AYDIN ULAŞ

PERSONAL

Languages: English, Italian (B2)

Email: acbl5u@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +90-533-***-**-**

EXPERIENCE

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Solution Architect

Software Defined Networks, OpenFlow

Internet TV Platform Design and Implementation

Recommendation Engines for Internet TV, Hadoop, Apache Taste

Targeted Mobile Advertising Platform

2009-2012 University of Verona Verona, Italy

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lecturer: Information recognition and retrieval for bioinformatics (2010-2011 II)

Schizophrenia classification using MRI images

Researching machine learning, pattern recognition and image processing

Consultant

Academic consultant for RTCO İletişim ve Bilgi Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş.

Implementation of a machine learning system for Telecom Industry in JAVA

2004-2009 Boğaziçi University İstanbul, Turkey

Research and Teaching Assistant

Researching machine learning, pattern recognition and statistical combination of classifiers

Maintenance of web sites of assisted courses (Apache, PHP and MySQL)

Assisted Courses: Computer Architecture, Cryptography, Grid Computing, Software Engineering

Lectured freshman C classes

Led software teams of computer engineering students (top ten in SCORE contest of ICSE 2009)

Auditor

COBIT Based IT Audit of National Banks

Expert in Court of Peace

Internet Banking, Software Piracy

2003-2004 Argela Technologies İstanbul, Turkey

Software Architect

Distributed message oriented middleware development using C, C++ and JAVA

Media gateway control system (MGC) and SS7 signaling protocol development (MAP, TCAP) development

Highly available telecom software development

Load sharing and distribution algorithms development

Java messaging system development

2002-2003 Oksijen Technologies İstanbul, Turkey

Software Engineer

Distributed message oriented system development in C, C++ and JAVA RMI

Media gateway control system (MGC) development for SoftSwitch project

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1999-2002 Boğaziçi University İstanbul, Turkey

Research and Teaching Assistant

Researching machine learning and data mining

Data mining of customer transactions of one of the largest supermarket chains in Turkey

Maintenance of department web server (ISS) and database server (MSSQL)

Maintenance of web sites of assisted courses (IIS, ASP and MSSQL & Apache, PHP and MySQL)

Assisted Courses: Computer Architecture, Cryptography, Object Oriented Programming, Software

Engineering, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Algorithm Analysis, Digital Design, Database Systems

Lectured freshman C and Pascal classes

Consultant for Done Information Systems (www.donetr.com)

Projects

VestelNet WAP site

Chatmeydani.com

YKB Culture and Arts

Voluntary (1999-2007)

Development and maintenance of Mithat Alam Film Center (www.mafm.boun.edu.tr) web page and software

(VB, ASP and MSSQL)

EDUCATION

2008 Boğaziçi University İstanbul, Turkey

Degree: PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

Dissertation: Incremental Construction of Cost-Conscious Classifier Ensembles

Advisor: Prof. Ethem Alpaydın

2001 Boğaziçi University İstanbul, Turkey

Degree: MS in Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis: Market Basket Analysis for Data Mining

Advisor: Prof. Ethem Alpaydın

1999 Boğaziçi University İstanbul, Turkey

Degree: BS in Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis: Web based DB application using ASP and MSSQL

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Zeki Bayram

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA, Matlab, Python, PHP, ASP, Visual Basic, Pascal, Basic experience

of C#.NET, JSP and Prolog,

Administered and used MSSQL and MySQL databases

Software Process and Engineering Knowledge: Rational Clearcase, UML, Object Oriented Design, Agile

Programming, Unit testing

Tools: Eclipse, Visual Studio, Bugzilla, SVN, CVS

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

Telecommunication Protocols: GSM, MAP, TCAP, MGCP, Megaco

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SUMMER SCHOOLS AND COURSES

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python, 04-08 October 2010, Trento, Italy

Social Signal Processing: State of the Art and Prospects, July 2010, Sestri Levante, Italy

Lecturers: Daniel Gatica-Perez and Alessandro Vinciarelli

PRTools, 27-29 June 2005, Sabancı University, İstanbul

Lecturers: Robert Duin and Dick de Ridder

ACADEMIC

Journal Papers & Book Chapters

Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella, Paolo

Brambilla, “Analysis of Brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) Scans for the Diagnosis of Mental Illness,” Similarity-

Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition, ISBN: 978-1-4471-5627-7, Springer London, pp:247-287, 2013.

Manuele Bicego, Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Alessandro Perina, Vittorio Murino, André F. T. Martins,

Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, “Combining Information Theoretic Kernels with Generative

Embeddings for Classification”, Neurocomputing, Vol. 101, pp:161-169, 2013.

Aydın Ulaş, Olcay T. Yıldız and Ethem Alpaydın, “Cost-Conscious Comparison of Supervised Learning

Algorithms over Multiple Data Sets,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp: 1772-1781, 2012.

Aydın Ulaş, Olcay T. Yıldız and Ethem Alpaydın, “Eigenclassifiers for Combining Correlated Classifiers,”

Information Sciences, Vol. 187, pp: 109-120, 2012.

Aydın Ulaş, Robert P. W. Duin, Umberto Castellani, Marco Loog, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino,

Marcella Bellani, Stefania Cerruti, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla, “Dissimilarity -based Detection of

Schizophrenia”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Tech nology, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp: 179-192, 2011.

