Research Areas
Language technologies: Natural language processing, statistical language modelling
Text processing: Information extraction & retrieval, Web mining
Speech recognition: Speech recognition and text-to-speech generation for Turkish
Document recognition: Segmentation, recognition (OCR), detection and extraction
of text in images
Data mining and databases: Applications of data mining to text processing;
active & mobile databases
Biometrics: signature, fingerprint, hand verification
Bioinformatics: computational approaches to protein folding
Cryptography and Security: cryptographic hardware development, wireless system
security, public-key infrastructures (PKIs), e-mail and e-commerce security,
mathematical aspects of public-key cryptography
Verification: Hardware/software co-verification tool design and implementation
Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality:
Information Visualization, Augmented Reality, Mobile Graphics,
Cultural Heritage
Research Interests By Faculty
Selim Balcisoy ,
balcisoy@sabanciuniv.edu +90-215 483 9569
Education: Ph.D in Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, 2001
Experience: Nokia Research, USA 2001-2004
Areas of Interest: Information Visualization, Augmented Reality, Mobile
Graphics, Cultural Heritage
Kemal Inan
, Dean, inan@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9500
Education: Ph.D. Electrical Eng., University of California, Berkeley
Experience: Univ. Of California, Berkeley (USA); Chairman of the Engineering
Department at METU
Areas of Interest: Theory of Computation; Formal Models of Digital Systems
and Verification
Albert Levi , levi@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9563
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey,
1999 Experience: Bogazici University, Research Asst and Instructor,
1991 ? 1999; Oregon State University (USA), Visiting Faculty, 1999 ? 2001;
rTrust Technologies (USA), Consultant, 2000.
Areas of Interest: Information and Network Security; Certificate Systems and
Public Key Infrastructures; E-commerce Security; E-mail Security; Cryptography;
Computer Networks
Kemal Oflazer , oflazer@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9532
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 1987
Experience: Formative Technologies (USA), 1986-1989; Bilkent University, 1989-2000;
New Mexico State University (USA), 1998-1999
Areas of Interest: Language Engineering: Finite State Methods, Computational
Morphology, Statistical Language Modeling, Pronunciation Modeling, Parsing
Erkay Savas , erkays@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9606
Education: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University,
USA, 2000.
Experience: Tubitak UEKAE, Senior Researcher, 1993-1997; Oregon State
University (USA), Research Assistant, 1997-2000; rTrust (ICESoft) Technologies(USA),
Development Manager 2000-2002.
Areas of Interest: Cryptography and data security; Computer arithmetic; High
performance computing; Distributed computing
Yucel Saygin , ysaygin@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9576
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2001
Experience: Purdue University (USA), Visiting Scholar, 1999-2000
Areas of Interest: Data Mining; Mobile Computing and Data Management; Active
Database Systems
Berrin Yanikoglu , berrin@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9528
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA, 1993
Experience: Rockefeller University (USA), 1993-1994; Xerox Imaging Systems
(USA), 1994-1996; IBM Almaden Research Center (USA), 1996-1998; IoFlex Inc.,
(USA), 1999-2000
Areas of Interest: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Document Recognition;
Biometric Security; Bioinformatics
Husnu Yenigun , yenigun@sabanciuniv.edu +90-216-483 9544
Education: Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical
University, Turkey, 2000
Experience: Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
1992-1997; Bell Laboratories, Doctoral Studies, 1997-2000
Areas of Interest: Concurrency theory; Formal methods; Hardware/software verification
Recent Sponsored Projects
- Developing a Turkish WordNet within the BalkaNet Consortium, 2001-2004,
supported by EU 5th Framework IST
- Unified Electronic Lexicon of Turkish,
with Prof. Sharon Inkelas of UC Berkeley,
supported by TUBITAK and NSF, 2000 ? 2004
- Development of Finite State
Light Parser for Turkish, Supported by TUBITAK, 2000 -- 2002.
- TU-LANGUAGE:
Developing Computational Foundations and Applications for Turkish Language
Processing, Supported by NATO Science for Stability Program,
1994-1998.
- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Turkish
, supported by COST 278 Scheme
- Large Vocabulary Text-to-Speech for Turkish
- Large Vocabulary Handwritten/Machine
Print Document Recognition for Turkish, supported by TUBITAK
- CODMIME, Confidentiality
of Data against Data Mining Methods, supported by EU 5th Framework IST
FET
- Segmentation and Recognition of Turkish Documents, Supported by
TUBITAK, 2000-2002
- Computer Aided Reconstruction in Archeology, Supported by TUBITAK 2005-2008
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