Bulent Tastan

cell: 407-***-****

abpavn@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.bulenttastan.net

***** ******* **. *** *** Orlando, FL 32826

OBJECTIVE

A position as a software developer allowing me to use my skills in the field of Computer Science.

SKILLS

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Probabilistic Robotics, Learning by Demonstration

Programming Languages: Matlab, C/C++, Perl, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, C#, Prolog, Scheme

Development: Software, XNA Game, Web, Machine Learning applications

EDUCATION

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, (expected) May, 2013

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Masters in Computer Science, May, 2009

Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Computer Engineering, June, 2007

EXPERIENCE

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Graduate Research Assistant, Aug, 2008 - present

Performing research in AI, Machine Learning and Probabilistic Robotics for path prediction and learning by

demonstration.

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Aug, 2007 - Aug, 2008

Teaching labs and grading for C programming and operating systems classes.

PUBLICATIONS

"Learning Motion Prediction Models for Opponent Interception" Bulent Tastan, David Chang and Gita

Sukthankar. Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. 2012. (Best poster).

"Learning Policies for First Person Shooter Games Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning" Bulent Tastan and Gita

Sukthankar. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment. 2011. pp. 85--90.

"Leveraging Human Behavior Models to Improve Path Prediction and Tracking in Indoor Environments." Bulent

Tastan* and Gita Sukthankar. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 2011. vol. 7, pp. 319--330.

"Agent Assistance for Multi-robot Control (Extended Abstract)." Bennie Lewis, Bulent Tastan, and Gita Sukthankar.

Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 2010. pp. 1505--1506.

"Exploiting Human Steering Models for Path Prediction." Bulent Tastan and Gita Sukthankar. Proceedings of the

International Conference on Information Fusion. 2009. pp. 1722-1729.

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