 MS Degree SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (SU), Computer and Information Science Department (CIS). 1994-1998 PhD SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (SU) Computer and Information Science Department (CIS). Thesis: Shape Matching Using Genetic Algorithms. Still learning...

Employment Fall 91-Research Assistant-METU Fall 94-Grader-Computer Architecture-SU Fall 95-Graduate Assistant-Artificial Intelligence-SU Spring 96-Graduate Assistant-Expert Systems-SU Summer 96-Graduate Assistant-Computer Graphics-SU Fall 97-Graduate Assistant-Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms-SU Spring 97-Graduate Assistant-Design and Analysis of Algorithms-SU May 97-May 98-Programmer, Researcher-BlackWatch Tecnologies, Inc. Summer 98-Research Assistant-Particle Swarm Optimization-SU Fall 99-Systems Programming and Assembly, Theory of Algorithms-YU 1998-present Assistant Professor Yeditepe University (YU), Department of Computer Engineering (CSE). Adjunct faculty in Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (MEEM) Program at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA.

More Publications, technical reports, thesis supervised Memberships and Refereeing Member of International Society for Interdisciplinary Scheduling Member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) Program Committee, 2004 Member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Program Committee, 2003-2004 IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems for the term 2003-2006 Ongoing R&D My resume: PDF format

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