AYDIN ULAŞ
PERSONAL
Languages: English, Italian (B2)
Email: *********@*****.***
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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