intend to do intership June 15, 2001 – September 15, 2001 (for 3 months)

    Alper Tugay MIZRAK
     

E-mail:
Internet:

amizrak@cs.ucsd.edu
www.cs.ucsd.edu/~amizrak

Date of Birth:

04/08/1978

Address:

4859 Cole St. Apt#37

Place of Birth:

Karabük, TURKEY

  

San Diego CA 92117
   

Telephone:

+1-858-2701615

EDUCATION

    

09/00-…

 

University of California, San Diego
   

Computer Science and Engineering, 1st year Ph.D. student

09/96-06/00

 

Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY
    Computer Engineering, B.Sc
Cumulative GPA : 3.68
GPA of CS courses : 3.90
Rank in CS department : 2nd among 60

09/90-06/96

  

Karabük Anatolian High School, Karabük, TURKEY
    Cumulative GPA : 4.94/5.00
 Rank : 1st among 72

INTERESTED IN

    
       Object Oriented Programming
   Database Management Systems
   HTML and CGI programming
   Network and Distributed System programming
   AI searching algorithms
   Machine learning techniques

COMPUTER

    
   

Languages:  C, C++, Perl, Delphi, Java, Visual Cafe, Turbo Pascal, SQL, HTML, phtml
   

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows (NT, '98, 2000)

EXPERIENCE

    

09/00-…

  

University of California, San Diego
   

Research Assistant

   

Working in the Smart project at the Center for Magnetic Recording Research. Data mining project for reliable magnetic recording devices.

06/00-09/00

  

Bilkent Computer Center, Ankara, TURKEY
   

Software Engineer

   

Worked as programmer in a project for the automation of purchasing goods for university departments and university budget. Designed and implemented in Delphi, phtml. Used MSsql and Oracle SQL Servers.

06/99-08/99

  

Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY
   

Intern
   

Worked with Prof. H. Altay Guvenir on Data Mining on Web Server Logs. Analysed, designed, implemented in Perl. The results are being published on the Internet updated continuously:
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/AcLogAnalyzer/

06/98-07/98

  

Ministry of Finance, Republic of Turkey, Ankara, TURKEY
   

Intern
   

Worked in General Directorate of Republic Accounts. Using Oracle Database Management Systems designed forms and prepared reports.

PROJECTS

  

   

1. Automation of purchasing goods for university departments and their budgets:
     Database Management System, Bilkent Computer Center.
     Delphi, phtml, MSsql and Oracle SQL Servers.
   

2. Named Entity Extraction: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning,
     Teamwork 2 people, as a senior project with Assoc. Prof. Kemal Oflazer.
   

3. Sentence Segmentation System: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning,
     Teamwork 2 people, as a senior project with Assoc. Prof. Kemal Oflazer.
   

4. Data Mining on Web Server Logs: Data Mining, Machine Learning,
     as a summer training with Assoc. Prof. Halil Altay Guvenir. Perl

   

5. Multi-Threaded Cooperative Cached Proxy Web Servers System: as a project of
     Distributed Systems and Algorithms course, Teamwork 4 people. C
   

6. Multi-Threaded Proxy Web Server: as a project of Distributed Systems and Algorithms
     course, Teamwork 4 people. C
   

7. Multi-Threaded Web Server: as a project of Computer Networks course. Java
   

8. Parser for Java: as a project of Compiler Design course, Teamwork 3 people. C
   

9. Lexical Analyser for Java: as a project of Compiler Design course, Teamwork 3 people. C
   

10. DMS (Database Management System) for Basketball League: as a project of
     Database Management System course, Teamwork 2 people. Delphi
   

11. DMS for Travel Agency on Network: as a project of Object Oriented Programming,
     Teamwork 5 people. Java
   

12. Compressing and Decompressing text files with Huffman Algorithm:
     as a project of Fundamental Structures of Computers. C
   

13. Solitaire game

ACTIVITIES

    

1999-00

 

Instructor, Bilkent Public Services Computer Literacy Courses, Yeşilöz High School

1998-99

  

Instructor, Bilkent Public Services Computer Literacy Courses, Nahit Mentese High School

1997-98

  

General Secratary, Fantasy and Fiction Club

1996-97

  

Active Member, Computer Club

1996-97

  

Captain, Bilkent Fencing (foil) Team
   

HOBBIES: fencing, fitness, soccer, table tennis, fishing, cinema, computer games

HONORS

    

2000

 

Ranked 2nd, in Computer Engineering Dept, Bilkent University

1999-00

  

Certificate of Acknowledgment, Bilkent University Public Services

1996-99

  

Full Scholarship, including tuition, stipend, and accommodation, Bilkent University

1996-99

  

Dean's List, received High Honour Certificates, Bilkent University

1996

  

Scholarship, for undergraduate study abroad, Turkish Republic Ministry of Education

1996

  

Ranked 163rd, in Turkish Central University Entrance Exam, among roughly 1.500.000

1996

  

Ranked 1st , Karabük Anatolian High School, among 72

LANGUAGE

    
   
  • Advanced English
  • Beginner Spanish
  • Turkish (Native language)

REFERENCES

  

Available upon request.

Charles ELKAN
UCSD

Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., Computer science, Cornell. Automated reasoning, machine learning, database systems, expert systems, computational biology, data mining.

Mehmet BARAY
Bilkent University
(Chairman)

Professor
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer engineering education.

H. Altay GÜVENİR
Bilkent University
(Vice Chairman)

Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Information Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1987. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, problem solving strategies, intelligent tutoring systems

Kemal OFLAZER
Bilkent University

Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1987. Computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning of natural language.