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Education
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Mar 2015
Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP), PhD Thesis Award
Human Activity Recognition with Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Sept 2009
RFID Enhanced Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
B.Sc., Computer Engineering (with Honors), June 2004
Project: Secure Mobile Applications and Services Testbed
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
Work Experience
since 04/2015, Postdoc,
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), SLIDE, France
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range of AI tasks. The goal of my post-doc project is to train DNNs that are able to classify at a high throughput on low-power devices. To this end, I research for novel methods for training deep networks with constrained weights and neurons without compromising recognition accuracy. I use a combination of machine learning and optimization techniques together with approximate search methods to achieve high-performance, energy-efficient DNNs.
01/2009-03/2015 Research/Teaching assistant,
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, handled problem and lab sessions, met with students upon request, and graded all written work, including final exam papers.
since 07/2011 Co-Founder & Board-member,
Sentio Sports Analytics, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded an R&D company that specializes in machine vision for sports analytics to support data driven smart decision systems. Sentio is currently the official data provider for Turkish Premier league, covering more than 300 matches each year. Sentio has been recognized as “Best Entrepreneurs of the Year-2012” in IBM SmartCamp Turkey and recently awarded by French Tech Ticket acceleration program to become a French start-up.
Awards
- 2015 Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP) PhD Thesis Award 2015
- 2014 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) participation grant
- 2014 Nominated as a substitute MC Member for COST Action 1303
- 2014 International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Travel Grant for International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
- 2014 Bogazici University Foundation (BUVAK) Publication Support Grant
- 2012 Bogazici University Foundation (BUVAK) Summer School Scholarship
- 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist
- 2010 TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Publication Support Grant
- 2010 First Prize, YD2YD Student Project Competition
- 2009 Graduate Student Fellowship, TUBITAK
Academic Service
Organization
- Program Committee Member – PervasiveHealth 2016
- Local Chair – ICMI 2014 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
- Local Chair – PervasiveHealth 2015
Refereed Conferences and Workshops
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016)
- International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2016)
- International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE 2013)
- Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2015, 2016, 2017)
- European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2014)
- Human Behaviour Understanding (HBU 2011)
Refereed Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
- The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
- Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Mobile Networks and Applications
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
- Computer Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IET Science, Measurement & Technology
Project Involvement
BAP Bogazici University Research Fund Projects
- 2014-2016 Seamless Human Activity Recognition for Smart Environments
- 2011-2013 Activity Recognition using Wireless Body Area Networks
- 2010-2013 Active Learning based Human Activity Classification using Wireless
Sensor Networks - 2010-2011 Multimodal Wireless Sensor Networks for Elderly Care
- 2010-2011 Event Driven Tracking Patients with Epilepsy like Neurological Diseases
TTO Industry Projects
- 2011-2012 Intelligent Home Gateway, funded by Ericsson and cofunded by TUBITAK
- 2011-2012 Fall Detection Using Wearable Accelerometers, funded by Turk Telekom
EU European Union Projects
- 2013-2016 Ubi-Health: Exchange of Excellence in Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Address Healthcare Challenges
- 2014-2017 IC1303 AAPELE: Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments, ICT COST Action, MC Substitue Member
Dissemination
Workshop/Summer School Talks
- 2016 – 7e Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée (APVP’16) LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
- 2016 The Inaugural Paris Summit on Big Data Management – ParisBD 2016 Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
- 2014 – Winter School on Ubiquitous Computing INAOE, Puebla, Mexico
- 2012 – Human Activity and Vision Summer School (HAVSS) Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France
Invited Talks
- 2016 Deep Learning, Summer School on New Techniques in Machine Learning and Information Processing METU, Ankara, Turkey
- October 2015 – Introduction to Deep Learning, Grenoble Data Science MeetUp Grenoble, France
- May 2015 – Human Activity and Behaviour Recognition, UbiHealth Summer School Istanbul, Turkey
Attended Conferences
- 2017 IJCNN, Anchorage, Alaska, US
- 2015 ICML, Lille, France
- 2014 ICPR, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 ICMI, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2013 PervasiveHealth, Venice, Italy
- 2011 AmI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2010 Medicon, Chalkidiki, Greece
- 2010 IPSN, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2009 and 2011 SIU, Antalya, Turkey
Technical Skills
Development
Expert: Java, SQL (MySQL)
Experienced: SAS, MS SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL
Moderate: C/C++, Perl, MongoDb, Django, Apache Spark, Hadoop
Developed mostly RESTful web services, backend, data mining and analytics, server-side applications
Scientific Computing: Matlab, Torch/Lua, Python, R
Developed several scientific experiment frameworks and tools
Electronics
Arduino, RFID, sensors
Tools & Software
SAS E-miner, IBM modeler, Knime, Weka
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Education
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Mar 2015
Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP), PhD Thesis Award
Human Activity Recognition with Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Sept 2009
RFID Enhanced Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
B.Sc., Computer Engineering (with Honors), June 2004
Project: Secure Mobile Applications and Services Testbed
Supervisor: Cem Ersoy
Work Experience
since 04/2015, Postdoc,
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), SLIDE, France
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range of AI tasks. The goal of my post-doc project is to train DNNs that are able to classify at a high throughput on low-power devices. To this end, I research for novel methods for training deep networks with constrained weights and neurons without compromising recognition accuracy. I use a combination of machine learning and optimization techniques together with approximate search methods to achieve high-performance, energy-efficient DNNs.
