Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, USA Ph.D., Computer Science Department Cum. GPA: N/A
May 1997 – August 2000
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Cum. GPA: 3.59/4.00
Aug 1995 – May 1997
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science GPA: 3.53/4.00
Oct 1988 – May 1993
Ege University Izmir, Turkey B.S., Computer Engineering GPA: 78/100
Graduate Course Profile
Technology and Applications for the Information Age Advanced Web Technologies Multimedia Information systems
Object-Oriented Design Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Computer Architecture Design and Analysis of Algorithms Principles of Operating Systems
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Expert Systems Structured Programming and Formal Methods Theories of Computation and Complexity
PROJECTS
Student Records and Assessment System for Course Support
A course management system with online public interfaces and a database back-end to provide an environment for both students and teachers to exchange course information over the Internet.
Used technologies: Java Servlets, JDBC, and XML/XSL; multi-tier Web architecture.
Actively used by students in on-campus and off-campus courses given by NPAC, Syracuse University.
Instructor: Geoffrey C. Fox, gcf@npac.syr.edu
An Interface to a Real Time Signal Processing System
A multi-window and -threaded Windows interface application to a real-time signal processing system, which were developed by two teams, software and hardware.
Managed the software team of one undergraduate and two graduate students.
Written in Borland C++ Builder 4.0 with database connectivity.
Advisor: Kivanc Dincer, dincer@tubitak.gov.tr
Object-Oriented Database Management System
A complete database management system developed in C++.
Implements object-oriented schema definitions, and a simple object-oriented query language in accordance with OMG standards.
Instructor: Roger Chen, rchen@cat.syr.edu.
Visualization of the Periodic Table of the Elements
Performs element information queries and 3-D solar modeling of the elements' atoms in VRML.
NetBoard, A Collaboratory Whiteboard for the Internet
An environment to develop, save, and browse course materials on the Internet.
Developed using Java and CGI programming with Perl.
Instructor: Roger Chen, rchen@cat.syr.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Sen, M, Balsoy, O, Fox, G.C. and McCracken, N.J., "Course Management: A Complete Asynchronous Environment Architecture in
Education," Webnet 99 Abstracts book - p.86, WebNet 99, World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Honolulu, Hawaii
AWARDS RECEIVED
Chairperson of the Syracuse University ACM Student Chapter, Fall 96-Spring 98.
Teaching and Graduate Assistantships through Fall 96 to Fall 99 at Syracuse University and Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY.
Awarded scholarship for Master's study abroad by the Ministry of Education, the Republic of Turkey.
Awarded scholarship for high school by TUBITAK, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.
WORK EXPERIENCE
August 2000 – present
School of Computational Science and Information Technologies Tallahassee, FL, USA
Teaching assistant for various courses given by NPAC, Syracuse University, to teach students the basic programming skills and languages that are needed to implement distributed Web applications
such as, CPS 606 Programming for the Web CPS 616 Computational Science for Information Applications ECS 400 Software Technologies
June 1999 – August 1999
Baskent University Computer Engineering Department Ankara, Turkey
Project Manager/Instructor
Managed a software project mentioned in Projects above.
Given a series of seminars in recent Web technologies such as ActiveX and OLE, JavaScript, Java, HTML, XML, Java Servlets, and CORBA.
October 1993 – August 1994
Ege University Computer Center Izmir, Turkey
Systems Programmer
Developed software on an IBM 3090 VM/SP CMS mainframe.
Installed and maintained the Internet services (i.e. WWW, gopher, FTP) of the university on the DEC Alpha AXP workstations and the IBM mainframe.
IBM Technical Education. Formal Training on VSE/SP and CICS.
May 1993 – August 1993
Chronicle AS Izmir, Turkey
Programmer
Worked in a group project developing a patient information database for dentists using Visual Basic and Paradox Database Engine.
July 1992 – August 1992
Petkim AS Izmir, Turkey
Summer Internship
Developed a database maintenance program of expenses employees make in recreation areas to deduct from payrolls using VSE/CICS, SQL and PL/1.
January 1992 – September 1993
Distas AS Izmir, Turkey
Part-time LAN Manager, Programmer
Responsible for the setup and maintenance of the company's local area network running Novell Netware 3.12.
Developed software in Visual Basic over the network.
June 1991 – December 1992
Ege University Computer Center Izmir, Turkey
Lab Instructor
Consulted people in public courses teaching how to use PC-DOS, BASIC, and MS Windows.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Web Technologies
Internet servers, install and management of a complete site, experience with NCSA, Apache, and MS IIS Web servers, Washington University FTP server.