Aydın Ulaş, Murat Semerci, Olcay T. Yıldız and Ethem Alpaydın, “Incremental Construction of Classifier

and Discriminant Ensembles,” Information Sciences, Vol. 179, No. 9, pp: 1298-1318, 2009.

Berk Gökberk, Helin Dutağacı, Aydın Ulaş, Lale Akarun and Bülent Sankur, “Representation Plurality and

Decision Level Fusion for 3D Face Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B:

Cybernetics, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp: 155-173, 2008.

Conference Papers

Marco San Biagio, Aydın Ulaş, Marco Crocco, Marco Cristani, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, “A

Multiple Kernel Learning Approach to Multi-Modal Pedestrian Classification”, International Conference on

Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), pp:2412-2415, November 11-15, 2012, Tsukaba, Japan.

Aydın Ulaş, Mehmet Gönen, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella, Paolo

Brambilla, “A Localized MKL method for brain classification with known intra -class variability”,

International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging ( MLMI 2012), pp:152-159, October 1,

2012, Nice, France.

Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla,

“Biomarker evaluation by Multiple Kernel Learning for Schizophrenia detection”, International Workshop

on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI 2012), pp:89-92, July 2-4, 2012, London, UK.

Manuele Bicego, Aydın Ulaş, Peter Schüffler, Umberto Castellani, Pasquale Mirtuono, Vittorio Murino,

André Martins, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, “Renal Cancer Cell Classification Using

Generative Embeddings and Information Theoretic Kernels”, PRIB 2011, LNBI Vol: 7036, pp: 75-86,

November 2-4, Delft, The Netherlands.

Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla, “Heat

Diffusion Based Dissimilarity Analysis for Schizophrenia Classification ”, PRIB 2011, LNBI Vol: 7036, pp:

306-317, November 2-4, Delft, The Netherlands.

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Umberto Castellani, Aydın Ulaş, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla,

“Selecting scales by Multiple Kernel Learning for shape diffusion analysis ”, MICCAI 2011, workshop on

“Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy”, pp: 148-158, September 18-22, Toronto, Canada.

Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Pasquale Mirtuono, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino, Stefania Cerruti,

Marcella Bellani, Manfredo Atzori, Gianluca Rambaldelli, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla, “Multimodal

Schizophrenia Detection by Multiclassification Analysis”, CIARP 2011, LNCS Vol: 7042, pp: 491-498,

November 15-18, Pucón, Chile.

Mehmet Gönen, Aydın Ulaş, Peter Schüffler, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, “Combining Data

Sources Nonlinearly for Cell Nucleus Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma”, 1st International Workshop on

Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis, 2011, LNCS Vol: 7005, pp: 250-260, September 28-30, Venice, Italy.

Aydın Ulaş, Peter Schüffler, Manuele Bicego, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, “Hybrid Generative-

Discriminative Nucleus Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma ”, 1st International Workshop on Similarity-Based

Pattern Analysis, 2011, LNCS Vol: 7005, pp:77-88, September 28-30, Venice, Italy.

Peter Schüffler, Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, “A Multiple Kernel Learning Algorithm

for Cell Nucleus Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma”, ICIAP 2011, September 14-16, Ravenna, Italy.

Aydın Ulaş, Robert P. W. Duin, Umberto Castellani, Marco Loog, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino,

Marcella Bellani, Stefania Cerruti, Michele Tansella, Paolo Brambilla, “Dissimilarity -based Detection of

Schizophrenia”, ICPR 2010 workshop on "Brain Decoding: Pattern Recognition Challenges in FMRI Neuroimaging",

pp:32-35, August 22, İstanbul, Turkey.

Aydın Ulaş, Olcay Taner Yıldız, “An Incremental Model Selection Algorithm Based on Cross-Validation for

Finding the Architecture of a Hidden Markov Model on Hand Gesture Dat a Sets”, ICMLA 2009, pp:170-

177, December 13-15, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Aydın Ulaş, Ethem Alpaydın, Nasuhi Sönmez and Ataman Kalkan, “Market Basket Analysis for Data

Mining,'' Bilişim 2001, September 04-07, İstanbul, Turkey.

Supported Research Projects

SIGMONA, SDN Concept in Generalized Mobile Network Architectures, Celtic-Plus

YakamOS, An Openflow Controller, TUBİTAK/TEYDEB

SIMBAD, Similarity Based Pattern Recognition, FP7/Fet-Open

TUBİTAK, Cross Validation for Model Selection in Machine Learning, 104E079

Boğaziçi University Research Fund, Cost-Conscious Combination of Classifiers and Representations,

05HA101

Biosecure Network of Excellence (NoE) European 6th Framework Project, Development of 2D/3D face

recognition/authentication reference systems

State Planning Organization of Turkey, Perceptual Human Computer Interaction, 03K120250

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition

Data Mining, Classifier Combination

Recommendation Systems, Pattern Recognition for Telecommunications

Churn Management and Prevention

Computational Biology, Bioinformatics

Kernel Methods

Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

TÖTİAD, IAPR

Perceptual Intelligence Lab (Π-Lab), Boğaziçi University

VIPS Lab, University of Verona

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Reviewed papers for

Information Sciences Journal

IEEE TNN

IEEE Cybernetics Part B

The Computer Journal

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