01/2009-03/2015 Research/Teaching assistant,
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, handled problem and lab sessions, met with students upon request, and graded all written work, including final exam papers.
since 07/2011 Co-Founder & Board-member,
Sentio Sports Analytics, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded an R&D company that specializes in machine vision for sports analytics to support data driven smart decision systems. Sentio is currently the official data provider for Turkish Premier league, covering more than 300 matches each year. Sentio has been recognized as “Best Entrepreneurs of the Year-2012” in IBM SmartCamp Turkey and recently awarded by French Tech Ticket acceleration program to become a French start-up.
Awards
- 2015 Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP) PhD Thesis Award 2015
- 2014 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) participation grant
- 2014 Nominated as a substitute MC Member for COST Action 1303
- 2014 International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Travel Grant for International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
- 2014 Bogazici University Foundation (BUVAK) Publication Support Grant
- 2012 Bogazici University Foundation (BUVAK) Summer School Scholarship
- 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist
- 2010 TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Publication Support Grant
- 2010 First Prize, YD2YD Student Project Competition
- 2009 Graduate Student Fellowship, TUBITAK
Academic Service
Organization
- Program Committee Member – PervasiveHealth 2016
- Local Chair – ICMI 2014 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
- Local Chair – PervasiveHealth 2015
Refereed Conferences and Workshops
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016)
- International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2016)
- International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE 2013)
- Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2015, 2016, 2017)
- European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2014)
- Human Behaviour Understanding (HBU 2011)
Refereed Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
- The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
- Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Mobile Networks and Applications
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
- Computer Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IET Science, Measurement & Technology
Project Involvement
BAP Bogazici University Research Fund Projects
- 2014-2016 Seamless Human Activity Recognition for Smart Environments
- 2011-2013 Activity Recognition using Wireless Body Area Networks
- 2010-2013 Active Learning based Human Activity Classification using Wireless
Sensor Networks - 2010-2011 Multimodal Wireless Sensor Networks for Elderly Care
- 2010-2011 Event Driven Tracking Patients with Epilepsy like Neurological Diseases
TTO Industry Projects
- 2011-2012 Intelligent Home Gateway, funded by Ericsson and cofunded by TUBITAK
- 2011-2012 Fall Detection Using Wearable Accelerometers, funded by Turk Telekom
EU European Union Projects
- 2013-2016 Ubi-Health: Exchange of Excellence in Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Address Healthcare Challenges
- 2014-2017 IC1303 AAPELE: Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments, ICT COST Action, MC Substitue Member
Dissemination
Workshop/Summer School Talks
- 2016 – 7e Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée (APVP’16) LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
- 2016 The Inaugural Paris Summit on Big Data Management – ParisBD 2016 Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
- 2014 – Winter School on Ubiquitous Computing INAOE, Puebla, Mexico
- 2012 – Human Activity and Vision Summer School (HAVSS) Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France
Invited Talks
- 2016 Deep Learning, Summer School on New Techniques in Machine Learning and Information Processing METU, Ankara, Turkey
- October 2015 – Introduction to Deep Learning, Grenoble Data Science MeetUp Grenoble, France
- May 2015 – Human Activity and Behaviour Recognition, UbiHealth Summer School Istanbul, Turkey
Attended Conferences
- 2017 IJCNN, Anchorage, Alaska, US
- 2015 ICML, Lille, France
- 2014 ICPR, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 ICMI, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2013 PervasiveHealth, Venice, Italy
- 2011 AmI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2010 Medicon, Chalkidiki, Greece
- 2010 IPSN, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2009 and 2011 SIU, Antalya, Turkey
Technical Skills
Development
Expert: Java, SQL (MySQL)
Experienced: SAS, MS SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL
Moderate: C/C++, Perl, MongoDb, Django, Apache Spark, Hadoop
Developed mostly RESTful web services, backend, data mining and analytics, server-side applications
Scientific Computing: Matlab, Torch/Lua, Python, R
Developed several scientific experiment frameworks and tools
Electronics
Arduino, RFID, sensors
Tools & Software
SAS E-miner, IBM modeler, Knime, Weka
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