News

- I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Institution Department of Plant Biology, Stanford,CA since August 2007. I have started the development of PlantCyc, a comprehensive reference database of plant metabolic pathways to host PGDBs (Pathway Genome Databases) of all sequenced plant species.

- I defended my thesis on August 2007.

- I presented our paper at KDD 2007 Mining Multiple Information Sources workshop on August 12th.

Research interests

- Very Large and High Dimensional Databases and Scientific Data Mining.

- Detection of Structural Sites in Proteins, Paper published in Bioinformatics journal, 2007 (documentation and software website).

- Indexing and Approximate Similarity for Bio Sequences and Structures.

Education

- PhD, August 2007, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

Advisor: Dr. Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Dissertation Title: Feature Extraction and Similarity-Based Analysis for Proteome and Genome Databases

Research Assistantship, database research group.

- MS, 2002, CSE, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)

Specialization: Natural Language Processing, Speech Synthesis and recognition

Research Assistantship, Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)

- BS, 2000,CS, Bilkent University

- High School,1996, Ankara Fen Lisesi

Contact Info

e-mail:
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Cellular phone:
(614) 805-4370

Address:
1929 Crisanto Ave Apt 1005
Mountain View, CA 94040-1835 USA