Assistant High School

Serhat Sel uk BUCAK

Curriculum Vitae

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http://www.cse.msu.edu/~bucakser/

Education

(Sept. 2008 to present)

Michigan State University

PhD candidate in Computer Science

COURSEWORK: Computer Vision, Data Mining, Machine Learning,

Recognition by Machine, Designs & Theory of Algorithms, Advanced

Computer Networks and Communications

(Sept. 2006 June 2008)

Istanbul Technical University

MSc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (GPA: 3.83/4.00)

COURSEWORK: Pattern Recognition, Video Processing, Detection and

Estimation Theory, Probability and stochastic Processes, Digital

Communication Theory, Information Theory, Statistical Signal Processing,

Numerical Methods in Optimization

(Sept. 2002 June 2006)

Istanbul Technical University

BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering (GPA: 3.24/4.00)

Awards and Fellowships

Google scholar award for ICCV 2009 (JPY 50,000)

Ranked in the top 50 (17th and 49th) among 105,500 applicants twice in the

Turkish Nationwide Graduate Education Exam (2005 and 2007)

Michigan State University FS08 Fellowship (2008, $2,000)

Inanc High School full scholarship (1995-2002, $84,000)

TUBITAK-BIDEB Scholarship for Graduate Education in Turkey (2006-2008)

TEV fellowship for Undergraduate Education (2002-2006)

Istanbul Technical University Merit Scholarship (2002)

Ranked in the top 30 twice in the Turkish National Antalya Math Olympics

(2000 and 2001)

Computer Skills

Matlab, C

Languages

Turkish (Native)

English (Fluent)

Research Experience

MSU Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Lab.

Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof. Anil K. Jain (Sept. 2008 - present)

Working on multi-label learning algorithm with large number of classes.

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Developing efficient multiple kernel learning algorithms

Istanbul Tech. Uni. Multimedia Signal Proc. & Pattern Recog. Lab (2006-2008)

Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof. Bilge G nsel

Developed nonnegative matrix factorization based incremental algorithms.

Participated in the audio fingerprinting project sponsored by TUBITAK.

Publications

Journal Papers

1. S.S. Bucak and B. Gunsel, Incremental Subspace Learning via Non-negative

Matrix Factorization, Pattern Recognition, vol 42(5), pp. 788-797, May 2009.

Selected Conference Papers

1. V. Sindhwani, S.S. Bucak, J. Hu, A. Mojsilovic, One Class Matrix

Completion with Low Density Factorizations, IEEE International Conference

on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), Sydney, Australia, December 14-17, 2010

2. S.S. Bucak, R. Jin, A.K. Jain, "Multi-label Multiple Kernel Learning by

Stochastic Approximation: Application to Visual Object Recognition," NIPS,

Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 6-9, 2010.

3. S.S. Bucak, P.K. Mallapragada, R. Jin and A.K. Jain, Multi-label Learning

with Many Classes, ICCV, Kyoto, Japan, 2009.

4. S.S. Bucak and B. Gunsel," Incremental Clustering via Nonnegative Matrix

Factorization," International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),

Florida, USA, 2008.

5. S.S. Bucak and B. Gunsel, " Video Content Representation by Incremental

Non-negative Matrix Factorization, " IEEE International Conference on Image

Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, 16-19 September 2007.

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