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Education:

                     Ph.D. Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA (1993). Thesis: Segmentation and Recognition of Offline Cursive Handwriting.
                    
B.S. and B.A. Computer Engineering, Mathematics (double major), Bogazici University, Turkey (1988)
                    
Galatasaray High-School, Istanbul, Turkey (1983)

Experience:

Fall 2000 - present: 

Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Assoc. Professor in Computer Science and Engineering program.

1999-2000: 

IoFlex, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Design and development of image processing and printing/publishing automation software

1996-1998: 

IBM Almaden Research Center: Various aspects of document segmentation and recognition problem

1994-1996: 

Xerox Imaging Systems, MA (ScanSoft): Automatic document segmentation and benchmarking

Fall 1993 - 1994: 

Rockefeller University, USA: Postdoc - Statistical approaches to understanding the human visual system

Research:  I work in the general area of Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision. My current research interests are:

Biometrics:

Online, offline signature verification (our system has won the first place at the 1st International Signature Verification Competition, SVC 2004).

Fingerprint verification;

Biometric Cryptosystems; Privacy in biometrics

Handwriting Recog. &

Document Analysis:

Online and offline handwriting recognition;

Document segmentation and layout analysis

Computational

Biology:

Computational approaches to protein folding problem

 

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