Assistant Engineering

BURAK UZKENT

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Stratford, CT 06614, USA Email: abpnn4@r.postjobfree.com

abpnn4@r.postjobfree.com

Country of Citizenship: Turkey Website: http://www.burakuzkent.com

M.S. Department o f Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA, 2011,

Thesis Title: Non-speech environmental sound classification with a new set of features

B.S. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir,

Turkey, 2009 Thesis Title: Autonomous Parallel Parking of Non holonomic Vehicles

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, C T, USA, 2009-2011

- Developing modified mel frequency cepstrum coefficients to improve the efficiency,

reliability of audio surveillance systems.

- Designed a n automatic environmental noise classifier based on fuzzy logic type 1 system

by using MATLAB fuzzy logic toolbox.

- Designed environmental non-speech sound classifier based on support vector machines and

k-means clustering by using MATLAB software.

- Designed an audio surveillance system based on support vector machines.

- Investigated on creating a better feature sets for a better classification, identification of

noise, speech, environmental sounds such as modifying mfcc mel frequency cepstrum

coefficients.

- Used neural networks and support vector machines to compare the mel frequency

cepstrum coefficients and newly generated pitch-range based features.

- Studied on neural networks in the pattern recognition class in Fall 2009 semester.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2009 spring

semester

- Designed an autonomous parallel parking method for non-holonomic vehicles by using

MATLAB software (Undergraduate thesis).

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA, 2009-2011

- Assisted and guided students in Audio Processing Laboratory class in Fall 2010

semester (TMS320VC5510 DSP)

- Assisted and guided students in Digital Signal Processing Laboratory class in Fall 2010

semester (TMS320VC6713 DSP)

- Assisted and guided students on how to use MATLAB software in Biomedical Image

Processing class in Spring 2010 semester

- Assisted and guided students in Digital Signal Processing class in Fall 2009

semester.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2009 spring

semester

- Taught The F undamentals o f C ontrol S ystems L aboratory c ourse a nd g raded

student reports in spring 2009 semester.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

- Graduate Assistant University of Bridgeport, CT, USA, 2010-present

Doing research on Pattern Recognition, Surveillance Systems, Machine Learning

Assisting Audio Processing Laboratory and Digital Signal Processing Laboratory classes

- Dean s Assistant University of Bridgeport, CT, USA, 2009-2010

Conducted Research on Noise-Environmental Sound Classification, Pattern Recognition

Assisted Digital Signal Processing and Biomedical Image Processing classes

- Summer Intern ISBIR, Generator Factory, Balikesir, Turkey, 2008

- Summer Intern BEST, Transformer Manufacturer, Balikesir, Turkey, 2007

PUBLICATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING JOURNALS

- B. Uzkent, O. Parlaktuna Autonomous Parallel Parking of Non-holonomic Vehicles

International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA), 2010 (Accepted/ In press)

- B. Uzkent, B. Barkana, J. Yang Noise Classification Based on Fuzzy Logic, Expert Systems

with Applications (Elsevier), Volume 38, Issue 7, Pp: 8751-8755, July 2011

- B. Uzkent, B. Barkana Environmental Source Classification Based on SVMs and K- means

clustering, Acoustics Applied Systems (Elsevier), 2010 (Accepted/ In press)

- B. Uzkent, B. Barkana, H. Cevikalp Comparison of MFCC and Pitch Range (PR) Feature

Sets in Sound Recognition International Journal of Innovative Computing (Submitted)

PUBLICATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

- B. Uzkent, B. Barkana Pitch Range-Based Feature Extraction for Audio Surveillance Systems,

8th International Conference on Information Technology:New Generations (ITNG),April

11-13, 2011

- B. Uzkent, B.D. Barkana, I. Saricicek Normal and Abnormal Non-Speech Audio Event

Detection Using MFCC and PR-Based Feature Sets, IEEE International Conference on

Management Science and Information Engineering (ICMSIE), 17 Dec - 19 Dec 2010

(Invitational Paper)

- B. Uzkent, B.D. Barkana, I. Saricicek "Performances of the ANN, SVM, and K-means clustering

methods recognizing different environmental sounds", 24th European Conference on

Operational Research, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010

- B. Uzkent, B . Barkana Pitch Range -Based Environmental Noise C lassifier, A SEE Northeast

Section Conference, May 7, 2010 May 8, 2010 (Poster)

- B. Uzkent, O. Parlaktuna Autonomous Parallel Parking of Non-holonomic Vehicles, 13th

National Conference in ODTU(Middle East Technical University) Turkey, 2009.

HONORS & AWARDS

- Full Research Assistantship (covering credits tuiton and $10 000 stipend for the first year)

during the M.S degree, Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA, 2009-2011.

Only 5 students in the University of Bridgeport has been awarded with this assistantship.

- Graduated with the 3rd highest gpa of the undergraduate class at Eskisehir

Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2009

- Fulbright opportunity grants for travel and visa expenses for M.S. degree in USA

- Four time high honor and four time honor student during B.S. degree in Eskisehir

Osmangazi University, Turkey

- 2007 Fall semester Erasmus student in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

SKILLS

Languages: English (Advanced),

German (Beginner)

Software & Programming: C/C++/C #, MATLAB, JavaScript, ASP.NET-ASP.NET MVC, TMS320VC5510

DSP & TMS320VC6713 DSP (CSS 5510 & 6713), HTML, Windows

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server

CONFERENCES PARTICIPATED

- Participated in the Engineering Speakers' Series conference on encouraging Stratford high

school students to study engineering.

- Participated i n t he 2 0 1 0 A m eri can S ocie ty f o r E n gin ee rin g E ducatio n N or th eas t

Section conference and delivered a poster.

- Will participate in the 8th International Conference on Information Technology: New

Generations (ITNG) in April 11-13, 2011 which will be held in Las Vegas

ACTIVITIES & HOBBIES

- A member of the University of Bridgeport Ballroom Dance Club

- A former member of the mentorship program of Erasmus students incoming to Eskisehir,

Turkey

- Playing basketball and football, ballroom dancing, going to cinema, listening every kind of

music and travelling are some of my hobbies

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