NPAC Graduate Student Agreement Form

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) Graduate Student Agreement Form

Date: Dec 1998 - Sept 16, 1996

Name: Mehmet Sen

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Mailing Address: 116 Blossom Road Apt 3 Syracuse NY 13224

Email address: msen7@npac.syr.edu

Gender: Male

Citizenship: Turkish

(eg US National, Indian, Chinese, Polish, German, Egyptian, Turkish, Scottish, Australian... )

Visa Status: J1

(eg J1, H1,..., US National)

SU Academic Department affiliation: CIS

(eg Physics, CIS,...)

Degrees earned: MS, Syracuse University, December 1996

BS, Bilkent University, June 1992

(Name of Institution and Date awarded)

Current Academic Status at SU: doing PhD

(eg doing masters, doing PhD)

Date Course Work Started: January 95

Anticipated Comprehensive Examination Date: Taken

Anticipated Masters graduation Date:graduated at December 96

Anticipated PhD graduation Date: December 1999

Total Number of Tuition Hours to Complete Current Degree:

Number of Tuition Hours needed for Fall: 9

Number of Tuition Hours needed for Spring:9

Number of Tuition Hours needed for Summer:6

Name of NPAC Project leader: Nancy J. McCracken

(the NPAC person mainly associated with you and your work)

Full Name of Academic Advisor: Geoffrey C. Fox

Full Name of Thesis/Dissertation Director: Geoffrey C. Fox

Full Names of Thesis/Dissertation Committee Members:

List all Completed SU Courses and Grade Earned:

CIS554 (C++) A, CIS657 A, CIS655 A, CIS710 (Parall Prog.) A, CIS675 A-, CIS625(Comp. Graphics) A-, CPS616 A, CIS623 A, CIS600(Comput. Geometry) A, CIS720(Theory of Computation) A, CSE791 Multimedia Information Systems A-, CIS667 Artificial Intelligence A , CSE687 Object Oriented Design A-, CIS666 Expert Systems A, CIS Independent Study A, CPS714 Advanced Web Technologies A

List all SU Courses you EXPECT to Take: Dissertation credits, Audit courses

Dissertation Credits

List your PhD Reading List (if applicable):

Dissertation Topic / Title: Data Mining & Web Based Education (Thesis Dissertation)

(State whether this a Masters or Thesis Dissertation)

Career Goals: computer applications

industry-academia

(Please specify: Type of position sought eg computer applications area or computer development area; type of environment sought eg academia, research lab, industry and location eg USA, home country or other country)

Areas of your specialization: Data Mining, algorithms, Web Based Education Systems, Assessment & Questionnaires,
databases,
(multimedia or distributed systems and network)

(eg software, hardware, systems, algorithms, more detail if possible...indicate what you are good at and interested in)

Project assignments:

Improving Student Records Database System. Continue on Data Mining and assessment architectures for Education Systems using web server logs on specific course materials.

Continue on helping to education programs, e.g. Grading System,& Study on Data Mining; writing programs in Java, preparing html pages, CGI programs, Database program, etc.

OLD: Converting Grading System to JDBC, (possibly using Enterprise Java Beans later). Preparing Data Mining and assessment architectures for Education Systems using web server logs on specific course materials.

OLD: Managing Windows NT workstations, Developing education programs; writing programs in Java, preparing html pages, CGI programs, Database program, security systems.

(Describe any special duties that you have outside thesis work that are currently assigned to you, eg Mosaic, HPFA, foils developement, software development for parallel systems, please give as much detail as possible...)

On what NPAC Main project(s) are you currently working: Education programs & Data Mining

Name of associated NPAC project leader(s): Nancy J. McCracken

On what NPAC Service activities are you currently working: NPAC Grading System

Name of associated NPAC project leaders: Nancy J. McCracken

List other NPAC activities you have worked on in the past which are not covered above:

Name of associated NPAC project leaders:

Type of research you expect to be working on for the next semester: Same as project assignments

(describe giving as much detail as possible)

Any expected absences during the academic year:

(please describe reason and give dates where possible)

Approvals: Nancy J. McCracken

(Take the printed form to these people for their signatures)

NPAC Project Leader: Nancy J. McCracken

Thesis Dissertation Director: Geoffrey C. Fox

Academic Advisor: Geoffrey C. Fox

NPAC Director: Geoffrey C. Fox

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